anti-earworm medicine

[lolmac]

This is my own remedy for a particular earworm, brought about by a certain Evil Song that Thothmes quoted earlier today in her latest brilliant crackfic (inspired, I am proud to say, by today's LOLMac).

No, I'm not going to give the title of the song outside of a cut, because it's one of those songs in which the title alone can trigger the worm.

Comments

[thothmes]

THANK YOU! Much better than the original, and a very good antidote. Now my sister won't be able to terrorize me with that particular earworm again. Heh!

My usual antidote to earworms is to sing the Bryn Mawr May Day maypole dancing song ("To the maypole let us on"), not with it's orginal words, nor with the parody words, but as we all sang it while learning to do the dance (Onnne twoo three HOP, onnne twoo three HOP...). There's something about focusing on the physical action and the muscle memory that seems to clear the buffer and extinguish other earworms.

[lolmac]

Heheheheheh

[justice_turtle]

Eee, that is AWESOME. *bookmarks*

(My standard earworm remedy is singing the "Gilligan's Island" themesong to the tune of "Amazing Grace" or vice versa. It works because I have to think too hard about it to keep any other song stuck in my head. *g*)

[lolmac]

That would just earworm me even worse, and I'd probably have to belt some Stan Rogers until I drowned it out.

I also have a marvelous, and not at all nice, parody to "Danny Boy" which I call on at need.

[justice_turtle]

'parody to "Danny Boy"'

Oh? *chinhands* :-)

[damigella_314]

I never realised that being tone-deaf makes me immune to earworms. Thanks for making it feel like a superpower instead of a handicap :).
OT: it would be so cool to have a popular song with that text and everyone learning what a Dyson sphere is.

[lolmac]

It's a feature, not a bug!!

There's also a parody to the US folk song 'Home on the Range" that includes this chorus:

Home, home on LaGrange,
Where the space debris always collects;
We possess, so it seems, two of man's greatest dreams:
Solar power, and zero-gee sex.

[sidlj]

My hometown Symphony Orchestra plays a concert every year for all the School District 5th graders, and the Unified District covers the entire county. I don't know, that might be the reason I got into music in grade school and ultimately joined the Symphony, or I could have just followed my big brother's footsteps, who might have been influenced by the concert he saw. Each year, every 5th grader in the District learns to sing one song, that they will sing along with the Symphony accompaniment.

Yes. One year it was the song You Dare Not Name.

There is nothing more thrilling than witnessing an entire auditorium full of 5th graders rise to their feet...or more terrifying than knowing what they are about to sing...

And being complicit... *shudders*

[lolmac]

*shudders* One-stop PTSD!

[vilakins]

My earworm cure is the Darth Vader theme.Dah dah dah da-da-dah da-da-dah.

[lolmac]

Short and dangerously effective!