Earworm - Wikipedia Earworm songs usually have a fast-paced tempo and an easy-to-remember melody However, earworms also tend to have unusual intervals or repetitions that make them stand out from other songs
What Is an Earworm? How to Get a Song Out of Your Head Because even if it’s a funny song, that endless feeling of déjà vu can get really annoying Read on to find out what an earworm is and—most important—how to get it out of your brain
“Earworms”: What They Are, How to Get Rid of Them An earworm is “a short snippet of music that comes unbidden into the mind and then repeats outside the will of conscious control” (from an interview in Europe’s Journal of Psychology)
Earworms – Music Science What is an earworm? An earworm is the spontaneous mental recall and repetition of a piece of music, often referred to in everyday terms as having a song stuck in one's head
What is an earworm and how do you get rid of one? - Classic FM What is an earworm? The technical term is ‘involuntary musical imagery’, or INMI, and a study by Durham University published in 2014 described them as ‘perceptions of spontaneous, repetitive musical sound in the absence of an external source’
Stuck song syndrome: musical obsessions — when to look for OCD Earworms or musical obsessions (also known as stuck song syndrome [SSS]) are common in the general population, but can be more pronounced and debilitating in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)