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Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

Daily Game: Songs That Are Stuck in Your Head

Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND

Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts

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4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Today's game features ear worms, or a catchy or memorable piece of music that continuously occupies your mind even after it is no longer being played or spoken about!

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0:00.0

Let's play a game with Elvester Ran in the morning show.

0:06.0

You know sometimes you get that song stuck in your head and you can't get it out and you sing it all day long.

0:11.0

Oh yeah.

0:12.0

But not the whole song, you sing like one line of the song all day long.

0:15.0

And you drive to everybody crazy.

0:16.0

Yeah, including yourself.

0:18.0

It's called an earworm.

0:21.0

And you sing it over and over and over and you're like, damn it!

0:25.0

Actually, Gaudi says there's psychology behind this.

0:28.0

Yeah, apparently I had no idea.

0:31.0

But the more anxiety you have, the more likely you are to get a song stuck in your head.

0:35.0

So yeah, they're saying people with OCD, high anxiety, PTSD, things like that.

0:40.0

They probably have songs bouncing around in their head all the time.

0:43.0

And the way to get rid of it, as Elvester said, plenty of times, you have to hear the entire thing start to finish.

0:49.0

Give yourself that closure and move on.

0:51.0

And they said that sometimes composers, there are certain like song patterns that can get stuck in your head more than others.

0:57.0

And that a lot of composers and writers of music try to write those songs together.

1:02.0

They're trying to drive us nuts?

1:04.0

Yeah.

1:05.0

They want you to hear it over and over and over and over.

1:07.0

That's interesting.

1:08.0

Yeah.

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