Shut the music off!!

If you're not the only one, you should be. It's just music. If it causes too much anxiety, you could try an ativan, valium, Xanax, booze, pot, or whatever. And the Wise Up song is awesome, by the way. Good luck with the music anxiety.

I'm watching this for the first time and I came here to say exactly this. It's extremely distracting and makes scenes seem overly corny to a fault.

Paul Thomas Anderson does that a lot. Watch Boogie Nights for example. You just have to stop thinking about the music and feel how well it usually matches the scenes.

I thought the music really added to the feel of the film.Opinion of course.

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No, you're not the only one who finds the music annoying. It's funny, because the movie starts with the song "One is the loneliest number" and it is so annoying and obtrusive that I was thinking, "Well, it's just the opening credits song, it has to be over soon. But, then again, it's so much louder than the dialogue it's obviously done on purpose - I hope the rest of the movie isn't that way..." Sure enough, it is.

I'm not sure why it would make you think the end of the movie is coming, because the soundtrack has been overpowering almost the entire movie. I'm sure this is an intentional artistic decision.

Hopefully you are finding other aspects of the movie to like. This movie came highly recommended to me from a friend whose opinions I generally respect, and so far I'm really enjoying it. The other aspects of the movie are more than offsetting the heavy-handed score for me.

The music is supposed to make you anxious.

I felt the same way. It made every moment seem like a pivotal moment which ended up making feel that nothing was a pivotal moment. I found the movie to he melodramatic.

It gave the movie a constant sense of movement, and tied everything together. With all the different scenes/scenarios, especially near the beginning, you need something to be a constant. It was great how it made the film flow, from building up to calm, back to building again. PTA for instance said the structure was partially inspired by "A Day in the Life" by The Beatles. I thought it worked perfectly.