Music helped me get through a difficult childhood. After 50 years it’s still an integral part of my life. Playing the cello as a teen gave me an appreciation for diverse styles of music.
@Nicolas Broszky - back in the early 90s I heard “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen on the radio...I liked it but didn’t know the title...it took me a long time to (months to a few years) to find it...now I could find it in a few minutes or less.
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As someone who's pretty much constantly got an earworm going (I struggle to imagine a moment where I haven't), it's nice to have some more background. My preferred "solution" is to replace a bad one with a good one by the way. Since most of mine are actually enjoyable, I never lack for a healthy selection from the last few days to root out whatever I'm fighting. I have a few peculiarities that don't quite fit the information presented though, perhaps as a result of the particular intensity of my habit. The biggest is probably that over time, my earworms are less and less often in the catchy hook territory and more frequently ever-more-bizarre sections of highly complex compositions (prog, flamenco, jazz, etc.). It's not just that I'm pulling from complex songs because I often enjoy listening to them, but even the part of the song I'm stuck with is just a very strange choice to fixate on, even when the song has other parts that are clearly identifiable hooks. Perhaps my brain is just so used to confronting the unexpected at this point that it's more willing than most to try to make sense of the weirder aspects of a composition. I can't really think of another explanation. Of course, I do still get normal earworms, and yes, I do still enjoy simple, popular music as much as ever (unless it's from the last 20-30 years...despite only being 29 myself). Another peculiarity is that I on rare occasion get a name stuck in my head on repeat rather than music. It usually doesn't have any meaningful significance to me, but I usually find the sound/rhythm of it to be an oddity. The first one I can remember from childhood was "Paul Bunyan". Another one from within the last few years was "Reince Priebus", who I still know almost nothing about. Name earworms tend to be annoying, especially since they're so short and repetitive and I never actually care about the subject in question. This might also happen with phrases, I just struggle to remember any examples at the moment, whereas the names stick with me more clearly. Perhaps they're just less annoying and meaningless. There's an odd story I have with one particular earworm. One day, out of the blue, the vague shadows of a song got "stuck in my head", despite not being able recall almost anything about the song and not having any idea of its name. I had only heard it probably one time, years prior, with no associated memory to connect it to. I didn't even have a melody, chord progression, or rhythm; just some shadowy ideas about its overall tone, the thought that "I'll know it when I hear it", and somehow knowing it was a Jethro Tull song. So naturally, I scoured what I had of their library, and finally settled on "The Whistler". I wasn't even 100% certain when I did hear it, but the more I played it back in comparison to the other songs I was considering, the more it settled in as "the one". Just bizarre. It did kick off my first real Jethro Tull phase though, which is nice. I'm always going through a few different musical phases at once, and often revisiting them multiple times later on. Hopefully some of that was interesting to someone.
Beth's soft roar at the end of her acapella intro in her video uploads is my current earworm and initially got me hooked and eventually compelled me to subscribe to this channel.
The combination of sound and memory is pretty amazing. When I was younger I would sometimes read a book while listening to an album on repeat for the whole time. 20 years later Over The Hills And Far Away by Nightwish still triggers my memory of reading The Three Musketeers.
Just this morning I was washing the dishes and Petula Clark's "Downtown" popped into my head, out of nowhere. I sang along to the earworm that had set up shop in my head and finished the dishes. Then I played the video on UA-cam. In addition, I watched your "reaction video" to the song and your impeccable analysis of Ms. Clark and her iconic song made me love the masterpiece even more. So, I listened to the song several times more. The earworm is still there, but at least it isn't "Baby Shark."
Tell me about it! When I hear the song Up, Up and Away by the Fifth Dimension, which, IMO, is a depressing song, I have a hard time getting it out of my head. So I have to listen to a better song to erase the depressing song inside my head
@@BethRoars Speaking of which, sometimes it can be nerve wracking getting a particular song stuck in your head, but it depends on the song that gets stuck in your head
I find it's often a rhythmic thing too. Sometimes when you're out walking you get a particular song in your head. I know that that's the science of why 'Stayin' Alive' became so popular. The scene where John Travolta is walking down the street to that song in Saturday Night Fever with both the pizza and the paint can. The BPM is just above normal walking pace, that's why it has that particular strut to it.
So, I always have a song in my head. Always. And the only thing that kicks an old song out, is a new song coming in. Also, my brain tends to go to ear works super quickly- a simple word association is enough to kick off a new song. I’ve just gotten used to having a constant soundtrack in my head. Before I started this video, it was Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf and now, thanks to this video, it’s Don’t Stop Believing. Thanks for that. I know you said 25% of people get more than one per day, but I wonder how many people have it constantly? I know my brother also constantly has music in his head too- but we’re both very musical people, I’m a singer and he’s a bass guitarist. I will say that playing my ear work does not work for getting rid of it. If anything, it just strengthens it. My only way of getting rid of it is to replace it. Either by plying a different song, or a different song getting stuck in my head. That’s the only way it works.
listening to the song 2-3 times in a row usually kills my ear worms.. but I ALWAYS have a song in my head. unless I'm actively thinking about something i've got a tune/melody/full blown song playing in my mind
Me too. I don't think of those as earworms so much as the soundtracks of my life. The real earworms are like tinnitus in that they are difficult to move.
I wake up pretty much every day with a song in my head. And I don't hear just the melody. I have a very vivid memory of instrumentation. That doesn't bother me too much. But for me, this goes one step further...and I wonder how many people experience this: I emulate the instrumentation with my mouth. I drum with my teeth and play guitar with my tongue. ...anyone? In fact, right now, I have something that could be strained muscles in my mouth, because I do it a whole lot, lately. I know that stress probably increases this. But I have done this all my life, even in times without stress. It's likely that people who sing or play instruments actively - which I do not - are not prone to internalize it, either.
I grew up around music and earworms are pretty much a constant in my life. I’m definitely a “learn the lyrics and sing it to completion” guy, although even then I have to be able to do it without getting interrupted, so... 😂 It’s worth mentioning I work in a supermarket and have to listen to godawful pop music throughout my shift.
Same. Try piped in Disney Channel on repeat for hours. ( I worked in a popular toy store for 6 months.) Interrupted by the commercial for that very toy store every 5th song! I now have a violent reaction every time someone even starts to sing [ that song from frozen]
I have every single song I've ever listened to stuck in my head. It's just a question of which one comes to the surface on a given date, usually it's the gummi bears cartoon theme song.
