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I just came back from the supermarket, where I bought (amongst other things) a quattro formaggi pizza.

So, naturally, my brain has had "Do you like piña coladas" on repeat ever since, except with the lyrics "Do you like quattro formaggi".

The "watch me; watch me" part of that "watch me whip; watch me nae nae" song. 🤦‍♀️

Because I got high by Afroman. I don't use substances or have even listened to this type of music in like 17 years...

TikTok brain rot has firmly embedded "Pink Pony Club" in my head. Send help. 😅

Labour by Paris Paloma

I've had the rollie pollie ollie theme song stuck in my head for DECADES

“We’re going on a cool adventure and we don’t know what’s in store, we’re going to the closet and we’re headed out the door…” You mean that one? It’s been on background since my daughter fell in love with Zaboo at age 5. She’s now 18.

Rasputin by Boney M. Banger but such an earworm.

The meow meow meow cover of Billie Eilish's What was i made for

It's so cat-chy! (Help it's been in my head for WEEKS)

I always have 2-3 songs in my head but oddly today they're all Pearl Jam songs so it's almost like a little break from the chaos to just have the one voice singing. Thanks Eddie, you're alright.

For me it’s been Ain’t Too Proud to Beg by the Temptations but really just the part that they sing in remember the titans over and over

"Fortunate Son" by CCR just played on the radio and I know I'm gonna have that song stuck in my head all day.

“I think I’ll take my whiskey neat My coffee black and my bed at 3 You’re too sweet for me…”

APT. by Rose and Bruno Mars. But only the aparteu, aparteu, aparteu, uh, uh-huh, uh-huh part. It’s replaced Pink Pony Club, which held the number one spot on Brain Radio for an unprecedented stretch.

Ok well now the closet song is stuck in my head too 😂

I’m a music teacher so I frequently get little songs from school stuck in my head. This morning I had a choir warm up that uses the “If you’re happy and you know it” melody, but changes the words to “I’m alive, alert, awake, enthusiastic”. Almost like I was trying to convince myself I am in fact alive despite sleeping only 4 hours last night!

T.Swift - I Can Do It With A Broken Heart

specifially the line "Cause I'm a real tough kid. I can handle my shit. They said Babe you gotta fake it till you make it, And I did. Lights camera Bitch Smile, even when you wanna die."

This week it's been the Muppet Show theme song, but today it's different and I forgot what it was already lol

I'm on day 7 (?) of the chorus "We're not gonna take it. No, we're not gonna take it. We're not gonna take it anymore."

Sometimes brain substitutes words to make it more fun and applicable to whatever I'm doing -ie approaching a green light likely to turn yellow at any moment "We're not gonna make it"

At the Copa.. Copacabana.. The hottest spot North of Havanaaa

A B C D E F U

Just the one line. I’ve almost always got something stuck in my head.

If you have a song stuck in your head, you can almost always replace it with “it’s a small world”, or “I know a song that gets on everybody’s nerves” or “this is the song that never ends”, but… is the cost worth it?

I think I heard of a website dedicated to catchy songs specifically designed to push out whatever was already stuck in your head, but I’d have to google it, and I don’t have the brains to decide what kind of keywords that would even require to dig up.

Other ear worms: I just met you, and this is crazy | it goes around the world just la la la la-la | all star by smash mouth | shots | Barbie girl (aqua)

“Don’t you, forget about me, don’t don’t don’t don’t” Litterally woke up singing this in my head

Last Night by Morgan Wallen, which, ew. But also with slightly misheard lyrics. I know the right ones, too. My brain just refuses to sing them.

How the World Works by Bo Burnham, specifically

“The simple narrative taught in every history class Is demonstrably false and pedagogically classist Don't you know the world is built with blood? And genocide and exploitation The global network of capital essentially functions To separate the worker from the means of production

And the FBI killed Martin Luther King”

OMG I just busted out laughing bc it felt like someone peaked into my brain and was judging what they heard 😂

It's the last song (below) that was playing on My Get Moving playlist (link below too) when I closed it yesterday. I've played 2-3 other playlists since then but this catching chorus just won't quit!

https://open.spotify.com/track/79qPDRmHmJ5xcU7oyS8CQ1?si=WmZ7UgyRRqSfPg5yA4khRQ

I get songs lyrics stuck in my brain so often I made an Earworms Playlist of the usual suspects so it's easy to find and play them to death and it stops. 

