- Engage with the song. Try to actually listen to it all the way through!
- Distract yourself with another song
- Try your best not to thInk about it and it will slowly fade on its own
Thursday, December 15, 2016
Why can't I get that song out of my head!
Ever have a song stuck in your head hours, days, or even weeks after last listening to it? It turns out that there is scientific reasoning for why some songs stick in our heads more than others. According to the American Psycological Association, these songs are called 'earworms'. They tend to have a faster pace, easy to remember melody and a jump or repeat setting apart from other songs like it. These songs also tend to get more air time on radios, which can actually be predicted. If the song has commonly found melodic shapes in western music, than it tends to stick around a little longer than its wanted. If you really want to get rid of the song in your head they offered a few suggestions:
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Catchy songs are called earworms? While that is both hilarious and disturbing, what that word immediately brought to mind was the YouTube music mixer DJ Earworm. Have you heard of him? With only around 800k subscribers he has a medium-sized channel, but his year-end mashups of the usually 25, sometimes 50 most popular American pop songs of the year always reach into the millions of views. Certain years have been mentioned on radio or television, and their San Fransisco-based creator has been professionally commissioned to make mashups because of the attention he got from them. But be warned if you look them up.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's because they're made from the 25-50 catchiest songs of the year, but they're definitely the type to stick in your head for weeks, like some sort of mega-evolved final-form earworm.