Songs that get stuck in your head
Songs that get stuck in your head
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#1Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 1:09pm
This morning I woke up with Hasa Diga Eebowai from BOM stuck in my head. This happens a lot with this particular song. I don't know why. I like it, but it's not one of my favorites, and I don't even own the BOM cast recording. This got me thinking of why we get songs that aren't even our favorites stuck in our heads. What is its about some songs that just stick with you?
So I'm curious about what other people experience in this regard. What Broadway songs get stuck in your he'd frequently, and is it because they're your favorites or is there some other reason you keep going back to it? I'm interested to see if there are songs a lot of people have in common.
brdway411
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/24/14
#3Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 2:03pm
This is a recent thing, since I had never heard Here Lies Love until the other day, but Florence Welch singing the title song on the concept album has been stuck in my head for the past week.
"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."
#4Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 2:11pm
I read somewhere that there's a new word for songs that get stuck in people's heads: earworms. (I hate to think why -- I've always suspected that the term comes from those gross things in the Star Trek movies that crawl into people's ears and take over.) I'll bet there's a scientific reason that particular melodies get stuck and not others, because many people agree on which songs are earworms and which aren't; how many of us have the Habanera from Carmen get stuck, as opposed to M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E? 
To me, the number 1 earworm of all time, even worse than the Mickey Mouse theme, is another Disney number, "It's a small world." Go through Disneyland on the 7-minute boat ride and you'll be singing it for the rest of the day.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#5Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 2:34pm
Dang, AHL, now that song is gonna be my earworm for the day!
Lately, the lyric that's constantly on repeat in my brain:
"and you're shining like the brightest star,
A transmission on the midnight radio."
At least it's like a constant positive affirmation and gets me through some tough days!
#6Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 3:36pm
AND YOUR KEYS OHHHH, YOUR RING OF KEYS
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fb1123
Understudy Joined: 6/25/08
VintageSnarker
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/30/15
#8Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 6:21pm
Almost anything and everything. I find that songs from The Wild Party (Lippa), Hair, Show Boat, Gypsy, and Chicago are particularly ear wormy so I have them at the top of my playlist so I can listen to them whenever I need to exorcise that melody from my brain.
#9Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 8:10pm
What's new, Buenos Aires?!
Seriously, Evita gets stuck in my head at the least once a day. And this is REALLY random but Gypsy in My Soul from Patti LuPone's Far Away Places album is ALWAYS in my head. And I love it.
#10Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 8:22pm
That damn Febreeze jingle.
On the Broadway iTunes Radio station :)
Auggie27
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/03
#11Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 8:32pm
Currently, "Maps" from FUN HOME. "Allegheny, Bum bum bum..."
"I'm a comedian, but in my spare time, things bother me." Garry Shandling
#12Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 8:33pm
La Vie Boheme
Sugar Daddy
A Musical
Tradition
"We love you Conrad....oh yes we dooooo" (Does that song have a name?)
Hasa Diga Ebowai
Popular
Welcome to the 60s
beilis32
Understudy Joined: 7/12/14
#13Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 8:59pm
Well, at this exact moment I am listening to It's All The Same from Man of La Mancha for the like the 8th time in a row, having just listened to it for the first time just a few minutes ago. I don''t know why (or who's to blame?) but I find it really catchy and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio has a really unique voice. Also, I just got into Porgy and Bess and A Woman is a Sometime Thing has been up there for hours lately! And Ring of Keys was on a loop for several weeks after the Tonys, I'm sure I'm not the only one!
#14Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 9:05pm
Mine from the musical theatre world:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Picture Show from BONNIE & CLYDE
Overture from DO-RE-MI
A Little More Mascara from LA CAGE
Any given day I will be singing these as I walk down the street. The first two especially.
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#15Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 9:27pm
Recently...
"How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean, by Providence impoverished, to squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
The ten-dollar Founding Father without a father"
#16Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 9:59pm
"Hey yo I'm just like my country, I'm young, scrappy and hungry and I am not throwin' away my shot"
#17Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 10:02pm
This Time Next Year - Sunset Boulevard
Where You Are - Kiss Of The Spider Woman (both Chita and Vanessa)
Hernando's Hideaway - The Pajama Game
Crime Of The Century - Ragtime
I Enjoy Being A Girl - Flower Drum Song
I Can Has Cheezburger With This?
#18Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 10:27pm
Bobby And Jackie And Jack is probably the number one contender for me, which drives me nuts because I can never remember half the lyrics so it gets mushed into an endless loop. Runner-up is the entire first, like, thirty minutes of LaChiusa's Wild Party, which I love but not when I'm trying to sleep.
#19Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 10:36pm
Something About This Night-Finding Neverland
Ring of Keys-Fun Home
Jellicle Songs For Jellicle Cats-CATS
Candy Store-Heathers (Even though I hate this show.)
Der Tanz der Vampire-Tanz der Vampire
My Shot (?)-Hamilton
Sugar Daddy-Hedwig and the Angry Inch
"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire
Updated On: 8/17/15 at 10:36 PM
#20Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 10:54pm
pretty much all of Kinky Boots is routinely stuck in my head
Broadway Stud
Swing Joined: 6/13/07
#21Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/16/15 at 10:56pm
I was just thinking about this the other day after watching the preview video for "The Fix." The song, I assume, is called "One-Two-Three" but that is a guess. I can not get it out of my head.
Updated On: 8/16/15 at 10:56 PM
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#22Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/17/15 at 12:28am
I don't even know all these so it looks like I've got some exploring to do. :)
thanks all for sharing. I find it interesting.
The other one running through my head lately is "helpless" from Hamilton. Before that it was "wait for it." Can't wait until I have a cast recording since I'm sure the versions running through my head have entirely the wrong lyrics. Hopefully I don't sing the wrong lyrics forever now...
#23Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/17/15 at 1:28am
"I can never remember half the lyrics so it gets mushed into an endless loop."
That's literally ALL OF MINE
Keeping BroadwayWorld Illustrated
#24Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/17/15 at 6:13am
Charming - Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812
Welcome to the Renaissance - Something Rotten
Real Live Girl - Little Me
....but the world goes 'round
ChiTheaterFan
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/9/15
#25Songs that get stuck in your head
Posted: 8/17/15 at 7:13am
""I can never remember half the lyrics so it gets mushed into an endless loop."
That's literally ALL OF MINE
"
I have the opposite problem. Lyrics stick in my head very well. The reason it's a problem is once they're there, they're there so if I mishear them I'll be forever singing the wrong words, even if o consciously know I'm wrong!
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