and the Angel of Music sings songs in my head…
So I was thinking when I was titling my last post… I almost always have a song playing in my head. I’m not just talking, ‘oh I’ve got that stupid song stuck in my head!’, it’s more like a running soundtrack playing in the background – sometime the same song over and over (especially after I’ve been listening to something obsessively), sometimes whatever song was playing when my radio alarm went off in the morning, and frequently in the lab, for some unknown reason, I jump to ‘Killing me softly’ (I love the song, but I don’t understand why it comes up so often 
). Now I’ve been told that singing ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ can get any song unstuck from your head, but since the only words I know are ‘the girls from ipanema’, well, that’s not much help… plus, unless the song is really irritating, I don’t really mind the soundtrack of my life – it’d be kinda quiet without it I think 
Well, I’m one of those people on that “The Girl from Ipanema” train. I only break it out, though, when the song stuck in my head is particularly insipid. That hasn’t happened lately, though … mainly because I choose my musical inputs carefully.
But if you use “The Girl From Ipanema” to get a song out of your head, don’t you then have Ipanema in your head? What do you do to get rid of that?
(And why does the comment button say “abschicken”? That’s a funny word. Like someone who’s afraid to do crunches.)
Clinical trials have shown that “The Girl From Ipanema” typically isn’t “sticky” and doesn’t get caught in the listener’s brain. Your mileage may truly vary.
The “Abschicken” thing comes from the fact that this theme’s developer was not a native English speaker and didn’t leverage the localization power of WordPress to do work for him. Bad dev!
i just have to listen to different songs before a song gets out of my head. upon reading this entry, now i’ll be thinking of ‘girl from ipanema’, but i’m with brandi, why wouldn’t THAT song be stuck in your head then?
songs being stuck aren’t always bad things, back when the fitty cent song “P.I.M.P.” song came out, i was running a 10k, and it was soothing and kept me from thinking how far i was running.
“i don’t care what you know about me…”