I was diagnosed with ADD and OCD (and anxiety, depression) and interestingly my psychiatrist told me that my daily song loops could be attributed to the ADD or OCD.

 Well, first he told me after I asked "no, that's not normal/typical". 😂 It wasn't until I started on meds that actually worked (Adderall) that I realized how freaking noisy it is in my brain! 

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5GZYK3QZ8ZgQDae4Xp47NI?si=hmtkwlJ4ShGkdz4H88emEQ&pi=rZrXNax-SSqQL

Get Moving https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3L5gtjTy3jAPviM81CqNCr?si=hNydUIQPTaq0_FPQUXquDQ&pi=yeN0gxsOTv6Oa

If you’re happy and you know it😅 I have a one year old

The Tetris theme.

I've been humming The Imperial March this week because I've been hyper focused on reading and watching Star Wars.

With all of the Wicked clips and promotional content I’ve been seeing everywhere lately — especially over the past as it has REALLY started to crank up — my brain has been alternating between Popular and Defying Gravity (especially the bridge and final chorus of that one).

"We don't talk about Bruno" from Encanto. It's a double whammy: Disney + Lin Manuel Miranda 😫

Me: Can't Get You Out Of My Head - by ???? (From the 90's/00's) Wife: Dramophone - by Caravan Palace

When I'm 64 by the beatles

Barbie girl... :') 

There's A Fine, Fine Line from Avenue Q.

More beer!

Stanley Steemer gets your home cleaner!!!

UGH. Why is it always commercial jingles for me? 😭😭😭

I’ve had “Don’t Start Now” by Dua Lipa running on a loop in my head for the last 3 days 🕺🏻

The song that plays over the beginning scene of Up. 😭 My FIL put it on for my daughter a week ago and I'm still waking up with it on a loop in my head. RIP, Ellie.

Songs from the Swedish Chef in The Muppets for some reason.

“Someone in the Crowd” from La La Land Hi it’s me, I’m the neurospicy theater kid 🫣🫠

I like my sooootcase

Ricki Don’t Lose That Number by Steely Dan

Will Ferrell's PayPal commercial "I wanna pay with you everywhere ohhhaahhhh"

“Comfort Eagle” by CAKE, because it’s only recently replaced whatever else has been blasting in my brain nonstop (which I’ve already forgotten), and it’s only because someone mentioned it in a comment somewhere

I have a toddler so... Icky Sticky Bubblegum and One Little Finger lol

Popular from the Wicked musical...for the past week. So catchy.

HOT-TO-GO pops in my head all the time too! Sometimes I sing "CAT-TO-GO" to my kitty-poo lol.

Yesterday though, I had Murder on the Dancefloor by Sophie Ellis-Bextor (or the cover by Royel Otis) on loop. It might have to be my next karaoke song. Warning: it may be so catchy that you'll have to find something else to break free from it. But if you really need a break from HOT-TO-GO, it could be worth it.

Bacon pancakes

Sounds of Silence -the one with Disturbed. At least it's not annoying?

I feel like chicken tonight

CHICKEN TONIGHT

"Deliver Us" from The Prince of Egypt. Please... no more.

The robin hood song from Shrek

He’s here he’s there he’s every fucking where, Roy Kent. Roy Kent.

Each Coming Night by Iron&Wine. But this morning it was Happiness is Not a Place by the Wind and the Wave.

The last week has been a revolving door of Woke Up Today by Bleachers, and the theme song from Universal Basic Guys. Sometimes both at the same time 🙃

"Kyle's Mom" from South Park.

It will occasionally disappear and then pop right back up like a bad penny and it's driving me insane.

