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It's gotta be you something's gotta give now
Everyone else in the room can see it
Only you i need you here with me now
Everyone else but you

And if you ('Cause it's you)
You want me to (Oh, it's you)
We'll be doing what we'll do

Let's make a move
And if you ('Cause it's you)
You want me to (Oh, it's you)
Just pretending that we're cool
And we know it too

And I'll be gone, gone tonight
Singing, singing, singing the best song ever
Been holding on so tight
With nothing in between
Nothing can come between

You and I na na na na na na
We're only getting older, baby
Na na na na na na
Does it ever drive you crazy?

If you like to do the things
You know that we shouldn't do nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
If you like to do whatever
You've been dreaming about
We got a whole lot of history
So let's start right now

You're insecure tried playing it cool
Don't know what for when I'm looking at you
Don't need make-up be brave, be brave
Cause the way that you are is enough

And if you hey girl, I'm waiting on ya
You want me to i'm waiting on ya
C'mon and let me sneak you out
Let's make a move and if you
And have a celebration you want me to
A celebration
The music's up, the windows down

And your little things gone tonight
Singing, singing, singing i won't forget her
The way that I'll be holding on too tight
With nothing in between
Nothing can come between

You and I na na na na na na
We're only getting older, baby
Na na na na na na
Does it ever drive you crazy?

If you like to do the things
You know that we shouldn't do nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me down
If you like to do whatever
You've been dreaming about nobody, nobody
Nobody can drag me

You don't know it's gotta be one thing
Let's go crazy, crazy, crazy
Now I can't remember how it goes but I know
I know for sure baby you're perfect
Stood by me got perfect

And I'll be gone, gone tonight
Singing, singing, singing the best song ever
Been holding on so tight singing
Nothing can come between

You and I you don't know
It's gotta be one thing
I think it went crazy, crazy, crazy
Now I can't remember how it goes
I think it went yeah, yeah, yeah
I think it go, oh
Never, never, never, never drive you crazy

If you like to do the things
You know that we shouldn't do
Nobody, nobody (Na na na na)
Nobody can drag me down
If you like to do whatever
You've been dreaming about i think it go, oh
Never, never, never, never drive you crazy

You don't know
The things that we shouldn't do
I think it went crazy, crazy, crazy
Now I can't remember how it goes
The things that you've been dreaming about

I think it go, oh
Let get some and live while we're young

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of Earworms's song "Directions" convey a sense of intense emotion and urgency in a relationship. The singer expresses a strong desire for the presence and attention of a specific person, emphasizing that it has to be them, and nobody else in the room can compare to them. This person holds a special significance to the singer, as evident in lines such as "Only you I need you here with me now" and "Everyone else but you." The repeated refrain of "‘Cause it's you" reinforces the idea of a deep connection and understanding between the two individuals.

There is a sense of determination and willingness to take risks for love in the lyrics, demonstrated by phrases like "And if you want me to, we'll be doing what we do." The idea of just pretending to be cool while both parties know the true depth of their feelings adds a layer of complexity to the relationship dynamic. The theme of embracing vulnerability and authenticity is also present, as seen in the lines "Don't need makeup, be brave, be brave, ‘Cause the way that you are is enough."

The chorus of the song transitions to reflections on the passage of time and the inevitable process of growing older. The question posed, "Does it ever drive you crazy?" suggests a contemplation of the challenges and uncertainties that come with aging and changing circumstances. Despite these uncertainties, the lyrics emphasize the importance of seizing the moment and creating lasting memories, as indicated by the references to celebration, holding on tight, and living in the present.

The concluding verses of the song touch on themes of self-acceptance, appreciation for the perfect imperfections of a partner, and a sense of nostalgia for shared experiences. The energetic and repetitive nature of the lyrics conveys a sense of enthusiasm and passion, inviting the listener to join in the exuberant celebration of love and life. Overall, the lyrics of "Directions" by Earworms capture the essence of love, longing, and the thrill of embracing spontaneity and youthfulness in relationships.

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Most interesting comment from YouTube:

Bettina Lose

2y↑3

@Flora Nightingale Then thank God, that you don't have them😅😅😅
It's EVERYWHERE & EVERYTIME, and everything which is "too much" can become a burden.
Just imagine for example :
"Hey Jude" is stucking with you...just the beginning🤷🏻‍♀️
OVER AND OVER AGAIN!!!
You talk to someone : "Hey Jude..."the person is asking or answering "Hey Jude" -
It feels, as if someone helds a small loudspeaker to your ears and the beginning starts again, and again and AGAIN!
It's hard to follow the conversation without screaming in between "Hey Jude"
You are in public - it's there🙄you hear the sorounding noises like everyone else...but with the f... song, that's stuck with you.
You go to bed - it's there!
You sleep - it's there!
You wake up and the first thing you notice : it's there😖😖😖
You can nothing do against it🤷🏻‍♀️😖
Just try it out - play a few seconds of a song, over and over again and it will annoy you pretty soon🙄

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Brew

3y↑1.1K

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Nick Harrison

3y↑2

Yes

mommabeatyou

Yes

5incoPeso

3y↑1

Yes

IMP Alien Ape products

Yes yes yes yes

Sniper Tf2

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The Moonswind Witch

3y↑3.9K

This may sound strange, but a way I’ve learned to often help deal with “ear worms” is to imagine the end of the song playing, and then immediately try to think of something else afterward. It doesn’t work 100% of the time, but it has helped me on many occasions!

