berzerk Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Have any of you guys ever listened to a really catchy song that ended up getting stuck in your head, constantly repeating itself; and no matter how hard you try to think of something else, it comes back? If so, how long was it stuck in your head for and what did you to do fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arabella314 Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Yea, I had the first free credit link removed song stuck in my head before. In a few days you should forget about it. Damn...now the song is in my head](*,) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berzerk Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 yeh i'm not even going to say what song is stuck in my head because i'll come back to this thread and see what I typed lol. It's just really really irritating. ](*,) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waveseer Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 I always sing the abc's to get rid of brain bards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berzerk Posted September 10, 2009 Author Share Posted September 10, 2009 I hope to god this song won't be stuck in my head for a week, lol. Hopefully by the time I wake up I can forget about it. Not gonna listen to it for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantexplain Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Hahahahahaha!! There is actually a word for this!! EARWORM !! From Wikipedia: "Earworm, a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a portion of a song or other musical material that repeats compulsively within one's mind, known colloquially as "music being stuck in one's head". Use of the English translation was popularized by James Kellaris and Daniel Levitin. Kellaris' studies demonstrated that different people have varying susceptibilities to earworms, but that almost everybody has been afflicted with one at some time or another. The psychoanalyst Theodor Reik used the term haunting melody to describe the psychodynamic features of the phenomenon. Another scientific term for the phenomenon, involuntary musical imagery, or INMI, was suggested by the neurologist Oliver Sacks in 2007. Wanted Words, a feature on CBC Radio One's This Morning hosted by Jane Farrow, also once asked listeners to invent a word for this phenomenon. Submitted entries included "aneurhythm" and "humbug". People with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are more likely to report being troubled by ear worms - in some cases medications for OCD can minimize the effects. Earworms should not be confused with endomusia, which is a serious affliction in which someone actually hears music that is not playing externally. Earworm may also refer to the Helicoverpa zea (corn earworm) or the musician DJ Earworm." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cantexplain Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Yea, I had the first free credit link removed song stuck in my head before. In a few days you should forget about it. Damn...now the song is in my head](*,) Oh maaaaaaan!! Dog gone it!! Now you got that awful jingle back in my head. Good grief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jengh Posted September 10, 2009 Share Posted September 10, 2009 Oh maaaaaaan!! Dog gone it!! Now you got that awful jingle back in my head. Good grief. me too... they say a man should always dress for the job he wants.. so why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
berzerk Posted September 12, 2009 Author Share Posted September 12, 2009 Lol, is it a bad thing if the same song is still lingering in my head after a couple days? I haven't listened to the song for more than 24 hours and it still seems torture me. > Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firiel Posted September 12, 2009 Share Posted September 12, 2009 I had Boulevard of Broken Dreams by Green Day in my head for a couple of months last year. In eighth grade, there were several songs that our choir sang that I got stuck in my head for probably near three or four months. I literally had accepted the fact that they would always be stuck in my head for the rest of my life. They were awful songs, too... that was a hard time! It's not a big deal. It's annoying, but no matter what the song, it'll go away eventually. Two or three days is nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neo Cortex Posted September 15, 2009 Share Posted September 15, 2009 I Had the orchestrated version of "His World" stuck in my head for...I don't even know how long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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