Ever wondered why songs get stuck in your head?

girish_a · Post by **girish_a** » 17 Dec 2008, 14:45

Read on for more!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 02223.html

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 17 Dec 2008, 22:27

Earthworms... I should have known!

But I don't suppose many of you have the experience of getting a tune stuck in your head and being completely unable to sing it because you don't know raga.

vijay · Post by **vijay** » 18 Dec 2008, 00:49

Thanks Girish - interesting article. No wonder my favourites songs are those of Poonchi's!

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 18 Dec 2008, 01:47

Is a Poonchi related to a Boochi?

(Arasi! Help! Before I get myself into trouble

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arasi · Post by **arasi** » 18 Dec 2008, 09:17

Nick.
I don't know a Poonchi. But a pUchi is an insect. Is an earthworm an insect? A bug? Does an earworm fly like a gnat or your favorite mosquito to get there? Anyway, I would any day have a poochi (Srinivasa Iyengar song) as an ear worm than some inane ad song.

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 18 Dec 2008, 15:01

...that's what I meant. I must check out the p/b with sushi; I thought she had been calling the creatures that come to live in our cats' fur bUchis

shripathi_g · Post by **shripathi_g** » 19 Dec 2008, 04:03

"But I don't suppose many of you have the experience of getting a tune stuck in your head and being completely unable to sing it because you don't know raga."

I sure do but that doesn't deter me from conducting noise warfare on my neighbors.

vasanthakokilam · Post by **vasanthakokilam** » 19 Dec 2008, 08:37

One of the suggestions given to possibly get rid of it is

'Walk to a different tempo from the one in the earworm."

That is quite an intriguing suggestion indeed.

arasi · Post by **arasi** » 19 Dec 2008, 21:42

naDaiyai mATRi naDaiyaik kaTTuvadu! (change the tempo and take a hike!). Good idea, VK...

Nick H · Post by **Nick H** » 19 Dec 2008, 23:09

EARworm!!!

Oh dear... I really did read it as EARTHworm <Blush>