JV Pro

3y↑345

Nyan cat has no end. Please help

Platina Hunting

3y↑82

Or just listen to the song ones. Chewing gum should help as well.

sorrychangedmyusername

3y↑24

If you love it so much then marry ti.

The Moonswind Witch

3y↑21

@sorrychangedmyusername ?

That dude in the car

3y↑33

@sorrychangedmyusername ?

Also marry ti? Who's ti?

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Kandrea's World

2y↑854

My personal favorite is when I get two completely different songs stuck in my head at the same time. They play simultaneously. I can alternate lines from each song as I sing along. It's kind of fun.

Listrynne (list-rin)

2y↑21

I've had 3 at the same time. Sometimes they play at the same time, sometimes they alternate lines. I find it aggravating.

Sheng Wu

2y↑3

waht hoW

A7xValentiinee

2y↑4

I sometimes hear undertale song mixed with super mario song in my head

Furby Flash

2y↑3

yep that's viva happy and white happy for me
both get stuck in my head
i alternate between lines when singing it

Desiree Eagle

2y↑3

It's even funner when the song has the same bpm and you can make a sick mashup

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Sweet Potato

3y↑278

I never thought having a ear worm could be a bad thing... sometimes I get a catchy song in my head, and I will sing it in my mind a couple of times while working or doing something, but I never thought it could be a very bad negative thing... but I guess anything can be bad if it becomes too overbearing for a person

Bettina Lose

2y↑13

Yes, it does!
I wake up in the night and "hear" again that piece of music which stuck with me, before I went to bed😖

Bettina Lose

2y↑3

@MadiP Nice, that it works like this for you👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I tried it and it was like "sugar for the ape"😱means, became worser.
Hope, to find a way to stop the mad DJ in my head😉

Flora Nightingale

Honestly, I've never really understood the whole 'Ear Worm' concept, mostly because I don't really hear them. The closest thing I can think of is when I start singing randomly, but I don't really hear music in my head. Then again, maybe I'm confused.

Bettina Lose

2y↑3

Flora Nightingale

2y↑2

@Bettina Lose, Awe geeze, I hope things get better for you! Also, I sorta know the feeling of wanting to escape a sound that is going on inside your head, as I have tinnitus or ear ringing. It sounds a bit like those bird and bat deterrent things that some stores use but somehow even higher pitched.
Thankfully, I've found ways of managing it, but for the first little there while I felt like I was gonna snap. I usually end up playing music over the sound of the high pitched screeching in my ears. Unfortunately, sometimes the ringing is so loud it drowns out most everything else out to the point I can't really hear anything.

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Sinister Sensation

1y↑30

This happened to me, and eventually turned into voices as well. I am surprised I was not hospitalized in that time. It happened for around 1 year. I could only sleep with a radio, and only hearing other noises and music would make it go away while hearing those things. Any classical piece or any type of music could become an ear worm. I still can not listen to some songs without fearing that they will trigger an episode again. And then, whenever I heard another song, that would become trapped in my head and constantly repeating. My brain somehow forgot the songs on the radio, as I was falling asleep.

I did not know at first if I was actually hearing things or not. I have had it happen in the last 5 years as well. It happened around a year and a half ago for 2 months. Before that, it only happened for around 1 week.

Darya Pumpkin

1y↑4

I really feel you here. I have the same thing, it's really annoying. Sometimes I have issues with my sleep because of that :(

Sinister Sensation

1y↑1

@Darya Pumpkin I am curious, but, how do you handle it? I am now on medication that helps with that stuff.

Darya Pumpkin

1y↑2

@Sinister Sensation I can't handle it still 😅 My psychiatrist gave me some pills, but it doesn't work

Mr pancake

1y↑2

oh my god thats crazy sorry dude :(😕😓😫

Sinister Sensation

1y↑1

@Mr pancake Tell me about it; I thought I was losing my mind completely.

AceyFace

3y↑374

A friend of mine said that while he’s at work sometimes he’ll play a little game. He’ll randomly sing or hum a line from a popular song but not complete the whole phrase or part of the song so that it doesn’t resolve. He’ll just stop sort of abruptly. Then usually, people who heard it will subconsciously feel the need to resolve it, so they get that song stuck in their head too. He says usually he’ll hear people humming or singing that same song at some point later in the day.

EDIT: An example, from this video, California Girls. He’ll just go: “California girls we’re unforgettable.. 🎶 “ ..and that’s it.

Antonio

3y↑51

That's evil but I like it

David A

3y↑27

We had a relative staying with us for a while; she's a professional orchestral musician. She had a practice session every day. This often consisted of practicing phrases with difficult fingerings. She'd often just stop half way through a bar, not completing it. It was the most maddening thing imaginable.

Tia Joseph

3y↑19

"...DAISY DUKES BIKINIS ON TOP!" Look at what you've done to me! Now that song will never go away!

yourbirdcreative

3y↑6

Derren Brown did something similar to this. It was set up as a mind reading truck, but he'd actually been setting the guy up all day by sneaking that song into his environment all day.

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Felicia Rojas

2y↑22

Lately my husband and I have been passing “Mixed Nuts” from Spy x Family back and forth between us.

I think what usually helps me with my ear worms is learning the song in-depth and practicing/rehearsing it till it’s performance ready 😅

h-Films

3y↑1K

it's worse when you have a song stuck in your head but you can't even remember how it goes so it's just randomness and a few notes repeating constantly

i ate chocolate and became a chocolate muffin!

