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09 Dec 2020, 6:00 pm

Now I have the John Lennon song So This Is Christmas stuck in my head.
It came on the radio tonight at work and now it keeps on playing in a loop and won't stop! I hope I don't have the song playing on a loop in my head all night, because it makes it harder for me to fall asleep! Agh!! !

It's not his voice that gets stuck in my head exactly, it's the background bit with the higher pitched choir-type singing. It's so vividly stuck in my head now that I can physically feel part of my brain, somewhere at the back of my head, where the song is playing in my head. Help!! ! I'm not even keen on this song!! !

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09 Dec 2020, 6:07 pm

Joe90 wrote:

A term for "songs getting stuck in your head on a loop".

Often when I hear a new song on the radio and then download it on to my phone from YouTube and listen to it, it becomes stuck in my head and plays on a loop.

I know everybody gets this but it drives me mad! It's like a tinnitus but in my brain instead of my ears, but still just as annoying and distracting.

I've tried listening to the newly-downloaded song on my phone a few times today so that the loop might break in my head, but it didn't. I tried memorizing the end of the song so that I can play the end in my head (apparently that's supposed to trick your brain into thinking that the song is finished), but each time I do that the same loop plays over again, over and over. Aaaarrrggghhhh!! !

I've even tried doing a puzzle but my brain seems to multitask; playing a song on a loop whilst being able to solve a puzzle! And I've even tried (silent) reading but then I start to read the words in the tune of the song in my head!

Jesus Christ, WHEN WILL THIS LOOP STOP???! ! !

Ps. It's the song "Hymn for the weekend" by Coldplay. I heard it on the radio the other day and decided I liked it, but now the main chorus won't stop playing in my head!

I often have songs stuck in my head. They usually stay there for a long time, up to multiple days. They come back and get stuck again often. It used to prevent me from sleeping as a kid, but now it's just more like background music. lol

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09 Dec 2020, 11:44 pm

I've had the same Farrah Abraham song stuck in my head for years. I can't stand the song and she's a very bad singer.

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10 Dec 2020, 7:20 am

Never heard of Farrah Abraham.

I guess I am lucky! :lol:

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10 Dec 2020, 7:24 am

Joe90 wrote:

Now I have the John Lennon song So This Is Christmas stuck in my head.

It came on the radio tonight at work and now it keeps on playing in a loop and won't stop! I hope I don't have the song playing on a loop in my head all night, because it makes it harder for me to fall asleep! Agh!! !

It's not his voice that gets stuck in my head exactly, it's the background bit with the higher pitched choir-type singing. It's so vividly stuck in my head now that I can physically feel part of my brain, somewhere at the back of my head, where the song is playing in my head. Help!! ! I'm not even keen on this song!! !

The only cure is a counter irritant. Listen to another ear worm.

Like ..."Who Let the Dogs Out". That will push Lennon and his choir out of your head.

You COULD use "the Baby Shark Song" but that song is worse torture than and "Who Let the Dogs Out" and "So This is Xmas" put together IMHO.

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10 Dec 2020, 10:21 am

naturalplastic wrote:

Joe90 wrote:

Now I have the John Lennon song So This Is Christmas stuck in my head.

Actually, those 2 songs don't get stuck in my head. I have Baby Shark on my music player app on my phone and it doesn't get in my head.

Usually with me songs get stuck in my head if I don't hear them often. The more my brain gets used to a song the less of an ear worm it becomes. But no, I am not going to listen to John Lennon's Christmas song 100 times over. :lol:

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10 Dec 2020, 7:35 pm

Better than earwigs.

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10 Dec 2020, 8:05 pm

It’s a small world after all...

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11 Dec 2020, 5:47 am

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It’s a small world after all...

Nope, that doesn't get stuck in my head. It's mostly certain pop music they play repeatedly on the radio at work.

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11 Dec 2020, 10:04 am

"One a scale of 1 to 10, how prone are you to earworms?"

... I'd give myself either a 7 or an 11. No pun intended.
Even to songs or music I do not choose pay attention to or coherent understood -- I'd get it, old and new.
I've yet to understand which songs do get stuck and which doesn't.

If I have any earworms now, I got like 5 separate songs currently in my head.
Sometimes 2 or 3 songs plays simultaneously. Involuntarily.

Apparently on random shuffle and the longest living amongst the alledged playlist had been spanning for over 3 weeks now. :lol:

But yes.
Even my head can get sick of any song and look for something new.
Enough for me to start preferring to listen to tinnitus over any song instead.

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11 Dec 2020, 10:07 am

This was in my head for ages thanks to TikTok shitposting.

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11 Dec 2020, 1:06 pm

If we get tired of those songs, jingles,etc., etc....etc. that "stick in our minds" - take as much quiet time as possible.

Can it be asked that after enough quiet time, "might quiet environments increasingly 'stick in our minds' after awhile?"

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11 Dec 2020, 1:54 pm

Joe90 wrote:

dragonsanddemons wrote:

It’s a small world after all...

Nope, that doesn't get stuck in my head. It's mostly certain pop music they play repeatedly on the radio at work.

It doesn’t get stuck in my head, either, but my mom thinks it’s the go-to earworm to defeat all other earworms. Granted she got stuck on the “Small World” ride at Disney World for half an hour with the music still going the whole time and I didn’t.

I hate the song “Somebody That I Used to Know,” I didn’t like it the first time I heard it and then my roommate in college played it on repeat for an hour without using headphones, and now I find it extremely obnoxious. I got a lot of pop music at college and then more when I worked at a department store for a year after that (I just cleaned, but I had to listen to the “top 20” or whatever station they constantly played the entire time), I have been very much overdone on it.

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11 Dec 2020, 4:04 pm

"There aint no bugs on me

There aint no bugs on me

There might be bugs on some of you mugs

But there aint not bugs on meeee...."

The cute puppy that lips syncs that song on that commercial has been off the air for years. But he still haunts my ears from time to time!

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