An earworm is a song that gets stuck in your head. It’s usually not a song you would choose to hear over and over again, but earworms are tough to shake.
‘Tis the season when earworms prosper – there’s something about holiday music. I usually come home from holiday shopping with an earworm and fa la la la for a few days afterward. I went shopping last week, trying to close my ears to the music, even though that was unlikely to work.
I came home with an earworm.
But it wasn’t one I expected. My earworm is The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Now who would be playing that dark little ballad to encourage holiday spending? I can’t remember, but I can’t shake the tune either. It’s not one of my favourite songs at the best of times, and I really could do without it right now.
Have you caught an earworm during your shopping? Which song was it? What have to done to get rid of it?
Deborah Cooke: Author 
4 responses to “Earworms”
Oh, I love that song.
Earworms, argh, I fear them and often get them.
Shopping and catching an earworm, I don’t think so. Yesterday with Dawg, the minions, it might have been preferable. 😉
Happy holidays.
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My earworms most often come courtesy of my husband. He delights in singing songs, known and not-so-well-known, and replacing the rather pedestrian words with his own more twisted versions. He’s very good at it. There’s a whole subgenre of that called “filking’ popular at sci fi (and other) conventions.
But I do get the occasional odd glance if someone here’s me singing the ‘filked’ version.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald is such an earworm song – I always get the cook’s line caught in my head and can’t shake it.
Of course, that it’s something like 9 minutes long gives it plenty of time to worm itself into your head!
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I do love that song. Haven’t heard it for a while.
Not while shopping (because my shopping this year has been mostly internet) but whilst visiting the daughter, I caught my most recent earworm, which is the theme music to “In Like Flint.” It followed me everywhere last week.
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