3y↑8

Yea

Daniel

3y↑6

y e h

Miss Queen

3y↑61

And it gets even worse when you don't remember the song's name and you just can't look for it.
That happened to me with "toxic" for an entire week. It was so satisfying when I finally remembered the basic word of all the song.

i ate chocolate and became a chocolate muffin!

3y↑7

@Miss Queen yess

Please dont respond if my reply is like 2 year ago

3y↑5

Try to say that to “Its just a burning memory”.

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Brandi Doles

2y↑100

I had this happen to me, whole songs would play in my head. Every day, even in my dreams. I swore there was a radio playing because some of the songs I didn’t know all the words to would play perfectly. It was so exhausting to constantly hear this songs. Finally figured out it was because of my mania and I’m now on meds for it.

Kilvieo

2y↑46

I once had the song Locked Away stuck in my head every hour or so, everyday for 7-10 months. The weirdest thing was that it was never my favorite song. You'd think I would've been suffering all that time, but truth be told; It never stopped me liking the song, think differently about it or get tired. It was just constantly inconvenient because I had to focus on very boring class work.

sanstrap

Same, A year ago during an exam the song "Finale" from undertale played on loop and i still liked the song. Not as intense as your case, it was like for 5 months since it also happened to me while i was in a quiz.

Kim M

2y↑4

Am I the only one that always has music playing in their head all day, every day? Because mine practically never stops! There's always some sort of song playing, unless I'm actually listening to music, which is the only time it goes away. I've had full songs, parts of songs, instrumentals, and even songs I hadn't heard in years randomly pop into my head at all hours of the day. It's so constant to me that it just blends into the background, like my own little soundtrack. Is anyone else like this or is it just me?

Cider X Era

That's really common in people with Adhd :) I got diagnosed with inattentive ADHD. If it gives you issues, go on reddit and look it up, we share a lot of advice on there :)

Velociraptor • 70M years ago

3y↑321

I never thought I would ever be more terrified of realistic art of poeple with no noses.
Nor Brew's skull.
I'll never unsee any of that.

Lieutenant BaconWaffles

2y↑6

& you'll also see them several times more in the future.

Everlucky Clover

2y↑5

yeah those uncanny realistic faces will get you every time....... but brew makes some decent videos so you get used to it.

Happy The Clown

2y↑8

wait till you hear about voldemort

Luke Rankin

2y↑1

You know who else doesn't have a nose? Cthulu. Or that guy from Pirates of The Caribbean.

Mel B

It’s animated

Lucy K.

2y↑6

I just sing along (in my mind, not out loud if I'm in a public place or working, out loud at home), and mentally imagine myself singing and dancing to it like there's no tomorrow, then I go and listen to it on repeat until I get tired of it. If you can't win them, join them.

SECONDARY

3y↑4.5K

It’s all fun and games till you have the entire track of “everywhere at the end of time” stuck in your head

Just Makury

3y↑203

A person of culture... Did u actually listen to the whole thing

Lazy_Laisy

3y↑108

I'd be drying 24/7

Orange Cat

3y↑171

that's a terrifying thought

TheMoonOwner

3y↑59

Ah yes, a man of culture.

Anμs Throbber

3y↑54

Thats just tinnitus

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Ankylosarus Wrecks

3y↑56

This is a great video about earworms, but...
By the description of the symptoms, her several diagnoses and successful treatment, this woman was most likely having musical auditory hallucinations. Most people associate auditory hallucinations with voices, but in can be music too. I have this. It's as if someone made a playlist of music that you have varying degrees of familiarity with and you can hear them playing it, but you can't find the source. Obviously this is your brain doing this, but it's still interpreting as if you are hearing it from an outside source, not as if it's running through your head like an earworm. It happens to me when I'm stressed out (I have bipolar and general anxiety disorder) and I've lost many nights of sleep because of it. It took me a long time to realize this was because of my disorders and needed to be treated. Hopefully it can help someone else.

Stephanie Rose

How did you get rid of it

Ankylosarus Wrecks

2y↑4

The medication I take now is working really well for me and I have a lot less stress in my life. I've made a lot of life changes to take better care of myself. It still happens occasionally, but not enough to really bother me anymore.

Christian Price

2y↑4

i thought this too! but in the video it seems that she noted that the music was coming from her head. i think they would also have an easier time diagnosing and treating her if it was audio hallucinations, and we wouldnt have this cool video :D

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@Christian Price I have had both external and internal auditory hallucinations. it's definitely possible. but I think you are right about what she was experiencing.

Brenna P

No, if it were auditory hallucinations she wouldn't have been able to distinguish they were coming from her brain. It would sound like it was playing in the room or whatever. OCD causes thoughts to become "stuck", like along, and the more she worried/thought about it the more it would stick. I have OCD and it's happened to me before. You have to break the spiral and think about something else completely which is insanely difficult.

Preston Estes

3y↑829

“This is Halloween, This is Halloween
Halloween, Halloween
Halloween, Halloween

In this town we call home
Everybody hail to the pumpkin song
In this town, don’t we love it now?
Everybody’s waiting for the next surprise!”

MysteryXPlayer

3y↑21

Nastolgic

Jason Haney

3y↑16

That's one of my favorite Halloween/Christmas movie

《segaa~☆》

3y↑6

@MysteryXPlayer nostalgic*

Katie Draws

3y↑1

@《segaa~☆》 literally stopped correcting her/him

XxBunxX

3y↑1

I love this movie

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Schuyler

3y↑15

Most earworms for me are songs I just recently discovered, or rediscovered after a long time of not hearing it, and fell obsessively in love with right away. I find what works best to unstick one is to listen to the song on repeat until it eventually becomes too familiar and recitable, losing that exciting novelty that made my brain latch onto it. It usually takes a couple days of that and then the earworm goes away.

