I have a song stuck in my head and it's driving me crazy! I have had it stuck in there for about 2 days now. I don't even like the song. In fact, I hate the song!
2007-10-24 03:24:52 · 104 answers · asked by USAman 6 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
That happens to me all the time!
For whatever reason, your brain is stuck like a broken record on a piece of that song.
In order to "get past" it, I suggest that you listen to the song over and over until you get sick of it. Sometimes I only have to listen to a song twice all the way through to get it out of my head.
Try it! Seriously, what have you got to lose? Is the song going to get *more* stuck in your head?
2007-10-24 13:02:15 · answer #1 · answered by Red 2 · 95⤊ 41⤋
Listen to music other than the song stuck in your head. That always gets a song out of my head.
2007-10-25 08:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Turn on your radio or listen to a CD and focus on the song you hear from the speakers, not the one in your head.
If you don't have a stereo or ipod handy, then sing a few bars of a song that you like. Soon, the other song will be out of your head. The song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" usually works for me.
2007-10-25 08:39:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is wild. They say when you get a song stuck in you head that means you love the song to much. but in your cause you hate it, it can only mean one thing. that it is trying to send you a message of some sort either for you self,a friend or someone you love don't know you have to pick up on the deatials and start talking to people and see if goes away.
who knows the reason why it is stuck in you head.
For my i got a song stuck in my head for weeks and found out it was played at my sisters weeding and it went away,
2007-10-25 08:24:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sing the tune, as others have said. Focus your attention on the tune, not your head. ^_^
And then....deliberately mess it up. Sing it off-key. Change the lyrics. Make wisecracks at the original lyrics--yes, even if you like the song. Some of this will happen anyway as you likely only remember the most annoying piece of the tune.
The point of it is to *wear out* the emotional or sensory association that your brain is stuck on with the tune. Get your feeling about the tune out of your head and system. Laugh at it, mock how the damn silly tune makes you feel.
And if that doesn't work, *buy the CD* and run it over with a Big Honking Truck repeatedly until doing *that* gets your brain unstuck.
Hope this helps. ^_^
2007-10-25 06:43:16 · answer #5 · answered by Bradley P 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Heh-heh! I have that happen ALL the time! The worst thing is that you can get really sick of a song you love, due to it! Right now, I'm fighting off "Blue Jean", by Bowie, with some songs from "Blood on the Tracks" by Dylan and other songs by Green Day. Some people can block out music at will...lucky...by not me. Replacing it with other songs it the only way I know.
2007-10-25 05:24:36 · answer #6 · answered by RandomGonzo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to someones kid sing a song with a good beat that you don't know the words too, that should change the channel. But you might be stuck on the new song :)
2007-10-25 06:12:19 · answer #7 · answered by cin d 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone once told me that all you have to do is sing the song "Jesus Loves Me" and that will get rid of the song that's bugging you. The theory behind it is that the reason you get a song stuck in your head is because you don't know it very well and your mind wants to finish it in it's entirety. Singing another song that you know by heart therefore will get rid of the one stuck in your head.
2007-10-25 06:35:12 · answer #8 · answered by importedleafsfan 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Earworms.
That's what VH1's "Best Week Ever" called a song that gets in your head and just won't go. They brought it up because "Hey Ya" by Outkast was #1 for weeks upon weeks and it was the common "earworm" song at the time.
The thing was, they said, that with that song, you didn't mind it playing in your head 24/7! *It's true, don't you think?*
Anyway, I could almost cry when this happens to me. It happens a lot now because of that g.d. hair commercial that plays "Unwritten" by Natasha Bedingfield. I dread that dang thing coming on because I know it'll be in my brain for the rest of the night.
What do I do to get rid of it? I read. I try to sing a different song. I try to focus on a tv show (and pray they don't air that commercial again.)
If all those attempts fail, I just pull my hair out.
:-)
2007-10-25 07:43:58 · answer #9 · answered by k9 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sing another song over and over aloud but not too loud and wake mommy up and then before you know it , you will have that song stuck in your head all day and then it will go away because you like it and not hate it
2007-10-25 05:24:51 · answer #10 · answered by Shugamomma 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you listen to another song you will likely just get that one stuck in your head, too. Or then you will have two songs interchanging in your head. This crap happens to me ALL the time to the point where I start Weird Al-ing the song and replacing words like "love" with "lunch" and then creating a whole song about lunchfoods. I am the master of this unfortunately. SO, in saying that, I suggest you do a crossword puzzle or Sudoku or something really pointless, but brain consuming and at first you will keep singing it, then it will die down to a hum and soon it will go away...
2007-10-25 05:17:52 · answer #11 · answered by Gena 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