So I was listening to an oldies station while waiting to pick up my mom from the Kingdom Hall, and they played a song from 1992 (yeah, 1992 is oldies. I’m so fucking old.) And I like the song, it gets my body swaying, and before I know it, I’m singing along with “Hey-yeah-yeah-hey, I said hey! What’s goin’ on?”
Yup, it’s 4 Non Blondes, whoever they were, and I’ve heard the song since then a couple of more times driving around with that station on. I like it. It’s a good song.
At least, it was a good song, until my brain decided that this song is THE BEST GODDAMN SONG TO COME ALONG IN TWENTY YEARS!!! And plays it again and again and again and again. Any time I have a bit of quiet time, I’ll hear it. I try to ignore it, but before long I’m saying to no one in particular “…and I take a deep breath, and I get real high…Aw dammit! You stupid brain!”:smack:
This has been going on for about a week now, and it’s pissing me off.
Usually, in a case like this, I try to drown out the offending tune with something else that’s catchy, but it doesn’t always work. I can remember a particularly bad case back in the Eighties, when The Woody Woodpecker Song got stuck in my head for a couple of days and I wanted to shoot myself before it finally went away.
No fucking way am I clicking on that link. We all know, the only way to get rid of a song virus is to pass it along to someone else. We know your game.
That’s actually a pretty good song. Good enough, in fact, that I listened to their album back in the day. That was, to put it mildly, not a wise move. If you ever want to be glad that song’s in your head, listen to their other songs.
I was doing some early morning shopping one day at the grocery store. Sorta quiet in there at 7am.
Then, over the loudspeakers…“YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU light up my LIIIIIIIIFE…”
All day that freaking refrain over and over and over in my head.
I refuse to link to that song. My torment will not be shared.
I’ve had that “If I Die Young” song stuck in my head for about five damned days. It’s actually a very pretty tune but I really don’t want to keep sending a sentiment about my early demise out into the universe over and over
For removing really stubborn earworms while not leaving any annoying aural residue of its own, you need the Marseillaise. Sing along for maximum effectiveness.
Whether it’s the apparently random melodic modulations, the effort involved (for native English speakers, at least) in keeping track of the French lyrics, or the disconcerting way (again, to native English speakers) that the dynamic accents crash down on what we would think of as unaccented words, it really does a good job of killing earworm without becoming earworm.
(The link has all the verses so you can re-apply as necessary.)
For some reason, I have had “My Wife” by the Who stuck in my head for about a week. I’m almost tempted to liste to the “Mana Mana” song - but I think I’d be better off with the Who than Sesame Street.
I can sympathize: I once had the Little Lulu theme on a loop- I’d wake up with it going. It was horrible. It was my mom’s fault for giving me one of those 100 Shitty Cartoons DVDs.
Ah yes…You have my sympathy. For me it has always been the Pink Panther Theme. (WARNING): open link at your own risk.
My teenaged son (bless his pointy little head) has been known to pull this one up on his playlist when I am in the room, then make a ransom demand…*Dad gimme XXX *(usually money), or I’ll detonate the song…
What I find is most effective is a song from a musical tradition other than the European one. Personally, I use “Many and Great”, a Dakota hymn. I think that the unfamiliarity of the musical structures helps prevent it from sticking.
