How can you get a song out of your head?

Question

I ALWAYS have songs stuck in my head and it's really annoying sometimes. please don't tell me to go think of another song. then I'll just have that one stuck in my head.

Answer 1

Personally, the only way I have ever found is replacing it with another song. Right now I'm playing the theme song to "21 Jump Street" because I just bought -- and of course played -- the entire second season over the weekend. But you might try finding something you like well enough to let it play on, and play the CD (or DVD, in this case) whenever something you don't like as well starts getting stuck.

We who love music must live with this phenomenon. Even when really bad things are happening, you tend to have a song for it in your head. When My Steve committed suicide, I thought of "Bye, bye bye Baby bye bye" in Janis Joplin's voice: "And you left me here to face it all alone." Believe me, that one can stick like glue!

Now that I think of it, you may have just replaced "21 Jump Street" in my head by inducing that thought . . .

Answer 2

You're not alone. I always have a song in my head. I've grown so accustomed to it that when the music stops, I feel the need to think of another just to create some kind of continuity. I'm a musician, I'm inclined to it. Maybe you should pick up an instrument, it seems it's easy for you to remember songs.

Answer 3

the quickest and easiest way i have found out to get a song out of your head is to complete the song. Like if the chorus is stuck in your head, then complete the entire chorus. This method usually helps me, i hope it will be the same for you.

Answer 4

Hey, I have the same problem, and what is really annoying is
that's its often a song that I don't really like (like Kelly Clarkson's
Hazel Eyes) I don't even remember listening to it that much but
when I get in bed, there it goes, over and over again until I could scream. The only thing that works for me is to try to blank out
my mind, I tried counting, but that gets too interesting, so all I can
do is repeat one over and over again until I get so bored I fall
asleep. Plus I take an antihistamine like Benedryl that helps make
me sleepy.....

Answer 5

I do the same thing and it is usually a song I hate, so I put my music I like on real loud and sing and that other song usually leaves my head....

Answer 6

I dunno, what works, but I can tell ya; drilling holes in one's skull DOES'NT. (lol) Try "confronting" it. Instead of tryin to ignore it, deliberately play the song in yer head, do so repeatedly. When ya have the tune in your head, it becomes subconscious. (barely) Deliberately playin it brings it to the minds "stage", thereby removing it from yer subconscious. It's the exact opposite of the "tip of your tongue" effect. Trying to remember makes it less likely that ya will. It's usually when we give up that the memory resurfaces.
Think of the subc as a pesky little bro/sis. They do stuff to annoy, so using reverse psychology works. LOL Took 5 days of constant repeating of Aerosmith's "Janey got a gun" to get me to try it. Worked though.

Answer 7

listen to that song and sing along. :) i do that and most of the time the song leaves my head.

Answer 8

Get your mind on something where you really need to concentrate -- homework or reading.

Answer 9

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