The researchers asked 3,000 people to name their most frequent
earworm tunes and compared these to tunes that had never been named as earworms in the database but were a match in terms of popularity and how recently they had been in the United Kingdom music charts.
Not exact matches
The New York League of Conservation Voters is out with a new radio ad slamming its No. 1 Democratic primary target that features a catchy Calypso
tune with definite
earworm potential and the refrain: «Anyone is better than Bill Stachowski.»
Having a song,
tune, or commercial jingle stuck in one's head is a phenomenon known as having an
earworm.
He explained to me that when we get an
earworm, the
tune seems to repeat itself involuntarily, which is why experts consider
earworms involuntary musical imagery (INMI).
It takes classic Mushroom Kingdom
earworms (particular kudos to World 4 - 1's subtle use of the Super Mario Bros underground theme) as well as original
tunes, and remixes them so that they sound as though they're being parped out by a 1950s fairground ride.