Hi. This video is actually the most dear thing I’ve ever watched. It’s so insightful and thought provoking. I don’t think I’ll ever recover from how deeply it touched me and made sense to my feeble brain. I find that my ear worms are actually instrumentals. The main one I’m always humming (not that I mind this tune, actually) is “The Force Theme” from Star Wars. It’s beautiful and calming to me so I don’t find myself bothered by it. But, watching this video helped me to recognize its repetitive nature, its importance to my younger life, and its never ending melody/theme. I thank you, with all my heart, for creating this content and helping me to feel…. normal. 🥰😉🤓
Together with a colleague we used to plant earworms. Whistle a certain song while walking past the offices and see which sticks with the rest of our colleagues. "Tequilla" and "Magic moments" used to be easy to plant. :-)
Right now, it's "You Don't Even Know Me" by Faouzia. Sometimes I'll connect two songs that ordinarily wouldn't work together (different keys that would clash, for instance). Then I can't sing the first song because the second one keeps taking its place at a certain place. I have to find the first song, play it to figure out what I keep messing up and why. I agree with some of you: My mind often feels like its own radio station. I almost always have songs in my head. I've had the same song stuck in my head for four or five days before. It was horrible! The other night I heard a phrase in a video, and this little snippet of rap kept going through my head. I couldn't figure out what the heck I was remembering, because all I had was that one phrase "I take a look at my life," and the rhythm of the rest of the line. it was "Ganger's Paradise". I finally figured it out. Fascinating how our brains latch onto things!
What I found for me personally - the first song or melody I hear after getting up gets stuck in my head until I hear something else. So if that's an ad jingle from UA-cam I'm doomed. Also I sometimes wake up with a melody of a song in my head that I haven't listened to in years.
my most common earworm is the beginning of ludacris’s rap in baby by justin bieber. just the line “when i was 13, i had my first love” over and over lol. right now it’s the lion sleeps tonight, for some reason. my brain is like a never ending radio station. i get words and phrases stuck in my head sometimes too.
I worked in a factory in highschool, back before iPods, and I was doing an extremely repetitive job in a loud environment, so I would "play" songs in my head, and now 25 years later, there is always an annoying song in my head, so detailed I can pick out specific instruments. Sometimes it gets so annoying I can't listen to music for a few weeks, and then the intensity goes down. But there's always something there.
Great stuff! This reminded me of a couple severe, chronic ones I had as a young child, that infected every adult in my life (somehow kids seem somewhat immune to being as bothered). There were literally parent teacher meetings about my repetition of Country Roads by John Denver then later Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. (Must be common offenders.) My parents never recovered, lol. I must say I still go out of my way to avoid those songs in fear the loop will start again.
Your reactions and videos on all topics fall into the sea of the delightful. Thank you. I have been thinking of making a reaction request and after watching the video once again I realized how I much I would appreciate hearing your reaction to it. I didn't find any mention of this artist or this video on your UA-cam site so I'm taking a chance. This to me is an absolutely epic a cappella triumph. It is Jacob Collier's version of Moon River. He arranged, produced and performed this auditory masterpiece and consequently won a Grammy for it. Though only 26 he now has 4 of these. So if you've already visited the world of Jacob Collier then I am happy for you. Should you be intrigued by this request I cannot really express how much I would enjoy hearing your reaction to this video. Thank you again. I feel-though not a singer myself-that I've learned so much about how to listen to singers from you.
@@BethRoars Honestly it would have beggared my imagination if somehow you hadn't come across Jacob. You shouldn't make assumptions though so thanks so much for the reply. I am deeply relieved.
Right? I came here a long time ago for a Chris Stapleton reaction and stayed for the cuteness and the accent and wound up learning stuff, and this video right here was amazing content.
Yep, the only way for me to get rid of an undesirable earworm is to replace it with a different one, one that I enjoy. Nothing else works for me (until I'm distracted enough to get rid of them entirely, I suppose, but I can't do this deliberately).
The mash-up of "Baby Shark" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is awesome! I never would have thought of that. This video confirms why I've always called earworms "endlessly repetitive songs you just can't get out of your head."
Hehe, I had "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers on the brain the other day. It's one of my favourite songs of all time and I didn't mind it at tall. I even sang it when driving home under a beautiful sunset. I do know all the words however, but don't necessarily get the verses in the right order, and I often skip back to the start anyway. It's about his daughter leaving home, so is pretty emotional for most people. It's slow paced and beautiful, I'll say no more. Ok, It's back on my brain right now, but I love it! ❤️
Hi there! I was wondering if you might consider reacting to Anna von Hausswolff. I think you would find her really interesting & and I don't think there's any reaction videos out there yet about her. Some songs I would recommend are: "The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra", "Come Wander With Me(Deliverance)" , "Funeral for my Future Children", and "Deathbed". I hope you decide to give her a listen!
Years ago at trade school I’d spent about 2 weeks with Sandi Thom - I wish I was a punk rocker stuck, I’d hummed it, I sang along in the car and it just stuck; until the last day at school doing our final practical test out and I started singing, then mate beside me joined, then another and another then the lecturers, before I know the entire class of 13 was singing along until the end............... Never got it stuck in my head again
I have an eye worm. It is of you Beth. In the morning's gentle light so fair, an Irish girl with fiery red hair. You walk a dirt path through fields so green, sprinkled with tiny white flowers like stars reflection off a emerald sea. A thick morning mist passes over head and a whisper far beyond a broken castle of dread. Your red hair is swaying in the gentle Irish breeze. A vision of beauty, a sight to be seen.
I passed a Ford "Excursion" on the way to work this morning (after watching this video), and now I'm singing "Chattanooga Choo Choo" 😃 Thanks for the great video
Hi Beth,I’ve had One Day More from Les Mis stuck in my head for 30 years and try to sing (in my head) all the overlapping vocal parts....sometimes I can but mostly not,still try though.....roar...
