They bore into your head. They won’t let go. There’s no known cure. Earworms [songs that get stuck in your head] can attack almost anyone at almost any time.
I know the feeling of having a song stuck in my head. And I can assure you,
it wasn’t a good feeling. You just keep on hearing it. Over, and over and over. Interestingly, it’s surprisingly common, you could almost call it a disease by now! After a couple surveys, some very interesting results were found (quite shocking actually).
98% of all the test subjects had had a song stuck in their head at one or other time.
Out of all the songs that were stuck:
14% of the people tried to listen to the end of the song in an attempt to get it our of their heads!
and finally, the top 10 songs that were most frequently stuck in the 559 students’ heads, with an average age of 23 is…
- Other. Everyone has his or her own worst earworm.
- Chili’s “Baby Back Ribs” jingle.
- “Who Let the Dogs Out”
- “We Will Rock You”
- Kit-Kat candy-bar jingle (”Gimme a Break …”)
- “Mission Impossible” theme
- “YMCA”
- “Whoomp, There It Is”
- “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”
- “It’s a Small World After All”
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