How do you get rid on an &quot;ear worm&quot;?

Lemon Demon - The Ultimate Showdown with lyrics

vanny

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse may be..lol

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Lyrics- Old Godzilla was hopping around Tokyo City like a big playground when suddenly Batman burst from the shade and hit Godzilla with a Batgrenade Godzill...

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Jekca

@Jessicalynnt (50523)

• Centralia, Missouri

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse I was about to link it and see that vandana already did, it's funny!

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@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

What on earth is "Ultimate Showdown"?

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189820)

• Boise, Idaho

20 Mar 16

I have never heard of an 'ear worm; and it sounds awful. What you do is put your ear phones on and listen to about an hour of your favorite music on You Tube. If that doesn't do it nothing will.

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (189820)

• Boise, Idaho

20 Mar 16

@pgntwo ...Well, I obviously don't get out enough.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

20 Mar 16

@celticeagle Let the Internet be your window out onto this world now and then ;)

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

20 Mar 16

The phrase comes from the German "Ohrwurm":

earworm - Wiktionary

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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation, search Contents English[edit] Wikipedia has an article on: earworm Wikipedia Etymology[edit] A calque of German Ohrwurm ?(“earworm”). Pronunciation[edit] Noun[edit] earworm ?(plural earwo

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86615)

• United States

20 Mar 16

Play something else. Either something extremely good, or a catchy pop song that's at least better than the one you have stuck in your head. (I recommend "Starry Eyes" by the Records.)

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@teamfreak16 (43577)

• Denver, Colorado

20 Mar 16

I haven't thought about The Records for years. Time to get over to You Tube.

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@teamfreak16 (43577)

• Denver, Colorado

20 Mar 16

Thanks for that, I'd forgotten just how good they were.

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Four Walls

@FourWalls (86615)

• United States

21 Mar 16

@teamfreak16 -- that is a killer song, and much better to have stuck in your head for two hours!

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (40026)

• Toccoa, Georgia

20 Mar 16

Play a totally opposite music genre to get your brain and ear humming and thinking in a different way.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (97957)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

20 Mar 16

@TheHorse I forgot which song it was but when I still lived in NYC there was a song played often on the radio. Finally it hit my ear, my brain and I would hear it even if the radio wasn't on. Finally one night after two nights of torture I stuck cotton in my ears and lay down, closed my eyes and forced myself to think of nothing and go to sleep. When I woke up in the morning it was out of my head but you can believe me that for awhile whenever that song played I turned to another station.

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@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

20 Mar 16

It was to my advantage that @FourWalls went to a Gordon Lightfoot concert.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

20 Mar 16

I do a challenging crfossword or sudoku puzzle.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

20 Mar 16

That's a great solution too! ;)

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ElizabethWallace

@ElizabethWallace (12069)

• United States

21 Mar 16

I read somewhere that an ear worm is caused when we do not know all of the words in a musical piece. So, if that is true, find the lyrics somewhere online, and it should go away. Works for me.

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Patsie Hatley is Deceased

@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Mar 16

I hadn't heard that. But I didn't want to re-traumatize myself by thinking about that song any more. So I just started singing Gordon Lightfoot songs.

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ElizabethWallace

@ElizabethWallace (12069)

• United States

24 Mar 16

@TheHorse As long as they don't get stuck, and it works for you, then great. If not, then the Internet is always there to find the lyrics.

@Hatley (163772)

• Garden Grove, California

23 Mar 16

try thinking of ano ther song I really like like I cant help falling in LOve with you sung by Elvis Presley

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@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Mar 16

That's a good classic.

mommaj

@mommaj (23112)

• United States

20 Mar 16

I usually think of another "Ear Worm" song to sing or sing the ABCs over and over. Course that makes another problem. I won't be able to get that song out of my head.

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mommaj

@mommaj (23112)

• United States

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse Time for some Bieber. Hahaha

@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

Gorgon Lightfoot worked. But now I'm stuck on Hendrix.

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vanny

@vandana7 (102698)

• India

21 Mar 16

Why do you want to get rid of it in the first place? lol. I like Justin Bieber. Thank god, we have some songs that both of us do like...though I still rank your classical music to be really much superior to what passes off as music these days.

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Bing Crosby- When Irish Eyes are Smiling (1939)

@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

I actually like Bieber's "Love Yourself." Don't tell anyone, though.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (153544)

• India

21 Mar 16

How about trying to sing another song - My favourite

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Bing Crosby's version of the Irish Folk song. Recorded in 1939.

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Always smiling

@allknowing (153544)

• India

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse Explain, explain. This is Greek to me

@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

I refuse. "Saint Stephen will remain/all he lost he shall regain."

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Boingboing

@boiboing (13147)

• Northampton, England

21 Mar 16

I think the only say is to plant a new one.

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@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

23 Mar 16

That's what I did. It worked.

Judy Evans

@JudyEv (381905)

• Rockingham, Australia

21 Mar 16

I'm with Four Walls. Play something else - quick! :)

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@teamfreak16 (43577)

• Denver, Colorado

20 Mar 16

For some reason, my brain like's to stick me with "The Electric Slide." Yuck.

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@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

I'd have to Youtube that one. But I won't. I trust you.

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@teamfreak16 (43577)

• Denver, Colorado

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse - It's by Marcia Griffiths, one of Bob Marley's backup singers. It's just awful.

Shurhonda Henderson

@Talknpen (1820)

• United States

21 Mar 16

Hey there By the Horse. In my experience, it takes time. If the "ear worm" is that bad, just listen to the song as much as you like. This helps to wear it down until there is something else that catches your ear more or you just loose interest for the moment. By the way, you can be in danger of trading one "ear worm" for another, if there are any other songs that you start to have grow on you. The most disciplined approach is to choose not to listen to the song, and avoid playing the song. Try listening to the radio. A variety of stations make the radio a good choose to listen to popular music, classic music, and sometimes mostly instrumental contemporary jazz. The later is great because it soothes and may calm the savage "ear worm".

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Your Highness Emperor Albert Whisker

@TheHorse (238280)

• Walnut Creek, California

21 Mar 16

We didn't record the gig, but I still couldn't get than dang version of...I won't say it...out of my head. Thank goodness for Gordon Lightfoot and Jimi Hendrix.

Shurhonda Henderson

@Talknpen (1820)

• United States

21 Mar 16

@TheHorse whatever works to keep from listening/hearing too much of the same song is worth a try. Sometimes distraction by variety is effective.

@CaptAlbertWhisker (32760)

• Calgary, Alberta

20 Mar 16

It is either give in to the temptation and listen to the song even though you hated and loathed the artist or listen to a song that is catchier but something you actually enjoy.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (502234)

• Italy

21 Mar 16

I try to play other music that I like, but I know that the earn worm will come back as soon as I stop.

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@pgntwo (22405)

• Derry, Northern Ireland

20 Mar 16

As you suspect, I fear, the only way is to displace it with a different ear-worm:

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