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.
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 RU-vid. 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."
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.
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.
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.
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]
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.
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 RU-vid 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.
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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.
@@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
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."
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!
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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"
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
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. 🥰😉🤓
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).
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.
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!
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.
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...
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’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!
Sharona by the Knocks is one of the most memorable earworms due to its Wekre beat. Be warned should you decide to listen to it. Ones you have heard it it seems to comeback back only by thinking about it.
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 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. 😁
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
If you want to see the long aural memory at work, watch dance teacher Olga run the morning class at the Royal Ballet, World Ballet Day 2018. Really long complex list of instructions, and the whole class remembers the list, every time.
I was around 19 years old when I first started listening my favourite band (Duran Duran) I got New Moon On Monday's chorus stuck on my head. Had to listen to it over and over, until I learned the lyrics. Then it stopped. And now I got stuck with the song you sang in the end and although I recognize the melody I can remember which song is it. HELP.
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
It happened to me just recently Only once in hundreds of years but for some reason Gordon Lightfoot's "If You Could Read MY Mind" I'm not sure now if it lasted more than a day or if it was just remembering the actual occurrence from the day before but it definitely got stuck there for while.. I had just re-watched a video What makes this song great by Rick Beato analyzing it.
I've had that fecking Kylie song stuck in my head many times, also the bass line to Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel (I'll blame Reservoir Dogs for that one :)
I've only ever been able to get rid of an earworm by sleeping and sometimes they have lasted for a few days and it's far worse when it's a song you don't like, lol 😁
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Whenever someone says they need help getting rid of an earworm I always put on Bon Jovi's - You Give Love A Bad Name It works...at least replacing it with another earworm 😜
I cover high school and college sports, and they can play some hideous earworms over the sound system. The best cure for that . . . playing Sabaton's "Bismarck." "To lead the war machine, to rule the waves and lead the Kriegsmarine" beats "Happy" any day.
Let's make "Steven" anagrams... Let's see... Three e's, right? ;D Sorry I could not resist teasing. Big fan, Beth. Thanks for this explanation regarding ear worms (including the term itself).
react to the music of Pamela Cortes, from his collaboration whit Sergio Sacoto of rigth now the quarantine singing "Dicen" or his song "cristales rotos" pleaaasee
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?
Ac dc will blast out any ear worm. As long as they never ever produce a Christmas album or cover the Barney song they will remain the best curative. If they do either of those things it is surely the apocalypse and soon horror destruction and death wile free us all from the ear worm.
Is it common for musicians to get their own original compositions as earworms? It's been happening to me ever since I started doing it on a regular basis.
Yep. Same for me. I think that's a good thing, personally. The alternative are those tunes you work all night on and then can't remember the next day. I always abandon those songs immediately. If it's stuck in your head then chances are, it could get stuck in someone else's. And that's what we want as writers.
I have no clue what this 'Baby Shark' is.. and a I don't want to find out.. Heheh.. Any who.. mine is Top of the World (Carpenters) and Serenade by Mario Lanza.. they always switch.. This week it's Serenade via whistling the old tune.. OMG.. Don't read the comments if you are are an earworm victim!!! ..in the jungle.. the mighty jungle.. lol.. ohh.. well I was getting sick of Serenade..
have to complete it to get it out? but Hey Jude just repeats as it fades out instead of having a real ending! not knowing the words makes an earworm uncompleteable? and this explains why Penny Lane gets stuck and Yellow Submarine combines the two to complete the trifecta
