A Cure for EarWorms

if i get an unwanted one, i listen to this -- an old earworm from my yoot, which will take up residence for the next several hours...

Not sure about what is the cure but try never getting stuck in a ride at Disney World while It's a Small World After All is playing over and over. It's the Earworm to end all Earworms. It took several electroshock treatments to bring me back ...and frankly, not many would say I ever got cured. I was seen strangling Mickey much to the horror of the rugrats that surrounded me pelting me with Skittles.

If you get one, then replace it with another. Everentually you'll happen across a tune that doesn't interest you enough to become embedded in the windmills of your mind....windmills of your mind...wind..mills..of...your...mind. (be surprised how many versions of that there are).

That's the cure I was going to suggest, Sturgis.
But, you know ... it doesn't really resolve the ear worm problem, does it?

Here's a suggestion. Put on Judy Garland tunes. It works for me as she is so good, that it's pretty pleasant if it becomes an earworm.

Replacing one with another is not the best solution especially if someone is trying to
1) meditate
or
worse
2) SLEEP.

I would like to hear again the sounds of silence.

Joe(And NO, not that one!!)Nation

Here ya go, Joe!

Enjoy!




Whoops!
Sorry!

....Back to the drawing board!

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRTGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

Oh, you wanted sleep?

Here ya go.

Some classical music (not all, but some) will usually pull me out of it.

In the year of our discontent (I mean the five months or so of our remodeling our house), we had a helper, a barrister from London who was world traveling and working. He was a good worker, as it happened. He liked loud top 40 type rock.

That summer affected-my-affection for a lot of music I'd liked or even loved before... earworm creation. Shut up! Shut up! Get out of my head!

I think what happens to me is that (as everyone else in this version of reality) I am constantly surrounded by music, sounds, ads on TV, programs on TV....and the burbling of NPR radio.
My apartment is very quiet.
(You are all invited to come by and hear.)
My brain's reaction to the quiet is to FILL it in..... and the music starts in my head.

No DEAD air for you, Joe!
(How about you sing the chorus to Hey Ya?
HEEYYYY YAAAA. Hey YA, HEEEEYYYYYY YAAAAA Hey ya! ♪♪♪♫
)
This is not a constant problem or I would think it might be serious.

Yes, osso, classical music helps....I have about four Vivaldi Concertos memorized and can pull them up at will.

Except then they start looping at about twenty bars in.

Joe(♫♪♫dada-da-da dada-DA-da-da♫♪♫♫♪)Nation

Just replace it with another earworm

In my opinion, depressed people do not have ear worms. People who are experiencing some exuberant moment, or are naturally exuberant may have an ear worm, as a side effect of a good mood. Perhaps, one needs to associate with depressed people? If one's ear worm then becomes a funeral dirge, one might be on the road to recovery?

I had temporarily forgotten that song from the bygone era. . I'm trying to remember what comedy bit used that song. Perhaps Ernie Kovacas did in his skits...not sure.

This version, IMHO, is a little snappier one than the one you list:


OMG/..somehow I recalled it correctly. It WAS Ernie Kovacs in
'Kovacs Corner':

Putting on the Ritz has been earworming me since I saw this video yesterday - - but in a good way.
A2ker beware:



Takes a while to develop. . .

That's hilarious - I've never seen Ernie Kovacas!

My best remedy--which may not work for you--has been to get a copy of the song, and listen to it all the way through.

That song ALWAYS reminds me of that scene, Set!