ANVEEROY 61,219 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 La, la, la, la, la, la-la laaaa ... Can’t get it out of your head? 90% of us get earworms – those fragments of tunes that get stuck on a loop in your brain and which are impossible to dislodge for hours, days – and in some pathological cases, months and years. The German word for them, “Ohrwürmer”, translates literally as “earworms”, which rather brilliantly conveys the idea of a piece of music as an insectoid invader burrowing its way through your ears until it infects your brain and echoes round and round, beyond your control. That’s why they’re also known as brain worms, or simply sticky music. Just to name a few that have haunted me over the last few weeks, I can’t get the theme tune to Black Beauty nor the opening of Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances nor the cues for Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure for the Nintendo DS out of my head, to say nothing of the jingle for British Airways – actually by French composer Léo Delibes. Nor the Hovis advert with the bicycle and the cobbled street and the tune from Dvorák’s New World Symphony: round and round they go like a wheel within a wheel. And now The Windmills of Your Mind is stuck in my cranium … In research that came out last year, academics have looked deeper into what musical factors make a tune more likely to turn into an earworm. It must neither be too simple, nor too complex, explains Dr Kelly Jakubowski. It must also have a largely predictable or symmetrical melodic contour, but also feature a memorable quirk, such as an unexpected jump down or leap up between notes, something that helps it stick in our minds. And according to the research, it’s likely to be a Lady Gaga tune that you’re now humming – since Gaga had three of the Top 10 earworms in 3,000 British brains, with Bad Romance in the No 1 spot. More @https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/oct/13/lady-gaga-rigoletto-ode-to-joy-and-elizas-aria-earworms-all-of-them Stream Kylie-Janet Discographies! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haroon 49,685 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Lady Earworm When will your invertebrate? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanGUY 4,609 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 I to M to the P A C T ꧁ 𝕛'𝕧𝕖𝕦𝕩 𝕡𝕒𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕚𝕣 𝕥𝕠𝕦𝕥𝕖 𝕤𝕖𝕦𝕝𝕖 ꧂ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Henri Bardot 3,990 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 i feel that i'm reading this while i'm in another dimension and space. sis are those worms from mars pooiota Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimisaMonster 31,073 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 What was supposed to be ACT II/LG5 Stream my new single, 💜"Heartbeat"💜, on Spotify! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominic 11,922 Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 1 hour ago, Haroon said: Lady Earworm When will your invertebrate? LMAO The hardest thing in this world is to live in it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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