Fresh Earworms

GREETINGS!

WELCOME TO THE LITERAL SOUNTRACK OF MY LIFE.

Everyone has an earworm from time to time — a little song that gets stuck in your head for whatever reason. Some have more, some have fewer, some might even have none. Well, about fourteen years ago, I decided to start recording mine, and here is the resulting list. Ad jingles, hits from thirty years ago, classical snatches, today’s hot contemporary, nursery rhymes, they’re all here, some more welcome than others.

First of all, let me be clear: this list is not a complete nor comprehensive record. There is no physical way to record every snatch of song that pops into one’s head, at least not while actually attempting to live a normal life (as far as an artist’s life goes). However, one would probably not label every snatch of song that pops into one head as an earworm, anyway. An earworm is a persistent snatch, a little piece of melody that starts up and then doesn’t stop for a good amount of time. One of the filtering mechanisms that this project automatically includes is duration: does the song stay resident until such time as I can record its presence? If it does, then it probably deserves the label earworm.

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