Zoe Fennessy, who suffers from a rare condition called musicogenic epilepsy, doesn’t particularly dislike Ne-Yo’s music, it’s just that whenever she hears it, she freezes up and begins vomiting uncontrollably. In June, the 26-year-old had brain surgery in an attempt to ease her symptoms, but it didn’t work.
For fear of hearing a Ne-Yo song—any song, apparently—and being sent into a seizure, Fennessy listens to her own music in earbuds any time she goes shopping, and hasn’t gone to work for six months, the Daily Mail reports. She began having non-music-related seizures in 2006, and the triggering began in 2011 after the release of Pitbull’s Ne-Yo-featuring “Give Me Everything,” a number-one single in the UK, where Fennessy lives. Since then, other Ne-Yo tracks—the Mail mentions the Calvin Harris collaboration “Let’s Go” and Ne-Yo’s feature on Calvin Maynard’s “Turn Around”—have also triggered episodes.
Fennessy isn’t the first to have seizures seemingly caused by a particular artist: In 2008, a New Jersey woman named Stacey Gale had brain surgery to correct the epilepsy that flared up whenever she heard the music of Sean Paul—her favorite singer. (Gale’s procedure was apparently successful.)
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