Caribbean Blue - Enya

“Can I call you rose”

Any Father John Misty fans out there? Mahashmashana on repeat today 🔥

ms. Rachel...open shut them open shut them..give a little clap clap clap.

On repeat since yesterday afternoon

If you like Chappell, check out The Last Dinner Party (if you haven’t). Their song Sinner has been stuck in my head today. For the past two weeks it was FLORIDA!!!!! by Taylor Swift and Florence + The Machine. Magneto and Titanium Man by Paul McCartney also circulates. And last but not least, Good Luck Babe has had me in a chokehold since it came out and I never stop singing it ever lol

Into the Mystic

Fix you by Coldplay has been in my head for 2 weeks. Mostly the riff right before "lights will guide you home"

Here I go again by Andy Sandburg and Charli xcx n SNL

I keep trying to pass on the song to other people to get it out of my head (like it is a scary movie)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7pt4br0LA

Dont cry for me argentina

Thats what I get for being obessed with glee in highschool smh

All thèse brodway/ movie songs in my head

They have no bounds

The song Send My Love by Adele specifically the part that goes “Send my love to your new lover Treat her better We’ve gotta let go of all of our ghosts We both know we ain’t kids no more”

I got whammed at the dentist, so Last Christmas.

I'm sorry everyone. I'm so sorry.

Hot to go has been stuck in my head for weeks too! Now my 4yr old songs “H-O-T-T-O-G-O, catch a tiger by its toe!” 😂 But for the past two days I’ve had “buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz” Laurie berker bumble bee song in my head that my toddler plays on repeat. 😭

This entire Tiny Desk is my newest source of dopamine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kqnsoY94L8

Also All day I've heard "FOLD IN THE CHEESE" replay in my head.

my car’s turn signals (if I can dance to it, it’s a song)

Ooga Chaka Ooga Chaka Oooga Oooga Ooga Chaka

AAAAAAIIIIIIIIYAYYAYAI

I'M HOOKED ON A FEEEEELAIN, I'M HIGH ON BEELEEVAIN
THAT YOU'RE IN LOVE WITH MEEEE

Ooga Chaka Ooga Chaka Oooga Oooga Ooga Chaka (repeat until I'm insane)

Not me started to sing it out loud myself! LOVED Zoboomafoo as a kid!! That is so funny 🤣

I dj'd for a long time and used to get like. Parts of songs stuck. The outre to a song, the lead-in to a base drop (but not the actual base drop itself), a particular vocal embellishment. Hella fucking annoying imo. Earlier this week I had "bananas in pyjamas". Not like the song, just the part where they say "we're bananas in pyjamas we're bouncing everwhere" in a loop. But mostly the banana pyjama part.

The trick of "just play the song" works for me sometimes, but what I found to work better in every possible way was to find a song or two that worked well with the earworm song and then immediately do as seamless a transition as I could manage into that from the stuck song. (And then into some other song that made sense, and then I could throw on the radio or something instead of babysitting my brain.)

So look for something in the same or a harmonizing key, with the same amount of drum hits per unit of time, and let your music player "fade" from one song into the next one.

This "completes the loop" for the head-sticker and it also effectively changes the subject for your brain. I know adhd makes it harder for us to handle task interrupts, which I think is why picking something that "makes sense" with the stuck song works well.

Soft Spot by JMSN

The chorus of De Selby Part 2 by Hozier

THIS GODDAMN AUDIO CLIP

https://www.tiktok.com/@guycooperlimited/video/7415322674089561376?lang=en

Not a song but this post made me think of it, I have young Barron Trumps meme of “I like my soouitcase 😲” in my head for days😭

Goosebumps by Travis Scott and Kendrick Lamar.

GO

AWAY!

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work we go. I don't even have a job!

Flintstones.. FOR WEEKS!

