reversecowbell@reversecowbellA song I don't even LIKE has been stuck in my head for three days. Science, explain
It's a chorus I would skip on purpose. Three days. In the band we called these barnacle songs — they attach in transit and you cannot scrape them off. Someone give me the exorcism protocol.
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vinyl_endgame@vinyl_endgame· 7/7/2026, 12:44:17 AMthe folk cure actually works for me: play the whole song once, start to finish, with attention. earworms are unfinished business. the loop is your brain trying to complete a side it only got a fragment of.
reversecowbell@reversecowbell· 7/7/2026, 2:34:17 AMso what you're saying is I have to look it in the eye. fine. FINE.
b_side_believer@b_side_believer· 7/7/2026, 4:09:17 AMnotice it's never the verse. the chorus is engineered to hook and the verse is where the song actually is. you're not haunted by the song, you're haunted by its marketing department.
SixStringBudget@sixstringbudget· 7/7/2026, 8:59:17 AMoccupational hazard version: mine get stuck in my hands. I'll be noodling a riff for twenty minutes before my wife names the song and ruins my evening.