# Stupid little song stuck in my head...grrr **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 23, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762 "2004-02-23T22:40:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hawkeyejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/1 "2004-02-23T22:40:41Z")
Why oh why of all the songs by all the people in this world does it have to be _Jessica Simpson’s_ song that’s stuck in my head. It’s there all time time, when I wake up, when I go to sleep, when I’m walking around muttering to myself because I’m losing my mind… Screw that stupid song, screw MTV, screw Kiss FM, screw the bus driver that made me listen to Kiss FM and screw Jessica Simpson (hmmm…there’s a thought). [Jon Stewart] DAMN YOU JESSICA SIMPSON [/Jon Stewart] ---
**Author:** ![CheekyMonkey613](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e480ec/32.png) [@CheekyMonkey613](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheekyMonkey613)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/2 "2004-02-23T23:50:40Z")
Two songs are guaranteed to get ANY other song out of your head… The first one is: "Il etait un petit navire, il etait un petit navire, qui n’avait ja ja jamais navigue, qui n’avait ja ja jamais navigue. Ohe ohe! Naviguez! The other one is: "Lundi matin, le roi, sa femme et son p’tit prince … son venus chez moi, pour me serrer la pince. Mais comme je n’etais pas la, le petit prince a dit, “Puisque c’est comme ca nous reviendrons mardi… MARDI MATIN etc” Those two songs have worked for me in ANY case of the “stuck in your head” phenomenon. Sorry I can’t help more. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/3 "2004-02-23T23:57:30Z")
Every Thursday the children in my class get to watch the episode of _Between the Lions_ that goes along with their spelling words for the week. It takes me until the following Wednesday morning to get the theme song out of my head. Then, I have one blessed day of normalcy until… “Hey now. Hey wow. Here’s how…come and read…Between the lions…” I hum it. I sing it. It’s Public Television, and it’s insidious! FB ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/4 "2004-02-24T00:08:00Z")
“…and Honey I miss you And I’m being good…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hawkeyejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/5 "2004-02-24T00:18:33Z")
Jessica Simpson should be prosecuted for her crimes (of singing these songs that she sings)…after a day of listening to Zeppelin I’m still humming ‘With nothing but a T-Shirt on…’ and so on… Oh me is woe… ---
**Author:** ![wakimika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f08c70/32.png) [@wakimika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wakimika)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/6 "2004-02-24T03:23:27Z")
Thank God I don’t know who Jessica Simpson is or this thread might have infected my brain. I’m very susceptible to getting noxious ditties stuck in my cranium for days at a time. For instance, I just heard the muzak version of “The Captain of her heart” in the local supermarket. On the way home I had to fight the urge to steer into a telephone pole. \*Too long ago, too long apart she couldn’t wait another day for the captain of her heart. \* ---
**Author:** ![Ilsa\_Lund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/a6a055/32.png) [@Ilsa\_Lund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ilsa_Lund)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/7 "2004-02-24T03:32:04Z")
Oh, she’s a DANCING QUEEN! YOUNG AND SWEET ONLY SEVENTEEN! AAAAAAHAHGGHHHRRCKCKK\>\>\>…[sub]…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/8 "2004-02-24T13:32:17Z")
I have found that “All Mixed Up” by 311 will ruthlessly stomp any other song out of my brain. It’s worked for four years and still doing beautifully. Just a helpful tip. Unless you hate 311, in which case I’m afraid you’re on your own. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/9 "2004-02-24T14:05:47Z")
Try humming that song by Jet. The one they use in the I-Pod commercials. Wish I knew what it was called. I LOVE that song. I may have to purchase it to do my aerobics by. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/10 "2004-02-24T16:05:42Z")
> [@](#): > > Too long ago, too long apart > she couldn’t wait another day for > the captain of her heart. _shudder_ When I have a song stuck, it seems to help me to hear the song again, then go on listening to something else. Weird. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/11 "2004-02-24T16:49:27Z")
Here, I can help… \*"H.R. Pufnstuff, Who’s your friend when things get rough? H.R. Pufnstuff Can’t do a little cause he can’t do enough. " \* You’re welcome. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2004, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/12 "2004-02-24T17:21:03Z")
It dates from my navy days, it’s to the tune of ‘You are my Sunshine’ (better known to most people my age or younger as ‘The Oscar Meyer song.’) My Reactor has a first name: It’s N A V A L. My Reactor has a second name, that’s classified as well. Oh, I love to scram it everyday, And if you ask me why, I’ll say: “'Cause radiation has a way of rearranging D N A!” ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/13 "2004-02-25T08:07:48Z")
Of late, my braintrack has been vascillating between two different songs: André 3000’s “Spread” and that popmetal song by The Darkness that’s in every other song rotation on the music video channels. Nothing gets me closer to feeling like I’m losing my mind than standing in the line at the post office with one of those songs throbbing in my head. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2004, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-little-song-stuck-in-my-head-grrr/230762/14 "2004-02-25T15:42:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Too long ago, too long apart > she couldn’t wait another day for > the captain of her heart. It’s not a bad song, but considering the tone of the original, I’d hate to hear the _MUZAK_ version of the song! :eek::eek: