# Quick, what's your current earworm? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [June 2, 2015, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433 "2015-06-02T10:22:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![Blisters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Blisters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blisters)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/281 "2016-02-05T05:58:04Z")
Boom Chicka Boom (I teach preschool) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/282 "2016-02-05T12:51:22Z")
The Temptations’ “Ain’t Too Proud To Beg,” for no apparent reason. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/283 "2016-02-05T15:13:30Z")
Thanks to that thread elsewhere in the forum about Czech music, [Jožin z bažin](https://youtu.be/S4aqM_wu6Ns). ---
**Author:** ![CorneaGenii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@CorneaGenii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CorneaGenii)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/284 "2016-02-05T15:14:58Z")
The last week of December I put together a playlist on YouTube of Christmas songs to get in the holiday spirit. Today is February 5 and I still have “Little Drummer Boy” and “Mary, Did You Know?” by Pentatonix playing in my head at least twice a day every day. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/285 "2016-02-05T16:40:06Z")
> [@Kamino\_Neko](#): > > Thanks to that thread elsewhere in the forum about Czech music, [Jožin z bažin](https://youtu.be/S4aqM_wu6Ns). I both love and hate you right now. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/286 "2016-02-05T20:38:27Z")
The best earworms do do that. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/287 "2016-02-05T20:52:58Z")
Today? Justin Bieber’s “Love Yourself.” :o Could be worse. After I the first time I saw _A Clockwork Orange,_ I had “Singing in the Rain” worming my ears for three days. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/288 "2016-02-05T20:55:31Z")
“Will the Circle be Unbroken”. I just picked up the mandolin and this is one of the songs I’m learning so I’ve been playing it over and over and over again. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/289 "2016-02-07T09:55:31Z")
It was this [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uZBBvaKGc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0uZBBvaKGc) Thankfully it got replaced by this, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5Arbm47IQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH5Arbm47IQ) , it still tries to creep in, but I think I got it whipped ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/290 "2016-02-07T11:06:55Z")
It’s now morphed to [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm1-bVYio1k) cover of Taylor Swift’s _Shake It Off_, as done by the Screaming Females. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/291 "2016-02-07T11:38:49Z")
Starman, by David Bowie Because of this cool Super Bowl commercial that will air later today, in the 1st quarter: [Audi Heads to Space With a Stirring Super Bowl Ad Set to David Bowie’s ‘Starman’](http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/audi-heads-space-stirring-super-bowl-ad-set-david-bowies-starman-169378). ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/292 "2016-02-07T11:39:35Z")
[So sing us a song we all know](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndjidutkAGU). FFO: TTTYG. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/293 "2016-02-07T11:50:02Z")
“Hello” by Adele, and “Wish I Could Fly” by Roxette, both of which I’ve only just discovered in the past couple weeks. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e99b99/32.png) [@The\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hermit)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/294 "2016-02-07T11:52:53Z")
For me it’s “Hot Sugar - The girls that stole my Tamagotchi”. Really great to listen to on a rough monday morning 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/295 "2016-02-10T17:02:18Z")
Back in November I watched the Man in the High Castle on Amazon. Episode 4 began with a song that had a 1940s vibe so I dove into some research. Turns out the song was Mac the Knife. Inexplicably I found myself singing some weird lyrics that in no way at all matched the blood saturated ballad that is the true version of the song. Something about a clock striking midnight kept up its aggravating rotation. Further research brought to light the fact that McDonalds had hijacked the tune back in the 1980s with its own whitewashed version to sell Big Macs and these were the lyrics that first inserted themselves into my earworm playback. When I first read the actual lyrics I was amazed. Murder depicted in striking detail with bolts of unexpected humor (lies a body just oozin life - Eek!). Lyrics seem on a different plane than the music. A great lesson to use when explaining the meaning of incongruity. If one ignores the words it’s a jaunty little piece hence the earworm infection. It comes and goes with me frequently adding to my own discomfort. For some reason. I complained about this earworm to a coworker with the result of having him whistle it randomly during the day. No doubt this contributes to Mac taking up real estate in my head. This is not the oddest earworm to wriggle itself into my mental arena. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/296 "2016-02-10T17:16:35Z")
Люсьена Овчинникова - Старый Клен https://www.youtube.com/embed/cHaP_S2Yfwk?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque&list=PLA34046A4B9425E66 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/297 "2016-02-10T17:47:05Z")
I keep going back to YouTube lately to listen to John Williams’s “Rey’s Theme” from _Star Wars: The Force Awakens_: [John Williams - Rey's Theme (Audio Only) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65As1V0vQDM) Also “Cecilia and the Satellite” by Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness: [cecilia and the satellite lyrics - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkh6q9-RkDE) And Sam Smith’s Oscar-nominated “Writing’s on the Wall” from _Spectre_: [Sam Smith - Writing's On The Wall (from Spectre) (Official Music Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jzDnsjYv9A) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/298 "2016-02-10T18:16:15Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Chris Cornell, “[Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpMfZPAc1kg)” > > I recently put together a “Best of 2015” disc for my kid sister, so a lot of the songs on it are playing bumper cars in my head these days. I love this song. I have something more annoying than any of you: the soft kitty song from Big Bang Theory. Soft kitty, warm kitty, little ball of fur Sleepy kitty, happy kitty, purr purr purr HATE IT MAKE IT STOP ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2016, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/299 "2016-02-10T23:30:57Z")
Sometimes, when I’m driving to work, I think of [The Terrills and The Hannasseys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7ZX_JA7-A). Who’d stand up to “The Major”? Who’d leave Buck Hannassay to go suck eggs? Who’d stand up to either of them day after day…? Oh, probably no one… ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433/300 "2016-02-11T05:16:24Z")
Oh, my GAWD, all day long, today, “[Everything is Food, Food, Food, Food, Food](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT5ENxSGOP4)” from the Robin Williams/Shelley Duvall Popeye. I will gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quick-whats-your-current-earworm/721433.md?page=16)