Amazon Alexa Plus keeps creepily singing ‘lalala’ for minutes on end

October 6, 2026 Dominic Preston

The Amazon Echo Studio with its front blue LED ring illuminated while sitting on a wooden coffee table.
The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge

An unsettling Alexa Plus bug has seen some Amazon Echo smart home speakers reduced to saying - and sometimes singing - nothing but "lalala" on repeat for minutes at a time, often in the middle of conversations with users. When quizzed about the behavior, Alexa is apparently entirely unaware of what it's been doing.

The issue has been reported on Reddit repeatedly over the last few weeks, as recently as three days ago, across multiple types of Echo speaker. Multiple users have uploaded videos of the speakers' strange behavior. Here's one that Android Authority uploaded to YouTube:

Amazon is aware of the issue, and told Android Authority in …

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