Why does BH’s music feel like crack?
This is a phenomenon that pretty much is exclusive to Beach House for me and has been a “thing” since I was like 16 (for reference im turning 25 this year). No other band/artist has ever made consecutive songs that can get stuck in my head on loop for what could be months or even years in some cases. The only way I can describe it is like i have a literal ear worm or something man idk. It goes beyond just having a song stuck in my head at this point. I genuinely can’t fathom why their music latches onto me the way it does.
For example, ever since I heard Turtle Island for the first time in high school back in 2019 I’m not exaggerating when I say I’ve probably thought of that song once a day or at least every other day since then. I might hear a song that initially I don’t care much for, but then eons later I’ll wake up and it’s the first thing on my mind in the morning. I don’t even have to hear the song recently for it to happen. Then from there I can’t stop listening to it. Something strange happened this year and all of a sudden Home Again, Heart of Chambers, Beyond Love, and Days of Candy are being heavily played in my rotation after years of literally thinking nothing of them. I stayed with my sister in Seattle for a weekend and for no reason I just woke up on an air mattress on her living room floor at 6am with the end of You Came to Me rattling around my brain after spending years viewing that song as a skip. If there’s a Beach House song I don’t care for, and there aren’t many to begin with, now I assume it just hasn’t caught on yet and pretty soon it’ll be the only thing I want to hear.
I love music as much as the next guy and have a pretty diverse playlist in totality, but no song has ever made me “feel” things the way BH’s music resonates with me. The dopamine boost I get off my favorite BH songs are almost comparable to eating a damn sweet treat or something. And it’s like my brain just chooses to download their stuff into my psyche at the most seemingly random times. Why would I go from only liking 3 songs on Depression Cherry one week to buying the vinyl the week after bc all of a sudden it just sounds different? My appreciation for their discography is almost involuntary at this point, as if some part of my brain is just choosing them idk. Are they putting crack in this stuff? Is this normal?