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23 May 2011
At any given time, I'm sure to have a song running through my head. Does that happen to you?
I had the riff from James Brown's "Superbad" stuck in there this morning - and unfortunately it's a 13-note figure where the first 11 notes are identical. Makes for monotonous whistling.
Yep, always. Usually, any single song is stuck for 2-3 days and then it moves on. What's stuck right now, Stewie? for me it's the theme song from Treme.
Yes, I always have a song in my head. And when I don't, for some disturbing reason, it defaults to "Gonna Take a Lotta Love." Since I was 9 years old or so (whenever that came out) that song has been the default. So I try to avoid NOT having a song in my head.
At any given time, I'm sure to have something running through my head. The key word being running. This morning it was about possibly getting new kitchen cabinets; yesterday it was the song "Gloria" by Laura Branigan.
It's the mental jukebox, as far as I'm concerned. But I get weird things like Melismata does, that just get stuck there and might not be a song. Today I happen to be stuck on ballet, which might be my next phase. Earlier it was a bellydance choreography that I'm working on that the music came on for while I was driving into work today.
Alllllll the tiiiiiiiiime. Currently, it's "Barbra Streisand" and yesterday it was "Why" by Bronski Beat, but once during a test it was "Sex Bomb" by Tom Jones. Don't ask me why. (But I did do quite well!)
Ha, BOP, every time a new Shaun the Sheep appears on Netflix, Mr. G and I end up with that one in our heads for weeks.
Right now it's "It's a jungle out there" from Monk but that'll probably go away sometime this evening, to be replaced by some random lyric from a song older than I am.
Sometimes I wake up in the morning with a song I haven't heard in years running through my head. I dream in Technicolor with soundtracks, and sometimes the soundtracks stick around after I wake up.
Yes. Always yes. It's irritating when I'm feeling lazy or sick, since then I just recycle old things, but under normal circumstances it's sort of useful. I harness it by writing down the lyrics to any song I want to learn and keeping that note in my pocket so I can refer to it every time the music pops into my head (or when an unwanted earworm sneaks in). A couple of listenings per day of the actual piece keeps me on track in terms of the correct notes. Jazz songs take about a day, arias a few depending on the language and difficulty, but man do they stick. Ages ago when I first started acting a bit and had trouble keeping track of lines, I got in the habit of setting them to music during memorization, just because it worked so well.
Oh yeah, this is me too.
I have a variety of songs that are stuck and I also have a couple defaults that rotate around.
Recently the default has been the Israeli national anthem which is a very pretty song but WTF I haven't sung it in 15 years since Hebrew school and I am very much NOT a Zionist.
Another very common one in my head is You Are My Sunshine, and Goodnight Irene. Also Where Did you Sleep Last Night and the Nouvelle Vague cover of In a Manner of Speaking
I guess they are all simple, melody-focused, and fun to sing/in my range.
I usually have at least 2-3 bouncing around at the same time, drifting back and forth like different radio stations at the same frequency
Me too. We share them at work like rhinovirus; our chat system has a dedicated topic discussion (kind of like an IRC channel) specifically for unloading our own and picking up other people's.
Everybody smash up your seats and rock to this brand new beat!
I've always got something going in my head. Sometimes it surprises me. I got Raspberry Beret a while back, and just now it was You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet.
If there's something playing I don't like, I'll start Lanikele.
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