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

<figure> <img alt="The Amazon Echo Studio with its front blue LED ring illuminated while sitting on a wooden coffee table." data-caption="The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge" data-portal-copyright="Photo by John Higgins / The Verge" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/10/258035_Alexa_Studio_2025_JHiggins_0017.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> The Amazon Echo Studio is one of the speakers that runs Alexa Plus. | Photo by John Higgins / The Verge </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">The issue has been reported on Reddit repeatedly over the last few weeks, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1www1qs/alexa_did_something_very_strange_today/">as recently as three days ago</a>, across multiple types of Echo speaker. Multiple users have <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/1wk4rii/alexa_said_lalalalala_for_10_minutes/">uploaded videos</a> of the speakers' strange behavior. Here's one that <em>Android Authority</em> uploaded to YouTube:</p> <div class="youtube-embed"><iframe title="Alexa can&apos;t stop saying &quot;lalalalala&quot;" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iFLtLb7vQHU?rel=0" allowfullscreen allow="accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;"></iframe></div> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Amazon is aware of the issue, and told <em>Android Authority</em> in …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/1005342/amazon-alexa-plus-keeps-creepily-singing-lalala-for-minutes-on-end">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>