Hearing yourself in the music
This morning at the gym, the step aerobics class was playing the old Police song, "Message in a Bottle," which usually goes, "Sending out an SOS for your love" a number of times at the end. But this was some kind of special step aerobics remix, and it was just repeating the same line over and over, dozens of times, echoing down through the stairwell:
"sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS..."