Weirdest pregnancy symptom, and getting revenge on my brother-in-law

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I don’t know whether it’s hormonal, or whether I’m losing my mind, or what, but for the past 2 or 3 weeks, I’ve been stricken by chronic earworms. Even under “normal” circumstances (whatever those are,) I tend to get songs stuck in my head - usually songs I don’t like, songs I know only one or two lines of, or songs I neither know nor like. For the past weeks, though, I have been absolutely plagued by earworms. Really, really bad ones. I can only assume that my advanced state of pregnancy has kicked up the hormones to the point that I have finally lost. my. freakin’. mind.

Anyway, yesterday while I was at work, my brother-in-law (bless his heart) accidentally implanted a new and highly obnoxious tune in my head. “Sweet City Woman.” That was bad enough, but when I laughingly “thanked” him for the favor, he basely introduced (ye gods!) “Cracklin’ Rosie.” And he did it on purpose. So now I need revenge. And help. (In every way possible.)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Help me find the MOST ANNOYING SONG EVER to inflict upon my favorite (and only) brother-in-law.

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The same thing happened to me when I was pregnant. I think it’s nature’s way of letting you know that you’ll never have an easy moment again.

In these dire circumstances, I don’t feel any guilt at all about introducing the nuclear option of earworms: It’s a Small World.

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Ooh. That’s bad. Or good.

I’ve considered the theme song for Barney, but I don’t know whether I should burn that particular bridge. I usually like my brother-in-law, after all!

(It’s a world of laughter, a world of tears… I love you, you love me… It’s a Small World, after all!)

And part of me is happy that I’m not the only one who has had this pregnancy symptom. While part of me worries about your kid(s.) And mine. :wink:

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“Havin’ My Baby”

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I second that! That song has always made me cringe…

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Almost anything by Vivaldi. The Four Seasons, lute concertos…

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(Reminding you that with great power comes great responsibility…)
"Second verse, same as the first!"
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Huh. That’s a coincidence. I was reading the “Power Surge” message board the other day, which is a message board for women trying to cope with the symptoms of menopause. I was surprised to read that insanity-inducing earworms was a common complaint. And they’re really dealing with hormonal changes.

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Play Robot Unicorn Attack. Trust me. It’s indeliable. (The song is “Always” by Erasure.)

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…A little bit louder, and a whole lot worse!

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Come On Get Happy by The Partridge Family

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Lovefool by The Cardigans

This song gets stuck in my head every time I hear it. Just the fact of searching for this made me start singing it in my head.
You’ve been warned…

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I am at work so I can’t link to a recording, but “Please Mr Please” by Olivia Newton-John.

Please Mr Please, Don’t play B-17
It was our song, it was his song
but its over
Please Mr Please, Don’t play B-17
I don’t ever want to hear that song again…

That chorus is perfect ear worm fodder, and the whole idea of never wanting to hear that song again…pure evil

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Okay, I’m not reading the rest of the thread beyond the OP, because I happen to have a high susceptibility to earworms.

There’s a Crosby Stills & NAsh tune that has a few measures of: Deet deet deet deet deet; DEET, deet; deet-deet-DEET-DEET (I think it’s the end of Suite Judy Blue eyes). There’s a good one, particularly if you can sing it just well enough to pull it into his mind…

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Really? If I must be evil. The most recent horrible earworm might be the McDonalds commercial “Give me that Filet-O-Filet give me that fish…”

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There’s also the muppet “mana mana do do dododo” and the really old commercial “da da da da”.

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Ooh - Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. The chorus just keeps repeating and repeating and repeating…

Good lord, I hate that song. Marilyn Manson’s cover is better, but not by much. At least it doesn’t keep repeating in my head.

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When I was pregnant, I didn’t have food cravings; I had Springsteen cravings. Which was weird because I wasn’t a big fan of The Boss before I was pregnant and I’m not a big fan now. But when I was pregnant, that’s all I wanted to listen to.

As for earworms, I’m now singing Sweet City Woman, which has completely blocked my ability to think of any other song…so thanks for that.

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The Oompa Loompa song from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie is VERY wormy.

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I think I’ve been hoist by my own petard… I’ve spent the day humming many of these suggestions myself! Ack! (And sorry, Jelly Roll. I didn’t mean to inflict that upon anyone else.)

But I do particularly like the Olivia Newton-John suggestion. And maybe the Oompa Loompa song - it’s so sinister, and so repetitive…