My old boss liked to have music playing in the office. It was either a CD or cassette which would obviously stop at the end track. When it stopped I would immediately start singing without conciously realising the music had stopped. I would sing a random song and not one from the previous CD. This happened so often that after I'd sung a few notes either I or someone else would realise that it meant the music had stopped. You've heard of relative and perfect pitch? I have bewildered pitch, which meant my colleagues couldn't get a new cd on fast enough to stop my torturous warbling in the key of L . It was only me that would be "triggered" by the music finishing and it happened almost every time. Is there a reason for this or am I a human juke box? lol
Happens to me a lot when I'm reading a book. A plot point or section of dialogue will remind me of the lyrics of a song, then boom. Got the song stuck in my head.
I’ve had Sunrise Avenue’s “Fairytale gone bad” stuck in my head for several days - ironically the part that starts with “Get out of my head”. On a side note: I generally do like most of my earworms. That’s how I became a fan of my favourite band. I just wasn’t able to get that one song out of my head. It has been three and a half years and 24 of their concerts since then and I still regret absolutely nothing!
I tend to listen to songs on repeat until I learn all the words, so words are the trigger for me. Any conversation, any tv show or movie, any passage in any book, any passing thought, anything anywhere is likely to trigger one. "If I" (If I were a flat-head screwdriver, where would I be?) triggers either "If I were a rich man, la-la-la-la la-la" or "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning" I always called it my soundtrack, because my brain is always playing one until a different one is triggered. 😂
Aha - this is why I wake up in the morning with a tune going in my head. Fortunately, I like most of my earworms and am content to let them run their course!
I have had this earworm for over 30 years now, a song my dad used to sing in church when I was a kid, and as a kid, I used to repeat it. And yeah, sometimes it comes with a whole orchestra, changes of key, three or four voices harmony, etc LOL. And I can't get rid of it. It just pops into my brain in the most unexpected situations. It's freaking annoying most of the time.
This is another great video about music like your one on the armonica. It would be great if you did one about how a person having lost the ability to put thoughts into words because of disease or disorder sometimes can get speech back. The key is they can sings word from a songs they know and then are able to recover the ability to speak the words they are thinking of. I think it's a form of Aphasia. By the way I can get the Beach Boys' Beach Baby or Coldplay's Viva La Vita stuck in my head at times. Isn't one way to get rid of an ear worm is with another ear worm.
I've found that listening to an earworm from start to finish usually makes it go away. If that fails, find a live version or a cover version. I had Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode stuck in my brain and listened to the Lacuna Coil cover. No more earworm.
OMG. That song!That didn't have an ear worm it had an ear octopus. Just reading your comment I can hear the rumblings of the song churning up in my head.
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What about replacing one earworm with another, my brain? YEAH! Happens to me all the time. Avatar TLA -> Another holy war -> The clone wars theme -> Back to Avatar TLA -> ... ... Hey, it's 4 in the morning!
I'm afraid to write it in a comment (because it may come back), but my most recent one was "Never Be The Same Again" by Melanie C, especially the chorus. One night a few weeks ago, all I could think of was that song. ALL..I could think of. Over, and over, and over. Like madness.
I have had this a few times. The last one was Lindsey Buckingham's It Was I. I woke up and it was in my head all day. It's not a well known song by Lindsey, but it's catchy as hell. So I bought the album with it on and tried to exorcise it from my mind. But no, it haunted me. But I do love it still.
Yeah, last day or so had this repeating over and over: "Is something wrong?, she said Of course there is, you're still alive, she said Oh and do I deserve to be? Is that the question? And if so if so, who answers? WHO ANSWERS?"
The solution is a fairly simple one, to not think about it, and to just let the song play in your head. Without you even realizing it your mind will soon get bored and tired of it and automatically switch off that song and switch on to something else and you will not even recollect the allegedly stuck situation, and your head will just unstuck itself.
I found that one is more susceptible to ear worms when one has unresolved tension (emotional or psychological) as you comment in your video; this might come from too difficult tasks (to release it from the frustration) or too easy (as a free time distraction) and intentional unresolved tension like Elfen Lied's intro (explained by Jaime Altozano), Lord of this World by Black Sabbath or from the And there are situation-dependant ear worms: ñp
The ones that really drive me nuts are the songs I really don't like...or actively dislike even...and they get stuck in there for days, weeks at a time! Ugh The songs I like...I really don't mind all that much; unless I'm trying to "hear" a different one, and then the 2 of them blend together in my head in some sort of nasty mash.
Occasionally I get a portion of a song stuck in my head and I have a hard time getting it out of my head, for example, the solo in Mike + the Mechanics' "Silent Running"
I once had Say You Love Me by Fleetwood Mac in my head for 2 weeks. Not the worst song to have stuck in your head. Right now is the chorus from Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads.
My cure song is We are the Champions by Queen, I would play it in my head to focus on my exams! I got so good at using it, all it would take is hearing "WWWEEEEEEEeeee..." and the earworm would disappear!
I can hear every one of your earworm images. I've always found for earworms, if I listen to the original, it will tend to go away, unless it's Green Onions by Booker T & the M.G's
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A friend of mine who is a music teacher, told me the best way to knock one of those stuck songs out of your head is to hum the theme song from Sanford and Son. She unfortunately did not have any advice for what to do if the theme song then gets stuck itself.
Mine run 24/7. I tap my teeth to the current song running and I have worn my teeth way down from it! Sometimes it’s a recently heard song. Much more often they are random songs that I usually like but haven’t heard in a while. Does anyone else have this 24/7? It’s like music running in the background constantly. It doesn’t exactly bother me as it’s not super invasive. Unless it’s a song I hate which is not that common. It feels like I’m really impressionable. And of course I have associations with music very strongly. I can tell you where I was the first time I heard most any song especially from childhood. Playing right now on my mind’s jukebox: Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it away” 😩 have not recently heard that.
It's funny, I don't really experience earworms. Sure, some songs get triggered but they never "go on and on". I wonder what that says about me and my brain... BTW it seems like your Scottish accent has gotten a bit stronger over the last few weeks. I now enjoy listening to you speaking even more, if that's even possible
I thought I was just crazy. Thank you for discussing this. I have a question. What does it mean when someone says something, and you immediately think of lyrics in a song? This happens to me often and then I start singing that song in my head. on loop! For example, someone said "superstar" the other day and then I started singing "ghetto superstar. that is what you are..." It's so maddening. Or someone says "doggone" and I start singing that song 'I'll be doggone...." I'll even break out in song in front of others (and I can't sing!). I know people think I'm nuts. It happens to me a lot! And I mean a few times a week. Everything turns into a damn song in my head. What is wrong with me?