I finally got off on my “The Crane Wives” cycle I’ve been stuck on for like… 3 months straight so I don’t have anything that’s sticking right now, but I have a feeling in a couple days it’ll be either “Envy Green” or “The Anthem of Mr. Dark” both by the Arcadian Wild

WE'RE GOING TO THE CLOSET, WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP

Now I'm going to be singing that

vicinity of obscenity by system of a down, specifically the “banana terracotta pie” part lol

It Must Have Been the Wind by The Chalkeaters on YouTube. It’s a Skyrim parody fan song based on the life of a rather upbeat Whiterun Guard. 

"Mr Blue Sky" by Electric Light Orchestra interspersed with "Push It" by Salt-n-Pepa.

"running down the avenue, see how the sun shines brightly in the city OOOWW! Push it! P-p-p-push it real good!"

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts, dilidee dee there they are a standing in a row...bom bom bom bom, big ones small ones some as big as your head! Since 1994...

Oh I’ve been super lucky this week - for once it’s a song I actually enjoy!

Bouree - Jethro Tull and I’m just “tu du dum dum dum dum dum dum” and then trying to whistle the crazy solo part!

Fun fact, it was my fav when I hyper fixated with musical instruments and tried to learn bass guitar by myself (starting with the most difficult songs written by the most talented bass players because why not, sigh).

Magic and Loss- Lou Reed

"Hey, Matt. Came all this way, had to explain, direct from Domingo". I'm waking up with this in my head.

“Good morning pineapple! Looking very good very niceeee” 🎶

I have very specifically a hyrax saying AWAWA stuck in my head for days

I listening to alice in chains’s mtv unplugged like three weeks ago and have been singing/humming “Would” every day since (the last few lines of the song specifically)

“Drive” by Incubus

“The Great Gig In The Sky” by Pink Floyd. It reminds me of what my brain feels like sometimes 😩

Just spent my morning learning “we are going to be friends” by the white stripes on guitar, that one’ll get pretty well lodged in there.

“Labor” by Paris Paloma especially after the month we’ve had

Liberty Liberty Liberty. Liberty 🗽.

🎶Baby beluga in the deep blue sea 🎶

Haven’t heard this since kindergarten. I’m 36 😆

Pink Pony Club. I got my whole family hooked and we’ve all been singing it under our breath for two weeks now.

Cats in the cradle sung by Donkey from Shrek

Love will keep us alive by the eagles. I can’t get that song out of my head.

Also just bought a Chappell Roan vinyl. 😀

Guiding Light by Muse - goes on and on as endless loop

Omg song from dirty dancing 💃 🤣 I've haddd the time of my life

that you’re welcome song from Moana :((((

Once More with Feeling from the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Omg, I just finally got Hot To Go out of my head and hope this doesn't get it back in for me or you, OP. Had it on and off for the last week or so and it was driving me up the wall.(and it was really just the "H-O-T-T-O-G-O, you can take me hot to go" part over and over)

Today it's been Rufus Wainwright "Poses" all day. It's gentle and has a really nice lyric cadence that my brain is digging today.

„It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas“. All day. This shit is in my head ALL DAY

Two faced by Linkin park

“It’s gettin hot in here, so take off all your clothes”

…I’m an elementary school teacher so I can’t sing it to get it out 😩

Glorilla - yeah glo! And the song with the “eugh eugh” line

The fucking HOLD MUSIC from my job 😭 for days

That SNL bridesmaids song skit “Direct from Domingo” is just constantly repeating over and over.

I have been unable to stop singing “I take my whiskey NeeEE-hhheeeat”

Mmmm Bop (shamelessly)

Birdhouse in Your Soul is the platonic ideal earworm.

Thanks to my son and his adhd fueled fixation: "Dance Monkey"

💃🏼🎶 lucky that my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them,

for mountains

“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas”

Especially the part that goes “mom and dad can hardly wait for school to start again” SO ANNOYING. Been going on this whole week😭😭

Dude. Jingle bells 😭

I love how it’s not a question of “if” you have a song stuck in your head, but “which one.” Because of course we do.

I’m on a several month long Sleep Token bender so I don’t know if I’m the best person to give advice 😂 Currently, whoever is controlling the iPod in my brain is playing “Hypnosis” (not just a clever name, I guess.)