Response to Blog: Band Sickness

Abby Lindamood asks if getting "sick of a band" alter our taste in music all together?

Honestly, I don't think it alters our taste in music all together. I don't think it alters our taste in the genre either. I think it is like what we talked about in class, having too much of one thing makes a person "sick" or annoyed after a while. It is like what we talked about with the bananas in class. Take a person stranded on an island. They have been stranded there for a few days without food and they stumble upon a banana tree. They eat banana after banana after banana. After eating so many bananas they feel sick and don't even want to hear the word banana let alone eat another one.

I know when I go to a buffet and I eat until I am ready to pop I don't want anyone to mention the word food around me, let alone put food in front of me, because at that moment I am sick of food. It doesn't mean my outlook on food has changed permanently, but just for that moment I am "sick" of food. The next day, believe me I will get hungry and will need food to eat. "too much of one thing is bad," is a saying that I believe. You just get saturated of that thing and annoyed and just don't want anything to do with it anymore. That is what happens with music.
I have had experiences with songs that I am "tired of hearing" because I hear it everywhere. I turn on the TV the music video is on, I watch my favorite show, it is playing in the background, I turn on the radio , the DJ just started playing the song, I walk on the street, and it is coming from someones bedroom. Ugh! When this happens I just want to scream, because I would start out liking a song and just because I hear it all the time I just get sick of the song, (or band) and I just grow to dislike the song; which makes me not so friendly with the person next to me humming the melody. However, after the hype over the song has died down and I don't hear it for a while, and I come across it I listen to it and I like it again. So to give a straightforward answer to the question, I think a person can "get sick of a band" , but only for a while. After a moment of not listening to them and not hearing anything about them for awhile, the first spark that you had when you first heard them returns and you fall in love all over again. The thing that we as a society need to learn is moderation. We either over do something, or under do something. We can never find the middle ground, people live in extremes and it effects our lives so much because (in terms of music) over listening to something cause people to get sick of a song for a while, then under listening causes them to miss the song which will once again lead to over listening (vicious cycle). So I guess my question is why do people live in extremes? Why can't they find the middle passage??