How does a song get stuck in your head?

Tai Asks Why

CBC

Kids & Family

4.2 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Whether it’s a doot doot doot of an opening riff or a random mix of words from the chorus, 99 per cent of people admit to getting songs stuck in their heads. So what is it about certain songs that make them so catchy? How does a song get stuck in your head? For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/tai-asks-why-transcripts-listen-1.6747759

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0:00.0	This is a CBC podcast.
0:04.0	Mm-hmm.
0:09.0	Okay guys, I have something I need to tell you.
0:12.0	There's a song that's creeped into my head and it's been there for like two weeks now and it's really starting to bug me.
0:29.4	Now I don't want to burden you with this infectious disease, but it rhymes with guess spatboe I'll just be doing my normal thing. I'll be walking to school
0:36.4	walking back from school having a shower and it comes on. I don't know why, but just whatever I do,
0:47.0	it'll just randomly appear,
0:49.0	despite the fact that I'm strongly against it.
0:52.0	I... I'm strongly against it. I know I'm not the only one that gets songs stuck in my head because, well, I hit up the
0:59.4	type of types online and I saw that 92% of people get songs stuck in their head at least once a week.
1:07.0	Facido, Facido.
1:10.0	Scientists are calling it involuntary musical imagery, but of course other people just call them earworms, you know, because they burrow in and they're just stuck there no matter how hard to try to get them out.
1:22.0	And thanks to this song in my head, Despatito, I've got a whole lot of questions
1:29.5	following. Like, why are some songs catchy you than others is this just a new thing that's facing to
1:36.4	society how do you get earworms and especially how do you get them out?
1:44.0	I'm tied.
1:45.0	I'm tied.
1:47.0	Tai asks why.
1:53.0	Why?
1:54.0	I'm Ty, this is my podcast.
1:56.0	Ty asks why.
1:57.0	There are just so many good questions out there that you really just want to get answered.
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