- Do you listen to more of it? Less?
- Do you focus on a different song?
- Do you stop listening to music until it’s gone?
Luckily most of the songs that get stuck in my head are ones I like, so I just let them play until it ends. After that, some other thought(s) occupy my mind, or another song plays.
If it’s an annoying one though? Relax and let it pass like a fart in the wind.
Unless it’s some crappy song, just listen to it on repeat until you grow sick of it.
listen to the end of the song or verse, you probably have the middle bit stuck and you just gotta bring it to a conclusion.
[off topic]
‘The Demolished Man’ by Alfred Bester.
In a future with psychic police officers, a billionaire is planning a murder.
To protect himself from ‘peepers’ he goes to one of his advertising agencies and tricks a writer into playing him the worst earworm known to science.
When he’s around the telepath he just remembers the jingle, over and over.
i find other songs from that album/artist and see if they’re good
It’s a sign that you’re not sleeping enough. Catch some Z’s.
I find that this is often the case
I try not to sing along in public as it plays in my head, because it’s usually some obscene or violent death metal, or deliberately edgy rude cover of a popular song.
I just let it play out in my head and don’t take any action.
It’s my brain trying to complete the song. I just listen to it until I’ve memorized it from beginning to to end
I will sing it and will try to spread it to other people
Find a different song to get stuck in my head.
Wow, you responded really quickly!
I try to do something similar, though the temptation to listen to more of the stuck song is strong too.
I believe it was Colbert who was talking about this situation and said you need something really distinctive but not long enough to become a new ear worm. He suggested the “by mennen” jingle, which if you’re too young or not American enough to know it is literally just 2 seconds of singing the company’s name
luck of the draw when browsing by new.
sing it, usually
Accept that it’s there and go about my day. It will fade just as all the others before it.
I hum “America” from West Side Story.
I read somewhere years ago that it kicks out earworms without becoming one, and I found that it works for me.
This so weird, I do exactly the same thing except instead of ‘America’ I sing ‘Jet Song’.
“When you’re a jet, you’re a jet all the way…” and all of a sudden the ear worm is gone