Debbie Chan

3y↑31

I usually get earworms of songs I was listening to on loop not long before, and it usually happens right when I'm trying to sleep. I just "imagine" the end of the song and try to "imagine" other things, like another song, to try to counter it. Weirdly enough, forcefully "imagining" music box version of lullabies works pretty well, as well as paying attention to my own breathing, and imagining that I'm deep underwater.

Audrey Yale

2y↑7

I once had "I want it that way" by the Backstreet boys stuck in my head for a month on end. I thought I was going insane. It didn't leave until my sister played the whole song instead of just the one part.

Someone Idk

2y↑1

I did too! But instead of the original it was a cover of in the opening scene of an episode of Brooklyn 99. Listening to the original didn't do anything. I believe it was a different cover by the present day backstreet boys that did it in.

The Book's Journey

3y↑3.5K

So.... songs constantly in your head every waking moment ISN'T normal?

Pencil Food

3y↑200

I can't believe such things

Freddie

3y↑24

hahaha

Nick Harrison

3y↑17

Yes

Cavey Möth

3y↑132

That's preposterous. I always have music playing in my head. But it's probably because I am an INTP.

Sphinx

3y↑25

No it’s normal

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Not An Alien

3y↑27

I've got almost all of Tom Cardy's "Artificial Intelligence" album playing in my head in a random loop when I'm working (which mind you is usually 10 hours), the most common so far is the final chorus and the bridge just before that from Read Between The Lines.

Don't get me wrong though, I absolutely love those songs! I just get easily sidetracked when it starts playing in my head--

Pibb D. Fanta

3y↑1

I have felt antici—

Not An Alien

3y↑2

@Pibb D. Fanta --pation, and I will again...

(ohmygodthankyou)

youtube account

2y↑1

His song "Red Flags" is a BOP but... dear god, it is an unfortunate one to get stuck in your head...

CrabCartel

2y↑1

I WAS JUST THINKING THAT THE DESCRIPTION OF WHAT BECOMES AN EARWORM IS TOM CARDY

Nova Nation

3y↑14

I'm a musical fanatic so I always have songs in my head. It disrupts my sleep so much and even carries into conversations with people. I find humming the songs to be tremendously satisfying and I play "air piano" to the music. This has been an issue for me for like 7 or so years now. I don't mind it but it does get annoying.

Arcanist Gaming & Music

2y↑17

I have a weird quirk: I wake up almost every morning with a different song stuck in my head and it goes away once I listen to music to do my steps. This is normally something I actually listen to (it's on my iPod), but not always. While I do have vivid dreams, the songs are not heard in them and are selected either at random or by some subconscious algorithm I don't yet understand upon waking.... Operative word being "yet" lol. I'm actively trying to figure out the logic.

Arcanist Gaming & Music

MrHolyKindness Yeah, I don't get that very often. If my dreams don't include the song (which they don't), I'll wake up with a different one in there or none at all. My subconscious has numerous weird rule I'll spend the rest of my life identifying and analyzing lol

lolname lollastname

2y↑3

I've had "original" songs play I my heart my dreams, sometimes based on existing songs or pieces of music.

"Stop cracking paint with your paint-stained hands" - Martina Topley-Bird still haunts me a little about a decade on from when it first happened

JiuJitsu Guy

2y↑5

I can relate to this.... It makes it almost impossible for me to read. And I wake up with songs that I havent heard in years playing over and over in my head.

TJ Rainbowleaf

Adil Bennani i wanna know too

TJ Rainbowleaf

Adil Bennani omg i have those (i think minus the bipolar tho) i think it's funny my ocd and adhd seem to be the case for all dem symptoms omg lol

Tinygoat Animates Stuff

3y↑261

As someone with OCD, ear worms can be BRUTAL. Sometimes it’ll take hours to fall asleep cause five different songs are looping in my head. Sometimes screaming a song in my head that never becomes a ear worm is the only way to drown them out. Fortunately most of the times it’s songs that I like, but even those are anxiety inducing.

Emma Franks

2y↑7

I myself find that saying `no' over and over again out loud works the best. My OCD isn't nearly as bad as it used to be, but only because of years of therapy and actively working on it. That was my go-to option for when something got stuck in my head when I was younger though. It worked for words, phrases, images, and clips, too

super_nova_4412

2y↑8

Do you ever get random phrases stuck in your head? It happens so often for me, especially at work. Alliteration is mainly what causes it but I also get the same two Beethoven symphonies stuck in my head all the time. And atleast one a day the song snippet “I saw the signs that opened up my eyes I saw the sign” will repeat.

Tinygoat Animates Stuff

2y↑1

@super_nova_4412 hmmm I don't know about random phrases. If it has some sort of rhythm to it, it might even if it's not part of a song, but not often for me.

Nekokami

I can't tell if I have ear worms or not, but the song that I really like often played in my head, but I don't have a problem about it at all

clvde

2y↑3

i felt the "five songs" thing, as literally all of my thoughs are going bonkers at every hour, minute and second of the day, including how only one is the main thought at the time, and the others are STILL going mad while i try to focus on one.

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Toaster

2y↑5

Sometimes I’ll have a song stuck in my head, then I’ll think of another one and my mind will immediately merge the two songs together or their lyrics together. So whenever I think of either of the songs I’ll think of the other and think of the mixed version and I can never get rid of it-. It’s kind of annoying but fun.

