Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head - Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis

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Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays until you find yourself unloading the vegetables in time to the beat? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores earworms — a cognitive phenomenon that plagues over 90% of people at least once a week.

Lesson by Elizabeth Margulis, animation by Artrake Studio.

[jhumana]

Dear Earworms,
Please do not enter my brain or come near me during an exam
Yours Sincerely,
A student who is going to fail anyway but doesn't want it to be due to a favourite song

[midgetthingers]

Left brain : "Hello from the other SIIIIDEEEE".  Right Brain : "SHUT THE HELL UP".

[ej]

I feel like im the only one who enjoys it when I get an earworm. I always hear people saying negative things about them and Im just sitting over hear dancing in my head having a good time.

[kateg]

Am I the only one who gets multiple earworms that play simultaneously in my head? It's like I unconsciously mix songs together without realizing it until later.

[mjosesintilde]

Nobody:
TedEd: you're probably not thinking who let the dogs out
Me with my macho voice: WHO WHO WHO WHO

[Volzotran]

when I have a song stuck in my head, I usually listen to another song but then I get another earworm. ..

[savagedragon]

idky but i started crackin up at the ella ella ella part

[dontwatchtheworldburn]

And if not, we can just SHAKE IT OFF.

DAMN IT, TEDED! Why?!?!?!

[Yosori]

Me: Learned a song 10 years ago.
Me: Forgot how it even sounded like.
Brain worm at some point in time: Here is the music sheet and here are the lyrics, just in case ¶:
Me: *visible confusion*

[troto]

Left brain: Rolling in the dee-

Right brain: SHUT UP.

Left brain: *nevermind I’ll find someone like you...*

[Rzkytron]

The ammount of songs pun in this video is over 9000

[amphibiangoddess]

I get names or random words stuck in my head. It's weird.

[BudiSantoso-sium]

Me at an exam: *Focusing*

My brain: "NEVER GONNA GIVE YOU UP"

Me: Shut up please!!!!

My brain: "FIRST THING FIRST IMMA SAY ALL THE WORDS INSIDE MY BRAIN"

Me: gafafgssggssghdhsjsj-

[bribera]

*Finishes watching video*; my brain the next two hours; "SHAKE IT OFF, SHAKE IT OFF UHHUHH"

[LanieMae]

I remember once getting my favourite song stuck in my head, it was AMAZING

[Agent_X]

When he said "ella ella ella" I immediately started singing Umbrella by Rihanna

[snazzysnake]

I love that Taylor swift joke at the end

[galaxyofneon._.]

Goddamnit the "Yolo Yolo Yolo yo" part in Go Go and the "did you see my bag" part in MIC Drop are ringing in my ears now

[pedroe.escobedo]

I recently composed my own song, orchestrated every instrument and now perform it with my band, but it has been haunting me for weeks now. I listen to it on repeat in my head so much, and it has becoming a living nightmare trying to go to sleep recently.

[ryanyao]

let’s be honest, all of us thought up a song to get stuck in our head while watching this video