Earworm

Anybody here ever get an earworm? That's when a song gets stuck in your head and you can't make it stop.

I've heard that the cure is to listen to the actual song, but that has never worked for me, it only ingrains the song deeper into my brain.

Does anybody have a reliable cure?

Math. Count, do algebra, manipulate figures. Uses a different part of your brain and breaks things up.

I get them frequently. It's easy to replace the tune with another one, but sometimes hard to entirely stop. Never tried bigmike's solution, but it sounds credible. The term originated, by the way, in Germany, where it's called OHRWÜRM.

I've tried variations of bigmike's method with no luck. The tune just overwhelms whatever else I'm trying to think of. Like right now, even as I type this, the theme song to iCarly is slowly driving me over the edge. That's what I get for being a good parent!!! Grrrr...

LMAO.

:music:
So wake up the members of my nation
Its your time to be
Theres no chance unless you take one
Everytime
Just see the brighter side
Of every situation
Somethings are meant to be
So gimme your best
And leave the rest to me.
Leave it all to me
Leave it all to me
Just leave it all to me



Try "Fruit Salad" from the Wiggles.

I can send you the mp3 ring tone for your phone if you want.

hmm... Einstein should have earworms quite often

Oh, so you wanna play dirty, do ya, bigmike?!?

Ahem....*tweeee....me-me-me-me-meeeee...." cough..cough...
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, a horse is a horse of course, of course,
and no one can talk to a horse, of course,
that is, of course, unless the horse,
is the Faaaaamous Mr. Ed....

Not even close.

We'll just go straight nuclear on you:

(I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, oh no! oh!
I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot no deputy, ooh, ooh, oo-ooh.)
Yeah! all around in my home town,
They're tryin' to track me down;
They say they want to bring me in guilty
For the killing of a deputy,
For the life of a deputy.
But I say:

Oh, now, now. oh!
(I shot the sheriff.) - the sheriff.
(but I swear it was in self defence.)

Wow, of all the songs that have ever drilled a hole in my brain, that's one that never even came close. Probably because I love Cream era Clapton and that song is like the height of the depths he plunged to in the '70's.

They're creepy and they're spooky,
Mysterious and ooky,
They're altogether kooky,
The Addams Family!