Luminous

2y↑4

I had the first 10 seconds of twilight zone by 2 Unlimited stuck on and off in my head for 7 years.
The really funny thing was that I didn't even know what it was called.
It was only after finding out the name of the song and blasting it over 100 times that I managed to free myself from that waking nightmare...

John Michael Richards

2y↑1

In three separate episodes, each lasting several days, I kept 'hearing' the ohrwurm of Genesis' The Return of the Giant Hogweed. It generally started when I awoke. Thankfully, as much as I like the song, it was not constant as with the 32-year old woman but was repeated at intervals throughout the day. It happened when a musician friend was very ill.

TheOmniHero

3y↑1

I usually get rid of an ear worm by mentally composing my own song out of the various sounds of many other songs I know of. It usually doesn't pan out well as a good song, but it gets rid of the ear worm. My favorite composition I made so far is called Calamitus Omega.

Starfire I

For me, songs don’t really get stuck in my head. I like listening to them, and they only start playing when I’m not doing something else, like when I’m close to going to sleep. In fact there’s one song that I have fully memorized and it’s the best song for giving me energy when I need it (and I have needed the energy before), because I can draw energy from songs. I chose this.

renren

3y↑1.3K

"If you have a song stuck in your head, you might have a earworm."

My brain:
What you know about rollin down in the deep

RiverRebel

3y↑35

Right? Lol. I especially love a remix version of it by the Cheer Brothers called Banjo in the Ocean

FabianButHere

3y↑53

Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down!

Java the Protogen

3y↑27

@FabianButHere drown*

Jared Donaldson

3y↑22

where your brain goes numb you call a mental freeza

DIGITAL SHADOWFOX

3y↑7

what do you know about mining diamond ores with a sTeVe

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Hoot Mess

Once had a week of insomnia where the opening riff to Diary of a Madman kept playing in my head on repeat. I still can't hear that song start up without a little spike of panic, but thankfully it has not returned to haunt me.

Bofur the Dwarf

2y↑3

The song that normally gets stuck in my head is “The Wind was on the Withered Heath” written by Tolkien but whenever it’s sang by anyone it always gets stuck in my head.

Horror-Core

The song and video Defeating Gravity, by Future Palace is constantly stuck in my head. I listen to the song probably once every other day but even when I'm listening to other bands that song stays in my head. I've noticed songs that are most relatable to my life stay in my head and won't go away for a good while.

Alphabet Iris

When I went to a music camp, we had something called an audition workshop. You could pick what song you would practice and I chose Rises The Moon. Its been stuck in my head since and it's been two months

RetroBug42

This is literally me. One song jumps to another. I also have random phrases and numbers repeated but it doesn't last too long, just a day or two

joemck85

3y↑1.3K

"Musical itch" sounds very accurate. It's like my brain is stuck in one little piece of the song and, for me, listening to the whole song is usually the most effective way to "scratch the itch" and get my brain through the rest of the song.
Conversely, if I listen to a catchy song and stop it partway into the chorus (or otherwise the catchy part), that's the most effective way to get it stuck.

Lurantix

3y↑9

What if you don't remember the other parts then you have to listen to it again then

Ani CAT

3y↑2

Like "baby shark" :')

Rain The Draconic

3y↑5

My brain finds common leitmotifs and makes little mashups. Its hard to remember the originals to make the mashups online

MelanieScribbles

3y↑2

Same for me! If a sing is stuck in my head, then I tend to listen it in full once, and then it gets un-stuck.

Scipio

2y↑3

@drew The literal translation of ohrwurm is ear worm as in an animal that lives in your ear not “ear itch”

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Greirat Enthusiast

Had my first earworm last week, I was stressed about something then I started hearing we'll meet again coming from what sounded like another room in my house which was kind of terrifying even though I knew it was in my head.

Diego Sheish

2y↑1

My brain’s constantly making up music, funnily enough, the farther away from psychosis, the better quality, volume and length of the song is. So, if I haven’t slept in 3 days, it’s usually just the voices in my head, but if I’m well-rested and well-fed, it can be a whole album. Too bad I can’t write it down.

Danz McNabb

2y↑7

I have BPD and ADHD, and some days I'll get an earworm playing LOUDLY on repeat for up to weeks at a time. If it's not music it's a monstop stream of internal monologue and dialogue.

Thankfully nowhere near as extreme as this case, though

TBella

2y↑4

This has been my whole life, I wake with a random song and go to sleep with a random song.

I had Hamilton on loop for well over a year.

Tolde

I love how everything is draw except for evidence points which cant be draw because they need to show the actual thing. Which i s really cool because they put so much dedication into their videos

Daemon Rayge

3y↑954

"Cant get you out of my head" as an earworm. How fitting.

Jessica Evans

3y↑4

Or try "All in my head" by Enkay47. Sarah Cleary (don't know if I spelled her name right) will get stuck in there.

Rain The Draconic

3y↑9

And I CANT GET U OUT, of my, MI mi.---

Azay Tay

3y↑2

I like your pfp

Ash -ton

2y↑1

I will usually listen to the song I had in my head but there was one time I had one in my head that lasted about two months because I couldn’t listen to it, it was my friends original song but they had sung it to me once before they passed away and never actually recorded it, it was painful to have it in my head because the loss was fresh and I was only 15 so it was hard to deal with but luckily it stopped after a while

Pickle.

