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Comment author: adbge 08 April 2014 08:08:51PM 0 points [-]

Another consideration: earworms. I find getting a song stuck in my head to be somewhat aversive.

Edgar Allan Poe puts it this way:

It is quite a common thing to be thus annoyed with the ringing in our ears, or rather in our memories, of the burthen of some ordinary song, or some unimpressive snatches from an opera. Nor will we be the less tormented if the song in itself be good, or the opera air meritorious.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 13 April 2014 08:12:06PM 0 points [-]

It takes about a minute for something bad to annoy me. It takes multiple days for something good to annoy me.