Why do songs get stuck in your head?

subconscious maths

OCD

Depends on the song...

If it's Thunderstruck by AcDc, it's cause you're on the highway doing a buck twenty...

If it's Barbie girl...

Making up for some lost time here, don't know why I never discovered them earlier, but loving the maiden right now!

If you want to get a song out of your head, I have a way that will never fail you.

Hum a few bars of the Hawaii 5-0 theme song. It will cleanse your mind and not give you a nasty after-effect.

I had "Walking on the Moon" in my head for about 3 weeks. Now it's Wet wet wet :(

I think of myself as a human jukebox sometimes. I'm OK with this, most of the time.

But sometimes a song comes on that I don't like and it fakin piziz me off, lol.



Last Edited by Desert Dude on 05/25/2014 07:25 AM

Because you have a demon, that's why.

yes all the time

When we listen to a song, it triggers a part of the brain called the auditory cortex. when you play part of a familiar song to research subjects, the participants' auditory cortex automatically filled in the rest -- in other words, their brains kept "singing" long after the song had ended.

same exact thing happens when I play a violent video Game... I can lay down in bed and keep playing the game for over an hour...

earworms

what i found odd was radio 3, a bbc classical music station here in the UK, did pieces on earworms last year. trying to explain them away.

that perked my ears up a bit. why would they even bother mentioning them, in between classical music pieces? they did it a few times too. almost justifying them in their listeners heads?

what IF the pre pole shift electromagnetic changes of the planet are creating these memory echoes in ALL of our heads, and our favourite, and most annoying songs too, get replayed inside our heads over and over because of them?

what IF?

this shit has been happening a lot to me just this last few years when I think back.

How so?

You have a cyrus in you.

Sometimes it happens when you haven't heard the songs for years though

There's no off switch either!

Miley?

If you jump I will jump too, as the saying goes. Off that cliff.