Music in Stores

[Destination Unknown]

Does anyone have this happen, or is it just me?
This happens to me occasionally, and seems to be happening more often lately. I'll be walking in a store and find that my pace is in time with the music playing in the store. I don't want walk in pace with the music. so I stop or try to slow down. Then it feels awkward to not walk with the beat of the music.

 

[Suzanne]

Yes, but that is because I love music; I tend to have a little bounce to my step. However, some music being played is just awful that it drives me crazy and cannot wait to get out. But when it is a favourite artist of mine, I cannot help but sing along to it and this is despite having chronic social anxiety!

 

[Axeman52]

This has happened to me for as long as I can really remember - it's like my footsteps automatically lock in with the tempo of the music and makes me worry that people might notice I'm walking in time with the music so I try not to but yeah... it's VERY difficult to get out of a groove once you're locked into it, especially when it's also a very comfortable pace to walk at.

 

[Mia]

Not just music stores, music in any kind of store finds me attempting to dance and sing quietly in the aisles. People look at me strangely, when I wish they would join me and begin dancing and singing. But they never do.

 

[ksheehan88]

I dance and bop my head to the music in my earphones, that tends to make people stare but I can't help it (I don't leave the house without my earphones, drowns out the sounds of outside)

 

[Judge]

Well...it's been awhile since I bought a can of paint at the hardware store and strutted my way home to the sound of the Bee Gees.

 

[puzzlingbill]

I really hate the elevator music they play in malls. I think that for most people it's just part of the wallpaper, but my ears seek it out, and it's like fingernails on the blackboard.

 

[OkRad]

I LOATHE music in stores. At the gym yesterday it was that HIDEOUS Christmas music for THREE HOURS. I hate to go unmute for one second to ask them to TURN IT DOWN.

I hate having music someone thinks I should like bombard my mind-space.

 

[toothless]

i absolutely hate music in stores,its bad enough that they are so overloading in the first place i have to deal with friggin music as well.
i LOVE stores without music,now that is awesome.
i lose a lot of my visual processing when in a store with music as the music shuts down my senses so its like being partially to fully blind.
just let me and other auties/aspies do our thing in shops/stores please i beg of you society.

by the way,i absolutely love music of many different types so im not biased,although i did have to give it up completely for years after suffering from profound hyperacusis,its now at a manageable level.

 

[Judge]

Music in stores will never bother me as much as having to listen to customers carry on a phone conversation that I'd really rather not hear at all.

I can think with music. I can't when hearing someone ramble on near me. Too disruptive at times. Go figure.

 

[toothless]

Music in stores will never bother me as much as having to listen to customers carry on a phone conversation that I'd really rather not hear at all.

this really screws me up as well,i dont know if its the same reason for you? but for me i cant cope with the information overload from hearing them yapping on and having to try and function at the same time.

 

[Judge]

this really screws me up as well,i dont know if its the same reason for you? but for me i cant cope with the information overload from hearing them yapping on and having to try and function at the same time.

I can't multitask if someone is talking over me. Yet hearing music doesn't disturb this process for me.

Our brains just handle speech differently...with more difficulty I suppose. But then sometimes such dynamics remind me of vocalist Mel Tillis. A great singing voice, but he stutters when he speaks.

 

[Mr Allen]

I can't multitask if someone is talking over me. Yet hearing music doesn't disturb this process for me.

Our brains just handle speech differently...with more difficulty I suppose. But then sometimes such dynamics remind me of vocalist Mel Tillis. A great singing voice, but he stutters when he speaks.

Gareth Gates was the same at first, but he still came second on Pop Idol a few years back, he can sing brilliantly but he talks with a stutter.

And like most winners of stuff like Pop Idol, Britain's Got Talent, X Factor et al, he was famous for about 3 months then he hasn't been heard of in years.

 

[Destination Unknown]

This has happened to me for as long as I can really remember - it's like my footsteps automatically lock in with the tempo of the music and makes me worry that people might notice I'm walking in time with the music so I try not to but yeah... it's VERY difficult to get out of a groove once you're locked into it, especially when it's also a very comfortable pace to walk at.

This is exactly how I feel. I mostly like to blend into the background, and don't want to be seen strutting to the music like Judge posted.

 

[Butterfly88]

I don't do that but sometimes I'll dance or rock to music in stores.

Speaking of music in stores, why do they need to make it so freakin' loud?!?!

 

[Destination Unknown]

i absolutely hate music in stores,its bad enough that they are so overloading in the first place i have to deal with friggin music as well.
i LOVE stores without music,now that is awesome.
i lose a lot of my visual processing when in a store with music as the music shuts down my senses so its like being partially to fully blind.
just let me and other auties/aspies do our thing in shops/stores please i beg of you society.

by the way,i absolutely love music of many different types so im not biased,although i did have to give it up completely for years after suffering from profound hyperacusis,its now at a manageable level.

I didn't know it had a name, but hyperacusis is apparently what I was experiencing with the music at church a few years back. The singers were hitting some notes that were really painful to listen too.

 

[Destination Unknown]

I dance and bop my head to the music in my earphones, that tends to make people stare but I can't help it (I don't leave the house without my earphones, drowns out the sounds of outside)

Earphones are great. I went for a year where I wouldn't go anywhere without my earphones listening to my favorite online music station. I purposely walk in time with the music in the earphones because nobody else can hear it.
Now for some unknown reason my listening tastes have changed. I haven't used the earphones or listened to my favorite online station in at least 3 or 4 months. For broadcast radio I had listened to country for years, and now no real interest in it. Now I'm back listening to classic rock and talk radio.
Maybe I will try to find my earphones today and try to find my way back to that online station.