It's an "earworm". For the last few mornings I've woken up with that song in my brain. I have no idea who even sings it, but clearly it's my not-so-subconscious mind telling me something. Hmmm...what could it be???
Could it be the $ 20,0000.00 bill we just got for our septic system?
Could it be the second round of ortho for my oldest daughter of $ 2,500.00?
Could it be the weekly therapy sessions for my other daughter at $ 130.00/hour?
Could it be the mysterious leak that we cannot find that is causing our kitchen floor to bubble up at several different locations?
Nahhhh, couldn't be any of those things....could it?
Here's the definition from Wikipedia...
Earworm, a loan translation of the German Ohrwurm,[1] is a portion of a song or other music that repeats compulsively within one's mind, put colloquially as "music being stuck in one's head." Use of the English translation was popularized by James Kellaris, a marketing researcher at the University of Cincinnati, and Daniel Levitin. Kellaris' studies demonstrated that different people have varying susceptibilities to earworms, but that almost everybody has been afflicted with one at some time or another.[2] According to research by James Kellaris, 98% of individuals experience earworms. Women and men experience the phenomenon equally often, but earworms are more likely to last longer for women and to irritate them more than men. (Does that mean that men are less irritating than ear worms???)
The Official Earworm Synonym List includes alternative terms such as "music meme", "humsickness" , "repetunitis", "obsessive musical thought" and "tune wedgy."[7]
What tune wedgy do you have happening today??
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