Earworms are best driven out with punk rock in my experience. Dead Kennedys works a treat for me, nothing dissipates Baby Shark or other nastiness faster than "Too Drunk to Fuck" cranked to 11.
I've used the replacing the bad earworm with a good earworm before... Somehow I never thought of using Kylie - Can't get you out of my head... That's definitely going to be one of my goto replacements from now on 😁👍 Also would love to see you reacting to her singing sometime. Hint hint 😋
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There's one song that I think becomes an earworm for most people, at least in the US. And it's so strong that you don't even have to hear it-it's enough to just read the words: It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small world after all It's a small, small world.
I usually get an earworm of whatever piano piece I'm learning. The trick is to get the piece learnt before I hate the earworm. As I choose my own repertoir, it isn't a big pain. The annoying ones are the snatches of works by obscure composers thaf I've picked up from the radio. It can take ages to track those devils down.
I once had the theme song for "I Dream of Jeannie" (a late 60s/early 70s TV show) and Susanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" stuck in my head for a week at the same time. They have a similar melody so that may be why they showed up at the same time. All I know is that I was ready to bang my head against the wall to get them out. 😁👍👍
@@BethRoars I woke up with "Ain't Making No Headlines" by Hank Williams, Jr. running thru my head this morning. So I am trying the read a book option. 😁
okay, after years of research on this subject i have found the cure for "song in my head" syndrome. this works for me 100% of the time and has for years. i've tried to get people to try this but as in most things they just laugh at me and move on. if you try this method don't just try it once for 5 seconds and then give up. so here it is: 1) you notice there's a tune running through your mind over and over and you want it to be gone. 2) you remember the method that i'm going to give you right now 3) you employ the method 4) the tune disappears the method: begin playing the theme song from the 60's tv show "the addams family" in your mind, you can even snap your fingers at the appropriate moment. if you know the words then all the better. you only need to go through the first 10-20 seconds of the song. stop and move on with your day. in a minute or two you will notice (if you even bother to think about it) that: 1) you don't remember the song that initially was running through your head, and... 2) the "addams family" theme has also left your mind. when i stumbled upon this method i found it worked instantly for me. however you may need to practice as the need arises. i believe you will discover that you will soon exert your mastery over this common human malady. best wishes
Music helped me get through a difficult childhood. After 50 years it’s still an integral part of my life. Playing the cello as a teen gave me an appreciation for diverse styles of music.
My current "earworm" is Storytime by Nightwish. I'm not complaining, as having Floor Jansen stuck in my head is not a bad thing.
Same, but with Greatest Show on Earth
The worst is when you can’t remember the name of a song you want to remember.
and the wrong answers you can get.. mashable.com/article/identify-song-apps/
Very relatable
@Nicolas Broszky - 👍 Sometimes my brain merges two songs...that’s been a more recent phenomenon for me.
@Nicolas Broszky - back in the early 90s I heard “Suzanne” by Leonard Cohen on the radio...I liked it but didn’t know the title...it took me a long time to (months to a few years) to find it...now I could find it in a few minutes or less.
Or when you just know 1 or two lines of the song and that stays in your head
I can't complain I've the chorus from faith no mores midlife crisis stuck in my head for about 2 month's I love that song 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
You're perfect yes it's true! But without meeee-eeeeee you're only youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu (You're only you!)
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Thanks, Beth. Earworm is indeed a fickle beast. Never understood why that Kylie Minogue song stuck in my head every time I do some mundane tasks.
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As someone who's pretty much constantly got an earworm going (I struggle to imagine a moment where I haven't), it's nice to have some more background. My preferred "solution" is to replace a bad one with a good one by the way. Since most of mine are actually enjoyable, I never lack for a healthy selection from the last few days to root out whatever I'm fighting. I have a few peculiarities that don't quite fit the information presented though, perhaps as a result of the particular intensity of my habit.
The biggest is probably that over time, my earworms are less and less often in the catchy hook territory and more frequently ever-more-bizarre sections of highly complex compositions (prog, flamenco, jazz, etc.). It's not just that I'm pulling from complex songs because I often enjoy listening to them, but even the part of the song I'm stuck with is just a very strange choice to fixate on, even when the song has other parts that are clearly identifiable hooks. Perhaps my brain is just so used to confronting the unexpected at this point that it's more willing than most to try to make sense of the weirder aspects of a composition. I can't really think of another explanation. Of course, I do still get normal earworms, and yes, I do still enjoy simple, popular music as much as ever (unless it's from the last 20-30 years...despite only being 29 myself).
Another peculiarity is that I on rare occasion get a name stuck in my head on repeat rather than music. It usually doesn't have any meaningful significance to me, but I usually find the sound/rhythm of it to be an oddity. The first one I can remember from childhood was "Paul Bunyan". Another one from within the last few years was "Reince Priebus", who I still know almost nothing about. Name earworms tend to be annoying, especially since they're so short and repetitive and I never actually care about the subject in question. This might also happen with phrases, I just struggle to remember any examples at the moment, whereas the names stick with me more clearly. Perhaps they're just less annoying and meaningless.
There's an odd story I have with one particular earworm. One day, out of the blue, the vague shadows of a song got "stuck in my head", despite not being able recall almost anything about the song and not having any idea of its name. I had only heard it probably one time, years prior, with no associated memory to connect it to. I didn't even have a melody, chord progression, or rhythm; just some shadowy ideas about its overall tone, the thought that "I'll know it when I hear it", and somehow knowing it was a Jethro Tull song. So naturally, I scoured what I had of their library, and finally settled on "The Whistler". I wasn't even 100% certain when I did hear it, but the more I played it back in comparison to the other songs I was considering, the more it settled in as "the one". Just bizarre. It did kick off my first real Jethro Tull phase though, which is nice. I'm always going through a few different musical phases at once, and often revisiting them multiple times later on.
Hopefully some of that was interesting to someone.
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If I get a depressing song stuck in my head I have to replace it with a better one
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I love all your content, but these scientific/explanation videos really resonate with me in particular. Keep up the phenomenal work, Beth! 😊
Glad you like them! I hope to do more
Beth's soft roar at the end of her acapella intro in her video uploads is my current earworm and initially got me hooked and eventually compelled me to subscribe to this channel.
