# I can't help it, I just gotta sing!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [May 26, 2004, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224 "2004-05-26T19:43:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224/21 "2004-05-27T17:30:55Z")

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Every song ever written that I know the words to. I MUST SING. It’s pretty annoying to my friends and loved ones.  
But there’s one song that’s very popular right now that I have to sing and it’s annoying TO ME because it gets played every ten seconds. Yet every time I hear it, I have to sing it-- Maroon 5’s **This Love**.

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**Author:** ![Oy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bc8723/32.png) [@Oy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224/22 "2004-05-27T19:32:32Z")

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While I too will sing along to just about anything I hear with which I am familiar, I find it particularly irresistable when there is multi-part harmony, like Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young, Queen, etc.

One voice trying to sing four parts simultaneously is _not_ pretty!

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**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224/23 "2004-05-27T19:40:03Z")

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Am I the only one who’s picturing Cartman’s compulsion to finish the song any time someone starts “I’m sailing away…”?

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**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-cant-help-it-i-just-gotta-sing/247224/24 "2004-05-27T20:25:16Z")

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> [@mrklutz](#):
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> Am I the only one who’s picturing Cartman’s compulsion to finish the song any time someone starts “I’m sailing away…”?

Great. From Tears for Fears to Styx. I’m gonna go batty.

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