History Main / IncessantMusicMadness

* There have been several instances where radio stations have a "stop the music" donation for charity, where they'll play a song that is considered annoying on repeat until their goal has been met. (The most common example is [=MMMBop=] by Music/{{Hanson}}.

* In ''Film/{{Ghost}}'', Sam convinces Oda Mae to help him after serenading her all night with an enthusiastic rendition of "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am". (Molly claims this is also how he convinced her to go out with him.)

** The Cheese Shop sketch. When John Cleese's character enters, he speaks in such SesquipedalianLoquaciousness that the proprietor thinks that he's complaining about the bouzouki player. The customer assures him that he "delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse." After making dozens of requests for cheese, with the proprietor stating that he's just run out of each variety, the frustrated customer finally screams, "Will you shut that bloody bouzouki up?!?"

* In ''Film/RocketMan'', the hero and his rival for the astronaut position are both placed in isolation chambers for psychological testing. However, the two chambers aren't isolated enough, so the test subjects can hear each other. The hero passes the time by singing "John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt" for several hours, pushing the other guy to the brink.

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* In the 2nd edition of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' campaign setting, there's an old spell for followers of the bardic demigod of poetry and songs, Milil, ''Forgotten Melody'', that does exactly this by making its targets unable to act in any way while they futilely try to remember and complete the tune that's been put in their heads. Amusingly, it's noted that the spell is more devastating for characters with high Intelligence, since this makes them far more focused on the task and incapable of dismissing it.
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* In the Cheetos commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBoImLUbaoE "Piano"]], a girl and Chester the Cheetos cheetah are repeatedly playing just the beginning of the tune "Chopsticks" over and over. Finally, a guy in the foreground has had enough and says, "Don't you two know anything else?" The girl and Chester look annoyed, then [[LoudOfWar start playing it again]] -- one octave higher.

* This hilarious animation from stickdeath.com called [[http://www.dirtybutton.com/animations/1000-becoming-unglued/ Becoming Unglued]].
* [[https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/166521 Banana Phone]], a flash from the golden age of Newgrounds. A young man mysteriously starts to hear a song nobody else can hear. He winds up going insane after 10 hours of non-stop music until he has some kind of aneurysm. Then his roommates start hearing it...

* The "[[https://youtu.be/6WpMlwVwydo Hampster Dance]]", to the point of it achieving PopCultureOsmosis with an [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARybJ77ykfc Earthlink commercial]] lampshading how annoying the site was.

* WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses gives us "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsHWjEaNXPU The Most Annoying Song In The World]]".

* People with neighbors who like to play music very loudly in the middle of the night are all-too-familiar with this trope.

** In the short, "My Brilliant Revenge" from the episode, "Fox Trot", Plucky is practicing his [[Main/EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipes]] for the Acme All-Bagpipe band outside Hamton's house. Hamton is trying to watch his favorite show, ''Swine Search'', and can't hear it over Plucky's bagpipes. At first, he politely asks Plucky to stop, but Plucky ignores him and continues practicing. When Hamton misses the entire show, he destroys Plucky's bagpipes in a fit of rage. [[spoiler:At the end of the cartoon, it is revealed that Hamton taped the show...and that he somehow missed Plucky's final musical attack: a tape recording of bagpipes cranked UpToEleven (Plucky ends up setting it off himself).]]

* The U.S. Government took this trope UpToEleven in Iraq. They used "I Love You" to torture various Iraqi P.O.Ws.

* Comedian Creator/JohnMulaney has a bit about how one time at a diner, he and his friend noticed a jukebox, and decided to have some fun, put in $7, and selected 21 plays of "What's New Pussycat" by Music/TomJones. Just to throw the other patrons off, they selected "It's Not Unusual" to play after the seventh time, only to go back to "What's New Pussycat" once it it was over. The jukebox was unplugged after the 11th time.

* Comedian Creator/JohnMulaney has a bit about how one time at a diner, he and his friend noticed a jukebox, and decided to have some fun, put in $7, and selected 21 plays of "What's New Pussycat" by Music/TomJones. And just to throw the other patrons off, they selected "It's Not Unusual" to play after the seventh time, only to go back to "What's New Pussycat" once it it was over. The jukebox was unplugged after the 11th time.

** And just when that countdown finishes and you think you're safe...

* Anyone that's ever known an elementary schooler probably knows this one: "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes: I know a song..." Repeat until someone [[DopeSlap smacks you upside the head]], or your mom yells at you to stop.

* Anyone that's ever known an elementary schooler probably knows this one: "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes: I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves! I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes: I know a song..." 'Repeat until someone [[DopeSlap smacks you upside the head]], or your mom yells at you to stop.

* The U.S. Government took this trope UpToEleven in Iraq- they used "I Love You" to torture various Iraqi P.O.Ws.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'' episode "Road Rash", Rocko is gradually driven up the wall by Heffer's idea of road-trip music: a tape of [[EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes bagpipe versions]] of [[DeaderThanDisco disco's greatest hits]]. It gets to the point where he snaps and trashes their motorcycle trying to get the tape out of the stereo.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': In "The Crying Dame", since Lily can't stop crying, Lori hands over her old singing fox toy to cheer her up. Unfortunately, the siblings' parents explain that the toy's song drove them so nuts they almost didn't have any more kids, and indeed, Lily ends up playing the toy's song so much it drives the other ten kids insane.
-->'''Lola:''' Three nights of torture! I CANNOT LOSE ANY MORE BEAUTY SLEEP! [..] [[ICantBelieveImSayingThis I hate to say this]], but the fox must go!

'''Spalding:''' That's funny, I can't think of anything else!

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSv3MVzxlw This short film]] gives a whole new meaning to "organ grinder". You'll never hear ''Ah! Le Petit Vin Blanc'' the same again.