I Can’t Get This Song Out of My Head!
As a compulsive person by nature I get stuck…really stuck on songs. In fact, it is so bad that no one in our house is allowed to sing the same song more than once per day. If I get stuck on a song I am tortured by it for hours…sometimes days….can’t shake it loose. Like a leech…only more unpleasant.
Today Faith and I were in a department store looking for shirts she could wear that didn’t look too tight and suggestive. It’s difficult to find non-suggestive clothes in the junior department and she is so tiny that the regular sized clothes don’t fit her. Anyway….
There I was minding my own business when I heard it over the intercom. The most dreadful, sticky song on the planet. Feliz Navidad.
Seriously?! It’s early November and we are already playing Christmas music? It is my misery.
The rest of the afternoon Faith and I would be having a perfectly lovely conversation about the weather or her jewelry making and then it would happen. I would start humming Feliz Navidad. The worst part is that I don’t know the words. I’d start to sing, “Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad. Feliz Navidad pelos compano blato mun-yan….” Ack! STOP!!!
We tried to sing other sticky songs to shake that one out of my head…”It’s a Small World,” “I like to move it move it,” “The lion sleeps tonight,” nothing worked!
By the way, I looked it up and those songs that get stuck in your head are called earworms. Now THAT is enough to make me stop getting stuck on them. I am completely grossed out. Running through my head is that scene in Star Trek II Wrath of Kahn when those creepy bugs came out of those guys’ ears. Blech! And all I can think now is, “KAAAAHHHNNNNN!!!!” just like Captain Kirk yelled it.
I am seriously disturbed. Let’s change the subject.
What do y’all want to talk about? I need a suggestion because my mind is swimming with Spanish Christmas songs and ear bugs.
Welcome to my world.
you.are.hilarious!
I’ve never seen the movie you referenced. Maybe I should. Hmmm…..
What to talk about….are you cooking anything for Thanksgiving? How does your family celebrate? Who helps you cook? It’s nearly that time, right? I’m not sure if we will do a big meal or not this year. Should I, you think?
Oh boy, can I ever relate. But usually I’M the one that comes up with the song and as soon as I sing it out loud it’s like releasing it and it’s gone. The down side is that a family member picks it up and gets it stuck in THERE head. Usually it’s my hubby. Look at this funny I posted awhile back. This is so my hubby and I! http://homesteadersheart.blogspot.com/2011/08/friday-funnies_26.html
I was such a Trekie, Treky, Treki, back in the day.
Have a great weekend.
Kim
That is so funny! My little 2 year old will sing songs over and over and over again until we all scream. I am going to tell her she is giving mommy earworms!
…prospero ano y felicidad…Now I’ll be stuck on it all day….with all the words.
Reader….thank you! Those questions actually made me stop and start thinking about something else. Of course now I am stressed about Thanksgiving. LOL!
Kathy, I hope my torture helps you understand what you are doing to your husband. 🙂
Oh Bev….if she starts saying “earworms” all of the time don’t blame me.
James, thanks a LOT. Now I’m going to be stuck in a car with you and you will be singing it.
The desticking song that works for me is barbara manatee from veggie tales. It will drive anything out of my head and fortunately, doesn’t stay long unless the kids hear me humming it…. K
My earworm lately has been, “Dumb dog… why are you following me?” You know, from the old movie Annie. It’s really not a good song to be singing around the house. “I ain’t gonna feed ya… ain’t got a scrap for ya, need ya…” My kids need me to find a new song.
sticky song’s are called ‘ear worms’ to me, cuz they seem to burrow in and won’t go away GAH!!!
I hate that song! Really, hate it. Thanks, now it is in my ear.
That song sticks very easily! I can almost get it stuck just reading about it! I also agree that it is hard to find clothes for juniors that aren’t suggestive!
Oh, this happens to me ALL the time. Last week, I hummed the song, Caledonia, ALL the time. Eventually, my girls – who actually like the song, but who were sooooo sick of it – would cry out, Noooooo…. Mum, find something else to sing. Pleeeease! I changed it to Doh, a Deer, a female deer; Ray…..
Hah – that’ll teach them not to moan about what I’m singing 😉
I agree with Kim @ Homesteader’s Heart: if a song gets stuck in my head, singing it through to the end almost always releases it for me too.
In the same way, when my ear(s) ring(s), if I match the pitch vocally for just a few seconds, the ringing will almost always stop. (You don’t want to be near me in public when my ears start ringing! Or, for that matter, when a song gets stuck in my head…I can’t sing at all.)