My most recent one was “The Chain” by Fleetwood Mac (mainly because of “Guardians of the Galaxy” and because Evanescence once did a cover of it)
The combination of sound and memory is pretty amazing. When I was younger I would sometimes read a book while listening to an album on repeat for the whole time.
20 years later Over The Hills And Far Away by Nightwish still triggers my memory of reading The Three Musketeers.
Classic earworm: "I WANNA KNOW WHAT LOVE IIIIIIIIIS!..."
Dammit, just reading this line and its in my head. Thanks. :P
I could hear this comment.
Just this morning I was washing the dishes and Petula Clark's "Downtown" popped into my head, out of nowhere. I sang along to the earworm that had set up shop in my head and finished the dishes. Then I played the video on UA-cam. In addition, I watched your "reaction video" to the song and your impeccable analysis of Ms. Clark and her iconic song made me love the masterpiece even more. So, I listened to the song several times more. The earworm is still there, but at least it isn't "Baby Shark."
Great video, I understand now why i kept hearing the Forty-six & 2 bassline in my head whilst I studied in my Uni days!
Thanks! Now I have Tool stuck in my head.
I'd rather have a song like that stuck in my head 😁😁😁
Now you've got Baby Shark stuck in my head😂 Thank you for the informative video, Beth. Earworms can be a total nuisance.
This might make it worse but check out the metal cover of baby shark by frogleap studios.
@@thepayne7862 great piece! ahah!
Lol, just posted it: ua-cam.com/video/POdbe-_bYbs/v-deo.html
Tell me about it! When I hear the song Up, Up and Away by the Fifth Dimension, which, IMO, is a depressing song, I have a hard time getting it out of my head. So I have to listen to a better song to erase the depressing song inside my head
I like these new kind of videos Beth.
Not a lot of people change up their channel and do a better job than before.
Thank you! It's been very nerve wracking but I am glad people are enjoying them!
@@BethRoars Speaking of which, sometimes it can be nerve wracking getting a particular song stuck in your head, but it depends on the song that gets stuck in your head
Love these technical videos. Very informative, plus you look like you just enjoy them so much.
Glad you like them!
I find it's often a rhythmic thing too. Sometimes when you're out walking you get a particular song in your head. I know that that's the science of why 'Stayin' Alive' became so popular. The scene where John Travolta is walking down the street to that song in Saturday Night Fever with both the pizza and the paint can. The BPM is just above normal walking pace, that's why it has that particular strut to it.
I've considered that scene as well - something about it just works *so* well
@@robertcronin6603 Totally iconic. The perfect marriage between music and a certain attitude.
❤open of Sat Fever, the Strut&Song🎉 "The little green bag" in Reservoir Dogs 😊
So, I always have a song in my head. Always. And the only thing that kicks an old song out, is a new song coming in. Also, my brain tends to go to ear works super quickly- a simple word association is enough to kick off a new song. I’ve just gotten used to having a constant soundtrack in my head.
Before I started this video, it was Paradise by the Dashboard Light by Meatloaf and now, thanks to this video, it’s Don’t Stop Believing. Thanks for that. I know you said 25% of people get more than one per day, but I wonder how many people have it constantly? I know my brother also constantly has music in his head too- but we’re both very musical people, I’m a singer and he’s a bass guitarist.
I will say that playing my ear work does not work for getting rid of it. If anything, it just strengthens it. My only way of getting rid of it is to replace it. Either by plying a different song, or a different song getting stuck in my head. That’s the only way it works.
listening to the song 2-3 times in a row usually kills my ear worms.. but I ALWAYS have a song in my head. unless I'm actively thinking about something i've got a tune/melody/full blown song playing in my mind
Me too. I don't think of those as earworms so much as the soundtracks of my life. The real earworms are like tinnitus in that they are difficult to move.
I wake up pretty much every day with a song in my head. And I don't hear just the melody. I have a very vivid memory of instrumentation. That doesn't bother me too much. But for me, this goes one step further...and I wonder how many people experience this: I emulate the instrumentation with my mouth. I drum with my teeth and play guitar with my tongue.
...anyone?
In fact, right now, I have something that could be strained muscles in my mouth, because I do it a whole lot, lately. I know that stress probably increases this. But I have done this all my life, even in times without stress. It's likely that people who sing or play instruments actively - which I do not - are not prone to internalize it, either.
The current music that's stuck in my head.
🎶Sailing, sailing, over the bounding main🎶 🎶For many stormy wind shall blow, ere jack come home again🎶
I grew up around music and earworms are pretty much a constant in my life. I’m definitely a “learn the lyrics and sing it to completion” guy, although even then I have to be able to do it without getting interrupted, so... 😂
It’s worth mentioning I work in a supermarket and have to listen to godawful pop music throughout my shift.
Same. Try piped in Disney Channel on repeat for hours. ( I worked in a popular toy store for 6 months.) Interrupted by the commercial for that very toy store every 5th song! I now have a violent reaction every time someone even starts to sing [ that song from frozen]
Well thanks a lot Beth.....I'd never heard of 'Baby Shark' before, so I had to check it out.....now I can't get it out of my head.
Same problem here xD
I have every single song I've ever listened to stuck in my head. It's just a question of which one comes to the surface on a given date, usually it's the gummi bears cartoon theme song.
Such an underrated show.
I loved that show!!!
@@carlagarcia3427 Me too.
Hi. This video is actually the most dear thing I’ve ever watched. It’s so insightful and thought provoking. I don’t think I’ll ever recover from how deeply it touched me and made sense to my feeble brain. I find that my ear worms are actually instrumentals. The main one I’m always humming (not that I mind this tune, actually) is “The Force Theme” from Star Wars. It’s beautiful and calming to me so I don’t find myself bothered by it. But, watching this video helped me to recognize its repetitive nature, its importance to my younger life, and its never ending melody/theme. I thank you, with all my heart, for creating this content and helping me to feel…. normal.
🥰😉🤓
Together with a colleague we used to plant earworms. Whistle a certain song while walking past the offices and see which sticks with the rest of our colleagues. "Tequilla" and "Magic moments" used to be easy to plant. :-)
"And beware of a song with a fadeout". And UA-cam Inserts an ad. Well played UA-cam. Well played.