I had this happen before, it was a song from a Nintendo DS game I played in elementary school. I was in 1st grade and the song was stuck in my head for over a month, and I have had generalized anxiety my whole life and it make it so much worse after a while because the song ramped it up lol. Finally after so long it just went away

Jasmine G

3y↑2

I knew it was ocd right away. I have ocd and this was one bothersome obsession. ERP really had changed me life and given me control

April Michelle

This is what it's like working in retail where you hear the same songs every single day of the year, because the playlist never changes.

Devyn Mintaka

2y↑6

I always have music in my head. Literally always.

King WFA

3y↑160

Hi, I lost hearing in both my ears on a plane (not during ascend or descend). Specialists have no idea why it happened and they apparently got to write a study on it because it was so unique. I’m in my early 20’s and the only possibility they could see was my blood genotype deformity. After a month my left ear came back 50% but my right ear never did. Can you do a video on this?

nerdy me

3y↑20

Oh my! I always see people saying they lost their hearing on planes but they only last a few minutes after the plane

King WFA

3y↑5

@nerdy me yeah a coworker told me about that after it happened, I hadn’t heard about it at all before then

EpicGaming7

3y↑10

Do you know if the study is online? I’d like to read it

King WFA

3y↑3

@EpicGaming7 I’ll ask my ENT and get back to you

King WFA

3y↑23

@EpicGaming7 doc said the article isn’t published yet, they’re still working on it but he’ll provide me with a copy when it is

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life goes on :,-)

Sometimes I have music playing in my head so hard that I can't even read my books it's too troubling I am surprised that I am not the only one suffering from this weird problem

Falor

2y↑1

Listening to the song stuck in my brain, sometimes twice, is almost an instant cure everytime.

Jessie Uffman

one time I literal got an ENTIRE SONG stuck in my head i could sing every word, every pitch, literally EVERYTHING for an ENTIRE MONTH (it was "don't lose your head")

Lenneko98

2y↑1

I had an earworm for over a week once in my life. It was so bad and intrusive it kept me from sleeping at night and my mom had to call out for me for 3 days within that span, we were learning "man in the mirror" for choir, and this was I think the year that MJ passed away. I would cry over it cause it was loud and got painful. Literally the only song I'm ever glad I got to stop singing.

Thomas

I know this is out of the blue but im experiencing what you went through and I'm on my 2nd night rn. Never experienced this before. The song just wont stop and its driving me nuts

eggfrywuh😮‍💨

The constant screams of the guilt, and people I’ve ended clawing at my brain is my song!! 😂😂😂

krider

3y↑245

She waited 12 years to go to a doctor?! That sounds about the amount of time I wait too.

MadiTheTROLLS

3y↑6

MURICA!

Mia Mizuno

3y↑5

If pandemic does not stop soon, this will be normal waiting time in Germany.
Currently, if you need psychological help, you need to wait at least 9 months.

Trynia Merin

3y↑4

Probably was concerned she would be considered nuts.

SpectralI

I’ve had ‘ear worms’ many times, and only 1 extremely severe time where it was happening for a week, and I legit was feeling very angered from it

דביר קרונפלד

When the music that i usually hear get stuck in my head, I ABSOLUTELY love it. Idk why some people don't...

MisunderstoodFern

For me as a guitar player, i notice that instead of getting a song stuck in my head that was catchy, and someone would normally get as an earworm, i get riffs in my head, be it either ones i came up with, or one i heard or was playing. Very Interesting.

James Stoddah

3y↑2

I always have a constant earworm and I have woken up with new songs in my head too (which, yes I have recorded). As a kid, I'd DJ them, even make up weekly charts for them. They can be loud though at times, I usually don't mind - but I do think it doesn't help with anxiety or focus.

Grey Warden Invasion

I haven't had an earworm stuck in head anymore in quite a long time. But instead I started the habit to listen to each new song I like at least 30 times in a row - so basically for for two hours straight.

MiuMiu NOT official - BabyBus Parody

3y↑324

the constant screams of agony is always playing in my head 💯

pissdrinker42

3y↑10

ah yes let the childeren listen to them too

keagan Insley

3y↑6

Especially the children screams. The kid one's are the best

heymoon708

3y↑2

oh I love that band!

Rhys Evans

3y↑1

Literally any slam metal band

That Guy in the Kilt Detailing

3y↑2

I do that to relax

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The Cozy Introvert

Not only do I get songs in my head, but also lines from movies too. It becomes like a weird compulsion for me to say it out loud too. I drive my husband nuts when I walk around the house saying “ye fond of me lobster, ain’t ye?” 67 times before 10am.

Tediz Ursa

As I've seen near the end of the video: Sometimes, successfully shaking off an ear worm often involves singing it around someone else and waiting on them to catch it. Intentionally or otherwise. X'D

Taprunner

When I had to sing a song for my cover band for the first time (usually I just play bass) I had the song stuck in my head for months, until we actually performed it. Then it was gone. It was The Riddle by Nik Kershaw.

Moonlit Kitsune

I had a song stuck in my head for 2-3 weeks straight. I still went to work and did my job. Didn't affect my relationships with people. I find that I just move in time to the songs I'm addicted to.

Giftbringer Fenrir

2y↑2

fun fact : this guy and final destination are the only two things that managed to eternally scar me and make me scared of almost everything

TJ Rainbowleaf

no shame in not watching something if it hurts you.

Dia

3y↑364

my brain sometimes just decides
"I'm gonna rick roll you all day now"

Ally Cake

3y↑18

dang it you just made me think of the song and basically rick rolled me

Rockstar Bonett

3y↑8

The drum from the start now plays in my head.

