# GAAAHHH!!! Damn this song!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 8, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810 "2002-11-08T01:17:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/1 "2002-11-08T01:17:45Z")
There is this song. I don’t want to mention any names, but the song is called “Prayer” by Disturbed. I do not like Disturbed. I do not like this song. The local modern rock station played this song a lot. It got stuck in my head. It stayed there. And stayed there. And stayed there. Foolishly, I downloaded this song. It remains stuck in my head. I keep listening to it, trying to ease the pain. It remains, oh, it remains. I hate this song!! Get it out of my head!! It’s terrible!!! I hate you radio station, I hate you! A girl in my grade interns there, perhaps I could bomb her or something as a warning to the rest of them to stop playing the song- but even that would not help. It would remain in my head. Damn. I am now official Disturbed. Apologies. Owww. LC ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/2 "2002-11-08T01:59:13Z")
There is an easy solution, you know: don’t listen to radio stations. Damn commercial sell-out capitalist pigs! [/punk elitist] Really though, they are eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil. You inevitably hear some song you really didn’t want to hear. 😉 Of course, boycotting radio stations may not help. I have Eminem stuck in my head now; I can only assume that this is due to the fact that people keep talking about his movie opening. Worse, “Lose Yourself” is battling with AFI for supremacy. Not cool! [sub]I still plan on seeing 8 Mile, though. I feel so ashamed.[/sub] Tana ---
**Author:** ![Tars\_Tarkas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/3 "2002-11-08T02:13:34Z")
Hey, at least you are not _Down with the Sickness_!!! Ha! I kill me! ---
**Author:** ![Fionn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fionn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fionn)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/4 "2002-11-08T02:17:32Z")
When I saw the thread title, my first thought was “Must be the ketchup song.” ---
**Author:** ![peepthis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9d8465/32.png) [@peepthis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peepthis)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/5 "2002-11-08T02:59:15Z")
**Fionn** , ditto. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/6 "2002-11-08T02:59:39Z")
The song currently stuck in my head is “I’m Gonna Getcha Good” by Shania Twain. It’s such a mediocre song! And I don’t even listen to country music! GAAAACK. She is hot though… and Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/7 "2002-11-08T07:19:00Z")
Same here with that Shania song…it’s that song and that damn “Chacker” jingle off the Crispy Thins commercial. Radio is awful1 1. At least, all of the radio stations owned by Clear Channel and Westwood One suck. ---
**Author:** ![Jonno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@Jonno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonno)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/8 "2002-11-08T07:30:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dread Pirate Jimbo \* > \*\*The song currently stuck in my head is “I’m Gonna Getcha Good” by Shania Twain. It’s such a mediocre song! And I don’t even listen to country music! GAAAACK. > > She is hot though… and Canadian. \*\* Wow. Another Shania Twain song about getting a guy no matter what he thinks or knows, or even if he can’t stand her incessant whining about what she wants. How…original. Thanks for making a comeback. Now will you please crawl back under the rock you’ve been under? Pretty please? God that felt good. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/9 "2002-11-08T07:36:19Z")
Sadly, I’m with **Fionn** and **peepthis** here… Another week or so and I’ll know the dance. Kill me now, before it’s too late. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/10 "2002-11-08T07:50:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dread Pirate Jimbo \* > \*\*The song currently stuck in my head is “I’m Gonna Getcha Good” by Shania Twain. It’s such a mediocre song! And I don’t even listen to country music! GAAAACK. > \*\* She was on some show the other day, I asked my wife who she was and she freaked…“you don’t know who Shania Twain is”, she shouted. I told her that I had heard the name but didn’t know any more than that. So, hows that song go? I don’t listen to the radio too much as you’ve probably figured out by now. It’s either pretty good or pretty bad since y’all can’t seem to get enough of it. Is that the one where they have like a drum solo for a few seconds, while she gears up for the next verse? I thought “I’m Gonna Getcha” was a rock song? Hell, most of the country music performers today are just rockers that couldn’t make it anyway. Peace ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/11 "2002-11-08T08:32:00Z")
Eh… it’s just cross-over hits / singers that want to have broad mas-market appeal. Riiiiiiight. My sister and her friends used to like Shania Twain, Britney Spears and Celine Dion. Every time our families got together, I’d hang out with the guys instead of the girls (partly) because of this. The other part mainly had to do with lame in-jokes, like the one having to do with a “cleavage purse.” One of the guys even asked me once if I was involved in that in any way… um, no. So as a result of those get-togerhers, I’d invariably have some Shania / Britney / Celine song stuck in my head for at least a day or so. Ugh. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/12 "2002-11-08T10:28:46Z")
Makes me glad I don’t listen to radio stations that play current music. Occasionally however, I can’t quite change the frequency fast enough when a Boston or Eagles song comes on, and I pay for it _all day long_. Damn you Boston!! Christ, get a frickin’ playlist longer than 50 songs someday, rock station! ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/13 "2002-11-08T11:47:19Z")
A cure-all for this…I heard it on _Marketplace_, carried on our public radio affiliate: To forget a song/commercial jingle you have stuck in your head, hum or sing the melody line to “The Girl From Ipanema.” Do _not_ sing the lyrics. Something about the complexity of the song’s structure effectively knocks out any other melody. It works surprisingly well for the people I’ve told. (It stands to reason that something like Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” or the Beatles’ “Michelle” should work too, but I haven’t tried them.) Good luck. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_Wright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Steve\_Wright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_Wright)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/14 "2002-11-08T12:43:21Z")
So I just tried that, and now I have “I Vow to Thee, My Country” (aka the middle bit from “Jupiter” in Holst’s Planets Suite) stuck in my head. Maybe it only works when you’ve already got a song stuck in your head. Or maybe I’m just perverse. Yes, that seems likely. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/15 "2002-11-08T13:37:19Z")
Re: The Ketchup Song I saw the video for this the other night at the bar, and my first thought was that this…_thing_…was carefully planned to be the next Macarena. All I could do was sit there with my jaw dropped wondering what the hell these women were babbling about. Even with bouncing ball subtitles. ---
**Author:** ![Delta-9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3be4f8/32.png) [@Delta-9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delta-9)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/16 "2002-11-08T15:41:40Z")
There’s only one cure for removing stuck songs, and that’s to get a different song stuck in there. “It’s a small world after all. . .” There. All better now. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/17 "2002-11-08T18:26:59Z")
The worst thing for me is that, as in the case of the new Shania tune, songs that get stuck in my head are invariably songs that I don’t like. You think “Layla” or “Thieves in the Temple” or “Couldn’t Stand the Weather” or “Ojos Asi” could get stuck in there? Oh, no. It has to be crap. And, yes, “The Ketchup Song” has plagued me as well. ---
**Author:** ![Velma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Velma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velma)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/18 "2002-11-08T19:02:11Z")
I’m out of it. What’s “The Ketchup Song?” Or shouldn’t I ask? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/19 "2002-11-08T20:07:09Z")
**Velma** , try [here](http://www.theketchupsong.com/). And you **have** to watch the video (provided on that page) to truly understand the depth of the cheesiness of this thing. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810/20 "2002-11-08T20:50:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by todd33rpm \* > To forget a song/commercial jingle you have stuck in your head, hum or sing the melody line to “The Girl From Ipanema.” Do _not_ sing the lyrics. Something about the complexity of the song’s structure effectively knocks out any other melody. Great, now I’ve got Girl from Ipanema stuck in my head. Not only that, but I keep screwing up the bridge. Thanks loads. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gaaahhh-damn-this-song/135810.md?page=2)