Right now, it's "You Don't Even Know Me" by Faouzia.
Sometimes I'll connect two songs that ordinarily wouldn't work together (different keys that would clash, for instance). Then I can't sing the first song because the second one keeps taking its place at a certain place. I have to find the first song, play it to figure out what I keep messing up and why.
I agree with some of you: My mind often feels like its own radio station. I almost always have songs in my head. I've had the same song stuck in my head for four or five days before. It was horrible!
The other night I heard a phrase in a video, and this little snippet of rap kept going through my head. I couldn't figure out what the heck I was remembering, because all I had was that one phrase "I take a look at my life," and the rhythm of the rest of the line.
it was "Ganger's Paradise". I finally figured it out. Fascinating how our brains latch onto things!
What I found for me personally - the first song or melody I hear after getting up gets stuck in my head until I hear something else. So if that's an ad jingle from UA-cam I'm doomed.
Also I sometimes wake up with a melody of a song in my head that I haven't listened to in years.
my most common earworm is the beginning of ludacris’s rap in baby by justin bieber. just the line “when i was 13, i had my first love” over and over lol. right now it’s the lion sleeps tonight, for some reason. my brain is like a never ending radio station. i get words and phrases stuck in my head sometimes too.
I worked in a factory in highschool, back before iPods, and I was doing an extremely repetitive job in a loud environment, so I would "play" songs in my head, and now 25 years later, there is always an annoying song in my head, so detailed I can pick out specific instruments. Sometimes it gets so annoying I can't listen to music for a few weeks, and then the intensity goes down. But there's always something there.
Great stuff! This reminded me of a couple severe, chronic ones I had as a young child, that infected every adult in my life (somehow kids seem somewhat immune to being as bothered). There were literally parent teacher meetings about my repetition of Country Roads by John Denver then later Here Comes the Sun by the Beatles. (Must be common offenders.) My parents never recovered, lol. I must say I still go out of my way to avoid those songs in fear the loop will start again.
"Howling At The Moon" by the Ramones is my most pervasive earworm.
Sha-la-lala.
Sha-la-lalala!
Uh oh...
Love the ramones🎸👍
Your reactions and videos on all topics fall into the sea of the delightful. Thank you. I have been thinking of making a reaction request and after watching the video once again I realized how I much I would appreciate hearing your reaction to it. I didn't find any mention of this artist or this video on your UA-cam site so I'm taking a chance. This to me is an absolutely epic a cappella triumph. It is Jacob Collier's version of Moon River. He arranged, produced and performed this auditory masterpiece and consequently won a Grammy for it. Though only 26 he now has 4 of these. So if you've already visited the world of Jacob Collier then I am happy for you. Should you be intrigued by this request I cannot really express how much I would enjoy hearing your reaction to this video. Thank you again. I feel-though not a singer myself-that I've learned so much about how to listen to singers from you.
Jacob Collier is a massive favourite of mine!
@@BethRoars Honestly it would have beggared my imagination if somehow you hadn't come across Jacob. You shouldn't make assumptions though so thanks so much for the reply. I am deeply relieved.
Wow! Nice video. I like to see you singing, reacting and now teaching us interesting things related to music. Thanks
Ps. You look adorable.
Right? I came here a long time ago for a Chris Stapleton reaction and stayed for the cuteness and the accent and wound up learning stuff, and this video right here was amazing content.
yea, that bit at the end... best way to lose an earworm is to replace it with another, ugh
~that darn elephant do-do-da-do-da-doo~
Yep, the only way for me to get rid of an undesirable earworm is to replace it with a different one, one that I enjoy. Nothing else works for me (until I'm distracted enough to get rid of them entirely, I suppose, but I can't do this deliberately).
I've had Shadow Dancing and Night Fever in my head for days and days. Thanks, Dee Gees.
The mash-up of "Baby Shark" and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" is awesome! I never would have thought of that. This video confirms why I've always called earworms "endlessly repetitive songs you just can't get out of your head."
Glad you liked it! It was Manny the Elephant and Unihorn :)
Hehe, I had "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers on the brain the other day. It's one of my favourite songs of all time and I didn't mind it at tall. I even sang it when driving home under a beautiful sunset. I do know all the words however, but don't necessarily get the verses in the right order, and I often skip back to the start anyway. It's about his daughter leaving home, so is pretty emotional for most people. It's slow paced and beautiful, I'll say no more.
Ok, It's back on my brain right now, but I love it! ❤️
I have the cure for earworms. Pantera's "Domination" turned up to 11. 🤘
Hell yes.
Hi there! I was wondering if you might consider reacting to Anna von Hausswolff. I think you would find her really interesting & and I don't think there's any reaction videos out there yet about her. Some songs I would recommend are: "The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra", "Come Wander With Me(Deliverance)" , "Funeral for my Future Children", and "Deathbed". I hope you decide to give her a listen!
sometimes i feel like a real fm radio channel is connected into my brain! yup! it's that bad! lol! nice vid! love these!
Glad you enjoy it! I'm the same. Always singing in my head
Years ago at trade school I’d spent about 2 weeks with Sandi Thom - I wish I was a punk rocker stuck, I’d hummed it, I sang along in the car and it just stuck; until the last day at school doing our final practical test out and I started singing, then mate beside me joined, then another and another then the lecturers, before I know the entire class of 13 was singing along until the end............... Never got it stuck in my head again
I have an eye worm. It is of you Beth.
In the morning's gentle light so fair, an Irish girl with fiery red hair. You walk a dirt path through fields so green, sprinkled with tiny white flowers like stars reflection off a emerald sea. A thick morning mist passes over head and a whisper far beyond a broken castle of dread. Your red hair is swaying in the gentle Irish breeze. A vision of beauty, a sight to be seen.
I passed a Ford "Excursion" on the way to work this morning (after watching this video), and now I'm singing "Chattanooga Choo Choo" 😃 Thanks for the great video
Hi Beth,I’ve had One Day More from Les Mis stuck in my head for 30 years and try to sing (in my head) all the overlapping
vocal parts....sometimes I can but mostly not,still try though.....roar...
Africa from Toto is my favorite earworm.
It’s gonna take a lot to get that song away from you...
