Question for German-speakers

Cafe Society
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Back when I first started learning German, my teacher said there was a particular colloquialism for songs like “The Pina Colada Song,” where you might hear it for the first time in a cafe or something and think to yourself “Wow, that’s kinda catchy and cute,” and then you loathe and despise the thing after you’ve heard it for the umpteenth time in less than a week.

For the life of me, I can’t remember the word after 40+ years. Ring a bell with anyone?

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Ohrwurm?

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No, don’t think so.

To the best of my recollection, it was a (something) Lied, the latter being the word for “song.”

4

I would also have gone with Ohrwurm and looking at synonyms did not help either (some of them are synonyms for earwig):

Synonyme:

  1. Ohrenwurm, Ohrenkneifer, Ohrenpitscher, Zangenkäfer, Ohrkäfer, Ohrhöhler, Ohrling, Öhrling, Gaffeltange, in der Schweiz: Ohrenmittel, Mittel 2. Schmeichler, Kriecher 3. eingängige Melodie, eingängiges Lied, Schlager, Hit 4. Kopfhörer 6. Ohrenzwang
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I hereby neologize Dauernlied, which is a song that persists.

But I don’t know of any actual existing word for that.

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So, apparently I’m retarded. I’ve enjoyed the YouTube covers done by a duo called Ohrwurm for years. I never realized what the name meant.:smack: