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January 11, 2006
Earworm!
There is always music running through my mind.
Sometimes I will purposefully run a favorite song through my head, from start to finish. It’s a little like having a juke box in my mind.
But while some times I choose the song that plays internally, other days I wake up with a song seemingly chosen for me.
The “chosen” song plays incessantly, and I don’t seem to have any control over it. Then the thought pattern breaks up a little, and I’m left with a song fragment continually running through my inner ear.
I have an “earworm.” - a piece of music I can’t seem to get out of my mind.
What’s my “earworm” for today? You’d never guess in a million years.
It’s the section of “So What” by Miles Davis, where Bill Evans begins his piano solo.
I’m not too bothered by this, since I really like that solo.
If you are unfamiliar with “So What,” I would strongly suggest that you rush out (or rush online) and get a hold of a copy of “Kind of Blue,” by Miles Davis.
Believe me, I’m not the only person who ever had “So What” running through his mind.
So, what do you do if you have an earworm, but it’s a song you truly hate?
Someone once told me that if you start thinking about the theme song for “I Dream of Jeannie” then your earworm would be swept away.
Unfortunately, however, it will be replaced with the theme song for “I Dream of Jeannie”.
Posted by leon at January 11, 2006 12:00 PM