My old boss liked to have music playing in the office. It was either a CD or cassette which would obviously stop at the end track. When it stopped I would immediately start singing without conciously realising the music had stopped. I would sing a random song and not one from the previous CD. This happened so often that after I'd sung a few notes either I or someone else would realise that it meant the music had stopped. You've heard of relative and perfect pitch? I have bewildered pitch, which meant my colleagues couldn't get a new cd on fast enough to stop my torturous warbling in the key of L . It was only me that would be "triggered" by the music finishing and it happened almost every time. Is there a reason for this or am I a human juke box? lol
ROFL! This is hilarious!
Wanna know what repeats in my head every time I watch your videos? * La,la,la,Rowr!*
Happens to me a lot when I'm reading a book. A plot point or section of dialogue will remind me of the lyrics of a song, then boom. Got the song stuck in my head.
I’ve had Sunrise Avenue’s “Fairytale gone bad” stuck in my head for several days - ironically the part that starts with “Get out of my head”.
On a side note: I generally do like most of my earworms. That’s how I became a fan of my favourite band. I just wasn’t able to get that one song out of my head. It has been three and a half years and 24 of their concerts since then and I still regret absolutely nothing!
I think there has to be something going on with that. As soon as a song has those lyrics the song is stuck in your head.
I usually get rid of an earworm by replaying a song that does resolve in my mind, or modifying the current one in a way that does resolve.
I tend to listen to songs on repeat until I learn all the words, so words are the trigger for me. Any conversation, any tv show or movie, any passage in any book, any passing thought, anything anywhere is likely to trigger one.
"If I" (If I were a flat-head screwdriver, where would I be?) triggers either "If I were a rich man, la-la-la-la la-la" or "If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning"
I always called it my soundtrack, because my brain is always playing one until a different one is triggered. 😂
One of my recent earworms was The Cave by Mumford and Sons
Aha - this is why I wake up in the morning with a tune going in my head. Fortunately, I like most of my earworms and am content to let them run their course!
I have had this earworm for over 30 years now, a song my dad used to sing in church when I was a kid, and as a kid, I used to repeat it. And yeah, sometimes it comes with a whole orchestra, changes of key, three or four voices harmony, etc LOL. And I can't get rid of it. It just pops into my brain in the most unexpected situations. It's freaking annoying most of the time.
Thanks, It took me weeks to get baby shark out of my head, now is back forever.
This is another great video about music like your one on the armonica. It would be great if you did one about how a person having lost the ability to put thoughts into words because of disease or disorder sometimes can get speech back. The key is they can sings word from a songs they know and then are able to recover the ability to speak the words they are thinking of. I think it's a form of Aphasia. By the way I can get the Beach Boys' Beach Baby or Coldplay's Viva La Vita stuck in my head at times. Isn't one way to get rid of an ear worm is with another ear worm.
The Proclaimers- I'm gonna be 500 miles got stuck in my head for a week, ended up listening to it over and over 😁.
Only a week???? Lucky you
I've found that listening to an earworm from start to finish usually makes it go away. If that fails, find a live version or a cover version. I had Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode stuck in my brain and listened to the Lacuna Coil cover. No more earworm.
OMG. That song!That didn't have an ear worm it had an ear octopus. Just reading your comment I can hear the rumblings of the song churning up in my head.
@@timc3665 yup, works for me as well. There is a fantastic cover on the voice UK of 500 miles. Forgot his name. But easy to find
Anything Dimash! I always wake up with Dimash in my head. After so many years of fighting earworms, I have blissfully surrendered 😍
What an intense earworm! Not a bad one though.
CHARLIE ZHOU SHEN a popular Chinese singer who vows to combine classical music ( where he learn male vocal bel cantor from LVIV CONSERVATORY UKRAINE ) with pop music. He still maintain young boyish voice and natural female vocal (which is rare like Micheal Jackson but was discriminate during his teenage)。 Below was link for his song MEMORY performed in SUPER VOCAL TV 'show.
ua-cam.com/video/cmc1aP90zGc/v-deo.html
What about replacing one earworm with another, my brain? YEAH!
Happens to me all the time.
Avatar TLA -> Another holy war -> The clone wars theme -> Back to Avatar TLA -> ... ... Hey, it's 4 in the morning!
Great playlist though.
I'm afraid to write it in a comment (because it may come back), but my most recent one was "Never Be The Same Again" by Melanie C, especially the chorus. One night a few weeks ago, all I could think of was that song. ALL..I could think of. Over, and over, and over. Like madness.
I have had this a few times. The last one was Lindsey Buckingham's It Was I. I woke up and it was in my head all day. It's not a well known song by Lindsey, but it's catchy as hell. So I bought the album with it on and tried to exorcise it from my mind. But no, it haunted me. But I do love it still.
Yeah, last day or so had this repeating over and over:
"Is something wrong?, she said
Of course there is, you're still alive, she said
Oh and do I deserve to be? Is that the question?
And if so if so, who answers? WHO ANSWERS?"
The solution is a fairly simple one, to not think about it, and to just let the song play in your head. Without you even realizing it your mind will soon get bored and tired of it and automatically switch off that song and switch on to something else and you will not even recollect the allegedly stuck situation, and your head will just unstuck itself.
I found that one is more susceptible to ear worms when one has unresolved tension (emotional or psychological) as you comment in your video; this might come from too difficult tasks (to release it from the frustration) or too easy (as a free time distraction) and intentional unresolved tension like Elfen Lied's intro (explained by Jaime Altozano), Lord of this World by Black Sabbath or from the And there are situation-dependant ear worms: ñp
Heilung is one of my favorite earworms. I saw them live and its been wonderful.
I love them but I've never had them as an earworm. My current earworm is Aurora Warrior
Immediately thought of that "Baby Beluga' episode of "Full House."
The ones that really drive me nuts are the songs I really don't like...or actively dislike even...and they get stuck in there for days, weeks at a time! Ugh The songs I like...I really don't mind all that much; unless I'm trying to "hear" a different one, and then the 2 of them blend together in my head in some sort of nasty mash.
Occasionally I get a portion of a song stuck in my head and I have a hard time getting it out of my head, for example, the solo in Mike + the Mechanics' "Silent Running"
Such as the first solo of Orion, the end of it, and the part after the clean section in To Live Is To Die
I once had Say You Love Me by Fleetwood Mac in my head for 2 weeks. Not the worst song to have stuck in your head. Right now is the chorus from Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads.
