Rant number 118
To begin with, I want to make it clear that I really don't particularly like the word 'earworms.' Firstly because it conjures up some pretty unpleasant mental injuries and secondly because it is stupid word.
None the less it has been used to describe a song stuck in your head for quite a while now, so I suppose we are stuck with it.
I almost constantly have one song or another stuck in my head. At the moment I have Gotye's 'Somebody that I used to know' going round and round in my head. This in itself is ok, I quite like its 80s style.
The thing though is that I only have one bit of it in my head. That bit is the
Baa baa black sheep xylophone motif.
To say that this is distressing is an understatement of near biblical proportion.
I have been informed that a song in your head is actually a form or Auditory hallucination. Worried yet?
The worst thing is though that you don't have to like a song for it to creep its way in. No, the worst songs often have the ability to do this best. The radio has cursed me by internal choruses of 'Ray Charles,' a song so terrible it's almost criminal, on multiple occasions.
Bloody pain in the ass - got that in my head now.
On that note then
Rant over.
This happens to me most days - and always bloody tunes I don't want to remember!
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