Hello there and welcome to another edition of TBTL. This right here, right now, is the show that just might be too beautiful to live. My name is Luke Burbank. I am your host, joined as always by Jen Flash Andrews. Hello, Jennifer. Hi, Luke. It's been quite a week here in the Northwest. Amanda Knox returning home, all kinds of important news, none of which was discussed

during this week's TBTL. We focused on the important things like the catchiest song in the world

as identified by British scientists, although, as we will hear on this episode, we don't really

agree with the list. It's questionable. Yeah. If it were American scientists, I think we would have gotten a very different list.

And I have real questions about actually playing this conversation because we are playing

songs that are supposedly very catchy.

And there's nothing worse than when someone drops a little earworm into your head.

So I would just like to apologize in advance for what's going to happen during the next hour and also say, you're welcome.

So without further ado, let's get to this week's edition of TBTL.

A lot of you were upset over the weekend because we got I Am the cute one stuck in your head, the Olson Twins song.

But it turns out that that's not even the catchiest song of all time.

Well, according to scientists in where, Jen, New Zealand?

It's the Goldsmiths University, which I actually think is in London.

They sat down and decided to try to identify what they thought were the ten catchiest songs of all time.

And do you know what the methodology was for this? Well,

there's four criteria. And that was a long, long and detailed musical phrases, which I think

by that they mean verses. And then multiple pitch changes in the hook or the chorus, a male vocalist, and a higher male voice making noticeable vocal efforts.

So it has to be a strain on that chorus.

It has to be a man.

Because they said that they picked, they thought guys singing in songs was important because it was a subconscious war cry.

They said psychologically, we look to men to lead us into battle so it could be our intuitive nature to follow male-fronted songs.

Oh, interesting.

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