My cure song is We are the Champions by Queen, I would play it in my head to focus on my exams! I got so good at using it, all it would take is hearing "WWWEEEEEEEeeee..." and the earworm would disappear!
„All is full of Love” Björk
Replacement is by far my favorite method. I find just about anything by ABBA works well.
I can hear every one of your earworm images. I've always found for earworms, if I listen to the original, it will tend to go away, unless it's Green Onions by Booker T & the M.G's
I went to the movie theater to see Jersey Boys with my dad and I had like 3 or 4 Four Seasons songs playing in rotation in my head for a few months.
Love that show!
Hehe! I always have Escape (The Pina Colada Song) as my horrible earworm.
As a Clinical Psychologist I have to thank you for adding science to your art. Mahalo!!!
Thank you!
You are most welcome! I work clinically with a very tough population. I find your channel to be informative and entertaining, a perfect diversion for the end of my day. Your passion for your art is so obvious and innate. I appreciate your understanding of neurotransmitters and their function!
A friend of mine who is a music teacher, told me the best way to knock one of those stuck songs out of your head is to hum the theme song from Sanford and Son.
She unfortunately did not have any advice for what to do if the theme song then gets stuck itself.
I've had the same piece of 8bit video game music stuck on repeat in my brain since '89.
Better do an anagram.
Mine run 24/7. I tap my teeth to the current song running and I have worn my teeth way down from it! Sometimes it’s a recently heard song. Much more often they are random songs that I usually like but haven’t heard in a while. Does anyone else have this 24/7? It’s like music running in the background constantly. It doesn’t exactly bother me as it’s not super invasive. Unless it’s a song I hate which is not that common. It feels like I’m really impressionable. And of course I have associations with music very strongly. I can tell you where I was the first time I heard most any song especially from childhood. Playing right now on my mind’s jukebox: Red Hot Chili Peppers “Give it away” 😩 have not recently heard that.
I have these ear worms a lot and never knew what the phenomenon was called!! Thank you!
It's funny, I don't really experience earworms. Sure, some songs get triggered but they never "go on and on". I wonder what that says about me and my brain...
BTW it seems like your Scottish accent has gotten a bit stronger over the last few weeks. I now enjoy listening to you speaking even more, if that's even possible
I thought I was just crazy. Thank you for discussing this. I have a question. What does it mean when someone says something, and you immediately think of lyrics in a song? This happens to me often and then I start singing that song in my head. on loop! For example, someone said "superstar" the other day and then I started singing "ghetto superstar. that is what you are..." It's so maddening. Or someone says "doggone" and I start singing that song 'I'll be doggone...." I'll even break out in song in front of others (and I can't sing!). I know people think I'm nuts. It happens to me a lot! And I mean a few times a week. Everything turns into a damn song in my head. What is wrong with me?
Nothings wrong with you! Just your brain has associations between words and lyrics. I do it all the time as well!
My current one is " Breeding Violence " by Whitechapel. I'm not complaining since that band is badass.
Toss a coin to your witcheeer... o valley of pleeeenty, o valley of pleeenty... ooohhh....
Earworms are best driven out with punk rock in my experience. Dead Kennedys works a treat for me, nothing dissipates Baby Shark or other nastiness faster than "Too Drunk to Fuck" cranked to 11.
Interesting video. Although I've never heard of "Baby Shark."
Lucky you!
I've used the replacing the bad earworm with a good earworm before... Somehow I never thought of using Kylie - Can't get you out of my head... That's definitely going to be one of my goto replacements from now on 😁👍
Also would love to see you reacting to her singing sometime. Hint hint 😋
CHARLIE ZHOU SHEN singing in 2 songs in 2020 May in a TV Show
1. QIAN QIAN QIET GE (SUNSET SONG) Cantonese (Hong Kong dialect), Japanese, & Chinese (Mandarin).
2. ZOOBI DOOBI - Indian song
ua-cam.com/video/KupkKx-S99Y/v-deo.html
There's one song that I think becomes an earworm for most people, at least in the US. And it's so strong that you don't even have to hear it-it's enough to just read the words:
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small world after all
It's a small, small world.
I usually get an earworm of whatever piano piece I'm learning. The trick is to get the piece learnt before I hate the earworm. As I choose my own repertoir, it isn't a big pain. The annoying ones are the snatches of works by obscure composers thaf I've picked up from the radio. It can take ages to track those devils down.
I've had Robert Plant's "In the Mood" in my head for 25 years. I never even liked the song.
I once had the theme song for "I Dream of Jeannie" (a late 60s/early 70s TV show) and Susanne Vega's "Tom's Diner" stuck in my head for a week at the same time. They have a similar melody so that may be why they showed up at the same time. All I know is that I was ready to bang my head against the wall to get them out. 😁👍👍
Now you can just do a puzzle!
@@BethRoars
I woke up with "Ain't Making No Headlines" by Hank Williams, Jr. running thru my head this morning. So I am trying the read a book option. 😁
okay, after years of research on this subject i have found the cure for "song in my head" syndrome. this works for me 100% of the time and has for years. i've tried to get people to try this but as in most things they just laugh at me and move on. if you try this method don't just try it once for 5 seconds and then give up. so here it is:
1) you notice there's a tune running through your mind over and over and you want it to be gone.
2) you remember the method that i'm going to give you right now
3) you employ the method
4) the tune disappears
the method: begin playing the theme song from the 60's tv show "the addams family" in your mind, you can even snap your fingers at the appropriate moment. if you know the words then all the better. you only need to go through the first 10-20 seconds of the song. stop and move on with your day. in a minute or two you will notice (if you even bother to think about it) that:
1) you don't remember the song that initially was running through your head, and...
2) the "addams family" theme has also left your mind.
when i stumbled upon this method i found it worked instantly for me. however you may need to practice as the need arises. i believe you will discover that you will soon exert your mastery over this common human malady. best wishes
Ack, noooooo! That just puts another earworm in my head! I can't! lol
Mine is Rocket Scientists chorus
"I dream in red
Bright as morning sun and dark as dread
I dream in red
Fire in the sky where angels bled"