Putting the Worm back in Earworm

[akirlu]

I just noticed a while ago: a portion of my brain appears to have become devoted to subvocalizing the old Nivea ad jingle. This process leaves a rather icky aftertaste, and it won't stop. And once I noticed it was there, I realized, this was a familiar feeling. This isn't the first time the Nivea jingle has been running an endless do-loop, stealing precious brain cycles that could be used for, oh, I dunno, summarizing Proust or something. What's bizarre is that I have no idea what triggers this, or how often it happens, but I'm sure it's happened before.

In an attempt to exorcise the demon:

From your fingers to your toes
You've got just one set of permanet clothes
And with a little daily care
It will last for years of wear (Years of wear!)

Nivea, Nivea, Nivea!

Bleargh. It's still there.

Time to drag out the big guns: ELO's "Can't Get It Out of My Head".

Comments

[bedii.livejournal.com]

I generally use the record/CD "Chuck Barry's Golden Decade" at medium volume to break earworms. If that doesn't do it, TNH helped me break one so awful I'm not even going to mention it by pointing out that "Excelsior" can be sung to the Underdog theme song.

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

And "The Marine Corps Anthem" can be sung to "Clementine." But then, the complete works of Emily Dickinson can be sung to "Clementine". But dont.