Listrynne (list-rin)

2y↑3

Funny that he mentions chewing gets songs out. For me I'll get Rickrolled by the rhythm of my chewing.

Ginny Jolly

2y↑1

WE ALL LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE
YELLOW SUBMARINE
YELLOW SUBMARINE

Ichito Burrito

"Never gonna give you up.........."

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cryptid bunny

My mom suffered head trauma in a car wreck and suffered a few neurological effects, including some memory loss and inability to recall words in conversation. She's mostly recovered now, but one of the long-lasting effects was getting lyrical songs stuck in her head REALLY easily and struggling to get rid of them. She basically just can't listen to any music with lyrics in English anymore. Instrumentals and non-English lyrics don't bother her, at least.

katie dangelo

3y↑1

this is the song that never ends. it goes on and on my friend.....

on day, they started singing not knowing was it was.
and they'll continue singing forever just because......

Lizzie Ritter

1y↑1

This actually happened to me before I was diagnosed with a mental illness. The music wouldn’t stop and I had to go on medication.

Jon g

Hi lizzie i also suffer with this what medication helps please?

zorzevic

2y↑1

I love your content brew.
Too bad you didn't pick the right parts of the brain when it comes to working memory tho ;)
(Left ventrolateral prefrontal, bilateral intraparietal sulcus, hippocampus, and dorsolateral prefrontal, respectively)

Oldman Jenkins

I put on classical music when I get a song stuck in my head. The more classical music you play, the more you will recognize the composer. Not all are the same. Some sound happy, some sound like a stormy night. Some sound like being in a meadow with pretty flowers.

CrezzyCreeper

3y↑519

Imagine an earworm Rick Rolling you for a whole month.

Phantom Gato

3y↑19

Pain

Rusty

3y↑49

That worm aint never gonna give it up never gonna let it down

Some Random Touhou Enjoyer

3y↑23

@Rusty Never gonna turn around and desert the joy of rickrolling you

Nova

3y↑22

@Some Random Touhou Enjoyer tho it will make you cry, but never say goodbye

Danny Phantom

3y↑3

NeVeR gOnNa GiVe YoU uP

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Cierra Swanson

3y↑6

Songs that get stuck in my head? Just about anything that AJR has made. They're great.

PartyCRASHER

They're really REALLY great!

jake lee

something I have learned is if I have a song stuck in my head, I just have to tell my mind to stop. Another way to stop a song from repeatedly getting stuck in my head is to learn how to sing the whole song from memory with the correct tone, rhythm, speed, and any eccentricities that the singer uses like accent or short cuts, if I do that I will one have another song added to my repertoire, and my brain will be satisfied that I don't need to tie up short term mental resources to remember how the song goes.

choonitz

Am I the only one that enjoys earworms? Listening to the part over and over again feels like scratching an itch, and I could spend all day doing it

Voice O'reason

I get seemingly random earworms on a daily basis, usually they're not too bad and can become conversation topics more than anything. It I have time to stop and think about it, I can usually come up with why my brain chose that one. Often it's because someone spoke in the rythem of the song, or said a key word from the lyrics. (Or an unusual word that I haven't encountered many places other than that song.) Longest earworm infestation I had was in junior high. It was fairly mild severity, and I could forcefully shake it for an hour or so before it popped back in, but it endured for two whole weeks. I'm convinced my subconscious picked it for its lyrics "the phantom of the opera is there inside your mind". Most annoying earworm I've had was within the last year. It was fairly short lived, but powerful. I had a sleepless night because of it. New Christy Minstrels "Green, Green".

Rebecca Lilly

I may be a little late to the party here, but I feel completely odd confessing that my most common earworm is the staccatos in the Queen of the Night aria from Mozart's Magic Flute. I even find myself singing the segment sotto voce while working on my computer...like right now.

EEEGZ

3y↑244

the fact that “cant get you out of my head” is a common ear worm is ironic

Someone404

3y↑9

Not ironic, it’s expected

Dash Perú

3y↑3

I think it's still ironic even if it's in purpose

Frank Marano

3y↑4

The worst one I've ever remembered is the commercial jingle "gotta go, gotta go, gotta go right now!" For something to help people with small bladders or something. Used to despise that commercial & I can still remember the song all these years later

P. S.

3y↑1

Wouldn't it actually be ironic if the song were something like "I never can remember..."?

AnimeLover7

3y↑1

That's just like the Catchy song from the Lego movie 2. It literally says it's gonna get stuck inside your head lol.

Shae

2y↑6

My favourite song that gets stuck in my head occasionally is “Walk Without The Stars” and “Could Be Frosted Stars” by Bliximi

JUMNHMSTOR

I have OCD and I haven't watched a Disney movie since I was in the 6th grade because the songs would get stuck in my head for months and literally made me have a mental breakdown at one point because I couldn't get it out of my head. I also just tend to avoid kids media and musicals in general now.

[]•Sarah•[]

Oh my god. I’ve been there. It was crippling for a year. Now I’m on meds. Thank goodness. I feel for anyone that’s experienced this.

