Why are songs the hardest thoughts/mental noise to clear? (Page 1 of 2)

Well, for me they pop in from my heart, not through waves of programming via the matrix, most often. They're especially noticed because, as you, I don't listen to music almost ever. So song bits are messages that assist, not malicious intruders, in the majority of my experiences of it happening. Typically, the song lyric (sometimes it's just one line of a song that runs over and over, because it's only that line that is meaningful to my experience) has a meaning that pertains to something I'm not mindful of or something that's occurring for me on my path that is important to understand.

Quite literally inspiration for my growth. Once I make the connection to my experience, it stops.

Don't know if that helps at all...
Sowelu

I also get messages through mental song loops, except once I acknowledge the message they tend to fade away. However some days there's a veritable mind-storm going on and the music is both pointless and persistent. The latter tend to happen prior to moments when my centeredness is put to the test through some uncannily timed external provocation. I've heard from others like astral travel guy Robert Bruce that song loops are used by entity attachments to siphon energy off you. Whatever the case, your question still stands as to what can be done about them.

I find that as with any impulse, switching to another is far easier than trying to stop it. Like switching a train versus stopping it. Stopping something leaves a vacuum, and nature conspires to fill it with anything at hand, in your case perhaps another song loop.

Here's a method that works for me no matter what the mental impulse: I open my eyes and take in my visual surroundings, listen to the subtle sounds of my environment, and take a deep breath. I do this while noticing both my own awareness and the intrinsic consciousness of everything around me. This then engages my visual, aural, tactile, and higher emotional senses - impressions with enough momentum to replace the former mechanical impulse. So a song loop can temporarily be replaced with something far more conscious and of a higher frequency. This doesn't have to take more than five seconds.

The trick is to do this every time a song loop starts - why? Because then you establish the condition that no matter what the source of that mental distraction, every attempt to distract you will bring about the opposite effect. And so that mischievous source gives up.

Fantastic replies!  My negative view of these occurances did not allow me to consider that some of them may be messages from a guiding and/or positive source.  With this knowledge I will explore this new avenue.

One other thing I noticed is that these songs carry a strong energy.  And now that I see both ways, I have noticed that the song driving my nuts from the barber shop does not feel good at all, whilst on the other hand this little uplifting score of music from a television show called "Doctor Who" pops into my head a lot and it is so moving and energizing it makes me buzz with energy and puts me into a fantastic mood.

montalk: thank you kindly for you guidance on how to handle these when necessary.

Someone I know who did a ten-day vipassana retreat said he was constantly getting song loops in his head during meditation, all of which were thematically related to the experience he was having.
It became comical.

Whatever causes them to be difficult to extinquish is surely also the reason they are used to teach little children things, like the alphabet and tricks to remember spelling rules and formulas.....
and certainly marketers know jingles work wonders.

I also know that when a person sings out loud, they use a part of the brain that is only used when singing.

That's my useless two cents.

Sombody who I don't remember, told me that a repeating song loop is a symptom of a aneurysm. Some common type. But what the heck, if it's a good tune, go with it.

If I want to stop the loop, that is the music from looping around in my head, I simply sing along out loud. This seems to do the trick

First, congrats for diggin' up a thread so old. I guess that's alright.

Noise music. Isn't that the same as hard metal? I kid, I kid.
I've listen to pink noise generating programs before. White noise, pink noise, for binaural experiments. Afterward, the silence seems very silent, but I wouldn't encourage longterm use of white or pink noise. Its true that I can help block EVERYTHING out, but it's also deconstructive to creativity. It's just pure lack of order. Wouldn't it be better to calm your mind and take ownership of your own mental chatter?

Meditation is a tool you can use.