It's all right every time

Music’s like the weather. Some days you don’t notice it. Overplayed songs feel like that. You don’t pay attention to them anymore, or the songs don’t seize you the way they once did.

“What exactly happens inside our brains that makes a song lose its magic?” So asks Kashmira Gander in The Independent. “Neuroscientists believe that our brains go through two stages when we listen to a piece of music that gives us the chills,” she writes. “The caudate nucleus in the brain anticipates the build-up of...