The Best Way to Dispose Of Earworms.

[Jabberwocky 46]

We all get them: Earworms, those horrible songs that get stuck in the head and simply will NOT go!

 

I have one right now, thanks to some breath-taking cruelty on Facebook and as a "Cure," I`m now playing ELO very very loudly. I hope it works but its a very strong earworm and its haunting me.

 

Tell me, my sexy little snot-gobblers, whats your earworm and how do you make it go away...?

Edited February 28, 2012 by Jabberwocky
Damn typoes

[Joto 11]

What song was that Jabbers? There's a worm a the bottom of my garden?

Turn ELO up a bit louder! we're all going to keep putting this ear worm back.

[Jabberwocky 46]

I will NOT be intimidated by that horrible song!!!!!!!!!!

[Jabberwocky 46]

Oh god its back again!!!!! ITS IN MY HEAD!!!!!!!!

[Redyam 10]

Sings:

 

"Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

 

[Jabberwocky 46]

Sings:

 

"Never gonna give you up

Never gonna let you down

Never gonna run around and desert you

Never gonna make you cry

Never gonna say goodbye

Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you"

 

 

 

My day just got worse!

[medusa 16]

I've found that the best way is to replace them with a slightly less annoying song. Stuff that you like listening to won't do the job- it has to be something else horribly catchy- but if you replace catchy and unbearable with catchy and don't mind it too much then that seems to work for me.

 

I had WhitneybleedinHouston running through my head for ages (fairly predictably) but found that the Macarena displaced it pretty well. I don't like the Macarena, but I feel a lot less murderous when it's whizzing round my head than I do with WhitneybleedinHouston stuck there, so that's a good trade off as far as I'm concerned.

 

The logical progression of this is that you can eventually get round to something that you actually like, via a dozen or so earworms which are gradually less and less annoying.

 

Of course there's always a risk that talking about them is going to take you all the way back to square 1 though, like typing about WhitneybleedinHouston- gah!

[VideoPro 10]

Whitney Houston was great in that Mad Max film.

[Muldoon 10]

I'm a Barbie girl, in my Barbie world

 

 

Heh !

 

 

my work here is done....

 

mu ha ha ha ha :banana:

[Bethsmummy 10]

Mambo number 5

 

A little bit of monica and all that. lol.

[Draggletail 58]

What song was that Jabbers? There's a worm a the bottom of my garden?

I read this post 40 minutes ago.

 

The end result is that I can't get "There's a worm a the bottom of my garden" out of my head and I keep singing it, in fact the whole family is now wandering around the house singing it

[mym8scallmeh 10]

Everybody sing along now........................

 

There's a worm at the bottom of my garden,

And his name is Wiggly Woo.

There's a worm at the bottom of my garden

And all that he can do

Is wiggle all day and wiggle all night--

The neighbors say what a terrible fright!

There's a worm at the bottom of my garden,

And his name is Wiggly,

Wig-Wig-Wiggly,

Wig-Wig-Wiggly Woo!

I will NOT be intimidated by that horrible song!!!!!!!!!!

 

Hehe:hihi: