Earworm of the day
Dec. 30th, 2008 07:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ksmithMy earworms usually turn out to be songs I hate. One hypothesis I read concerning why a song I hate would insist upon looping through my brain like a skipping LP is that while I may not like that particular piece of music, my brain does. Maybe this ties in with why these things are usually bits of songs that were pretty popular. They flipped a vast number of switches and wormed into people's brains, and most of those people didn't mind.
Yet another earworm began looping yesterday, but for a nice of pace, it's a song I actually like. Tapestry, the title cut of Carole King's album. It was, iirc, one of the first albums I ever bought, and the first popular album as well. I played it over and over, to the point that I could sing the whole thing by heart. I still remember some of the songs in their entirety. Sang Tapestry all the way through while standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, just to see if I could, and I could, save for the odd word. And as I did, I really listened to the words for the first time, and my, but that's an unpleasant song. Eerie.
In times of deepest darkness...I've seen him dressed in black---now my tapestry's unraveling...he's come to take me back...he's come to take me back.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I wouldn't go with that man. The singer, however, apparently does.
Yet another earworm began looping yesterday, but for a nice of pace, it's a song I actually like. Tapestry, the title cut of Carole King's album. It was, iirc, one of the first albums I ever bought, and the first popular album as well. I played it over and over, to the point that I could sing the whole thing by heart. I still remember some of the songs in their entirety. Sang Tapestry all the way through while standing at the kitchen sink yesterday, just to see if I could, and I could, save for the odd word. And as I did, I really listened to the words for the first time, and my, but that's an unpleasant song. Eerie.
In times of deepest darkness...I've seen him dressed in black---now my tapestry's unraveling...he's come to take me back...he's come to take me back.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I wouldn't go with that man. The singer, however, apparently does.
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Date: 2008-12-30 04:03 pm (UTC)In the "it could be worse" department, my current earworm is, apropos of last week's weather, "The Battle on the Ice" from Aleksandr Nevski (or maybe that's looking forward to Wednesday's game at Wrigley?). Fortunately, in the "it has been worse" department, it seems to have replaced a certain Police song that got misused in a deodorant commercial back when it was current... and it's the commercial that's the earworm.
— Jaws (about 225 km SE of you)
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Date: 2008-12-30 07:02 pm (UTC)Yeah, but I almost always prefer the indirect explanation.