Cody Manning

I’m going through this. It’s so annoying, what meds have helped?

dj neon reaper(REBL)

Ive always wanted to make a catchy song that gets stuck in peoples head but after watching this... It made me want to make a catchy song even more 🙏

Bryn

Fun fact: when our brains have ear worms You usually just remembered about some song and it’s kinda like a itch to make you listen to it again, but all you do is trying to get rid of it but if you really just did it and listened or itched then- it’s gone •^•

Willie Hallett

3y↑102

When I have songs stuck in my head, I find that it sometimes helps to listen to covers or even remixes of the song. Hearing a different take on the song, especially the earworm part, kinda breaks it up.

hoj doj

2y↑2

i have a similar case with megalovania and yeah i can a test to say that i works

Lurantix

3y↑7

She should've tried going to a concert or getting webcore songs stuck in her head. You definitely can't remember those perfectly. No words, just complete brain melting music that still sounds good

Keyboard Warrior

2y↑1

I am haunted by Boogie Wonderland. It gets stuck in my head for a couple hours every day. I don't mind cause its like my OCD wracked brain providing an escape door. I'll be in the middle of a bad episode on the verge of breakdown- when my brain screams DANCE. It's like a switch flips and the obsessive thoughts are replaced with the uncontrollable urge to sing and boogie down.

super_nova_4412

I have always had issues with repeating random phrases in my head over and over. At work, it’s anything with alliteration (Soda Snake, Pretty Pump Powerhouse Product, Goo Gone, etc) and I still haven’t figured out why. It’s almost like I’m not even thinking about them, they’re just there repeating their selves. No music in the world can make it stop and honestly I’m not sure what to do or what to call it because it’s not even music.

Edit:The bit about classical music not getting stuck in peoples head also doesn’t apply to me. Ode to joy and Fur Elise get stuck constantly as well

MagmaWarrior03

I'm a major Alternative person, I value lots of variation in patterns, and I often listen to very heavy music with somewhat dark subject matter, so I don't get a lot of earworms. The only exception was this one, I guess you could call it a song, that my dad heard on the radio and told me about. After singing the lyrics to me for thirty seconds, it was like a parasite in my musical taste that lasted for several months and impared me from listening to music that I like, it went like, "I'm at the Pizza Hut, I'm at the Taco Bell, I'm at the Combination Pizza Hut & Taco Bell," over and over again, it was infuriating and I hated it! I don't even know what the tune was and I don't need to, it doesn't need it.

Ty

This happened to me for a couple days multiple times. Couldnt fall asleep for a couple of days once. One of the worst experiences

OKAY

3y↑38

Being a parent and having easy to remember children's music in the background constantly...I'm fine...totally fine...I swear I'm fine...

Laura Ferguson

2y↑2

I'm fine, I'm totally fine... I will stand on the side while you shine.... 🎶

Princess Pikachu

2y↑1

@Laura Ferguson I’m not fine... I’m not fine... Under the surface! We don’t talk about Bruno, no no no... It’s the soundtrack from Encanto! 🎵

Voice O'reason

2y↑1

@Princess Pikachu I find We Don't Talk About Bruno to be less obnoxious than some because it has so many distinct parts. It takes longer to get stale and you can just flow into a different part.

Emerald Eyes Esoteric

The wheels on the bus go...

Krazy Rae

Music is almost always in my head, like it's a constant continuous loop of music that stops every once in a while. But i can control it sometimes

QiWunu

For me, its impossible to not have a song stuck in my head.

Dreamscape195

The most notorious earworm for me is "Little" Fugue in G Minor by Bach - and I know how pretentious that sounds if you're not familiar with it, because it's classical and it's Bach, but trust me on this and go listen to it. It's so catchy x _ x

When I was young, my sibling and I would get the adam's family tune stuck in our heads a lot too. Somehow it was tied to building with legos xD It was specifically while we were building that one of us would always end up humming it and the other would get mad.

DamonNomad82

For me, the ultimate earworm is a song from the movie "Return of the King". Not the epic finale to the Peter Jackson trilogy of movies, but the 1980 cartoon adaptation. Anyone who's ever seen it will probably try to hurt me badly after they scroll down, see the name of the song, and immediately get it stuck in their heads:

"Where There's a Whip, There's a Way!"

Kittee

2y↑1

When I was a kid, my mom had a ringtone on her phone called the "Whistling Wizard" (you may know the one). I would randomly hear it throughout the day, even when she and her phone weren't around.

UnicornDonut466

3y↑392

I’m surprised this hasn’t gotten copyright claimed yet.

THE superdak

3y↑38

Maybe the key to evading copyright claims is to sing the song badly enough.

Stupider and Unnecessarier

3y↑36

@THE superdak the real strategy is singing so bad that the original artist does not want to associate with the excuse of a sound that was made

Wilh3lm (aka IsTakenIsTaken)

3y↑2

DON’T GIVE THEM IDEAS!!!!!!

rautamiekka

3y↑2

@THE superdak In USA there's already been a lawsuit (specifically the Xmas songs someone made and a buncha ppl singed), which was ruled as baseless: singing a song, no matter how well, more often than not doesn't have a copyright protection. I think there are some instances where there is, but that's all I know.

An automated check has made that error before, but it's just as equally baseless.

Team Plasma Colress [TPC]

@Stupider and Unnecessarier yes

Gavin Ens

some of the songs that have gotten stuck in my head lately are: "Operator", and "Wishbone" by "Brendan Byrnes", and surprisingly a few songs, by artists like "Frums", and "Camellia", such as "Xnor Xnor Xnor" by "Frums"

FFP Far From Purrfect

this situation sounds very familiar. i'm so used to music in my head that when i realize it's somehow not there i start humming a random song. it's hard to focus with this earworm stuff but after those years silence seems just weird and unnatural so focusing in silence is hard now too. though since i'm taking antidepressants my ability to focus has increased. it's not as good as 8 years ago but i can read books again. not a whole book in a few hours like i used to back then but one in two weeks is good enough.

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