Have you ever been infected by an earworm?! Does it prevent brooding & help change your mood?!?

What song have you not been able to ';shake off'; ?!



Toronto, May 27 (IANS) Some 98 to 99 percent of the population has, at some point, been 'infected' with a song they just can't seem to shake off. Researchers in Canada have sought to examine the phenomenon.



In most cases, earworms (songs, jingles, and tunes that get stuck inside your head) disappear after a few minutes.



In some cases, earworms can last hours or even days. McNally-Gagnon is also a musician, who is often infected, which is why she wanted to better understand how and why it occurs.For starters, she asked French-speaking internet users to rank 100 pop songs according to their ability to be compulsively repeated within one's mind.



The top five were: 'Singing in the Rain' (Gene Kelly), 'Live Is Life' (Opus), 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' (Bobby McFerrin), 'I Will Survive' (Gloria Gaynor) and, in first place, 'Ca fait rire les oiseaux' by Caribbean sensation La Compagnie Creole.

The phenomenon occurs when subjects are usually in a positive emotional state and keeping busy with non-intellectual activities such as walking, which requires little concentration.



'Perhaps the phenomenon occurs to prevent brooding or to change moods,' says Hebert.



http://in.news.yahoo.com/43/20100527/860Have you ever been infected by an earworm?! Does it prevent brooding %26amp; help change your mood?!?
I mostly get medleys of misremembered bits of kids programme theme tunes...Have you ever been infected by an earworm?! Does it prevent brooding %26amp; help change your mood?!?
I remember once when I was a child I was ill and I had Jean Michel Jarre's Oxygene part 4 stuck in my head. I couldn't sleep and had it going round and round in my head.

Ever since then I have hated the tune because I associate it with illness.
Haha, that happens with me an awful lot!

And it's often some random song from years back, and i find myself thinking why on earth is it this particular song as i haven't heard it anywhere lately!



I think the theory that it occurs to prevent brooding or to change moods could well be true in my case, as i do tend to brood over things an awful lot. Maybe that's why it happens to me so much!!
How come Trumpton Riots ain't in the Top 5



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCYOQOn-N



*dances manically*
My Heart Will Go On - Celine Dion. That was the other day.
How Do You Like Your Eggs In The Morning? I hear it every friday on Chris Evan's radio show and can't get it out of my head all week.