Earworms - I just can't get you out of my head!

DaakSyde · September 22, 2019, 1:43am

RAvery · September 22, 2019, 2:10pm

I don’t see the connection between the two, but I want to.

Pogo · September 30, 2019, 2:21am

I think Jimmy Somerville set up house inside my head.

Franko · December 6, 2019, 7:39pm

hey, remember this thread? i’ve had Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross’s “Life on Mars” in my head all week. Anyone with me?

RAvery · December 9, 2019, 1:56am

RAvery · January 31, 2020, 4:08am

ChuckV · February 1, 2020, 7:20am

I prefer this version.

RAvery · February 1, 2020, 5:12pm

But that’s a rip-off by a failing Christian rock band.

chenille · February 1, 2020, 6:54pm

Does anyone know the story with the bass line in the chorus? To me it sounds a lot like Super Freak and U Can’t Touch This. The last is obviously a derivative, but the other two both came out in 1981. Is one inspired by the other, or are they both inspired by the same thing, or are they coincidental inventions? I couldn’t find anything useful.

ChuckV · February 2, 2020, 4:06am

Rip off is a little harsh. I imagine the original songwriters got their cut of the royalties.

RAvery · February 2, 2020, 4:52am

I used to like the After the Fire version when I thought it was the original.

ChuckV · February 2, 2020, 2:58pm

Do you know any of After the Fire’s other work?

RAvery · February 2, 2020, 5:09pm

To be honest, at one point I started looking into them. But then I found this song was a duplication of Falco’s version and that they started out as a christian rock group. And after that I didn’t feel inspired to look any further.

ChuckV · February 2, 2020, 5:55pm

I’ve never heard anything else, either. I note that TrouserPress says good things about them and doesn’t mention the Christian rock thing. Perhaps they were Christian rock a la U2 or Genesis, rather than a band whose work contains nothing of note other than Christian proselytizing.

Nonentity · August 6, 2020, 2:30am

Someone I know has an issue with “You’ll Be Back” from Hamilton becoming an earworm, to the point that just hearing a little bit of it will drive them to go listen to the whole song through.

So, while feeling a little snarky I sang a mash-up between that song and “Mahna-Mahna” in their presence. Tough to put to text, but along the lines of: “Yaa da-dah dah daaaah dat dah dat dodo do doot. doot dooo do-do doot”. And then riffed on things a little from there, kinda getting close to a decent mash-up of the two songs…

…yeah, I know, I’m a monster.

Wisconsin_Platt · August 12, 2020, 4:19am

Ever since the VP Anouncement…

Is it true she can’t sing but keeps the beat and keeps it strong?

RAvery · August 14, 2020, 3:30am

Chaz1 · August 18, 2020, 4:03pm

RAvery · September 11, 2020, 2:35am

Lucy_Gothro1 · October 2, 2020, 10:22pm

Musically, they’re not bad…but as pre-teens, their voices are changing. I’ve sung along with it (in tune, lol), and it’s really a fun song to sing.

SNL…was funny in spots, and certainly had its day, but there was so much unrelatable stuff, especially after the first five seasons. SCTV is more accessible to me. And I think it’s in part that it was done in Canada, not NYC. Ironic that Lorne Michaels was Canadian though, eh?