Earworms
The song that's in my mind, and has been for nearly A WEEK, is Third Eye Blind's "Semi-Charmed Life." Egad:
I guess I'll have to try that purging trick where you listen to it five times in a row. Also, I keep associating the song with a particular Casey Kasem's Top 40 experience. I don't listen to it every week, and I don't even know if CK is even deejaying it anymore, but anyway, sometimes, when CK is announcing the number one song, he does so in such a delighted manner, like he was SO PROUD of Third Eye Blind for going all the way to #1. He may do this no matter what song is #1; like I said, I don't listen to it that often. Other songs I've noticed he did this with include Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" and "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas.
Comments
I like that song
and I don't care who knows it.
One of my friends used to sing "A cow kicked Nellie in the Belly in the Barn" several times to chase away such songs. Of course, then you had the cow song in your head.
My most pernicious earworm is the Proclaimers' 500 miles. There's a very funny sequence about it on How I Met Your Mother.