This week’s Dress Circle (6/8 7:00 p.m.) is a return to one of our favorite topics, “Involuntary Musical Imagery” otherwise known as stuck song syndrome, sticky music, and cognitive itch, or, as the Germans call them, orhwurm. Of course, their earworms. Those pesky songs that you love to hate. You hear them, and they stay with you for a very long time afterwards.
We’ve put together some of our favorites (and most persistent) earworms for an hour og fun music that will no doubt stay with you for, at least, the rest of the night.
Our favorites come from some well-known shows and films such as “Wicked,” “Frozen,” “The Book of Mormon,” and “An American Tale,” to lesser-known scores for “How to Eat Fried Worms,” “Inside U.S.A.,” “Pardon My English,” and “Hard Times.”
Some of the songs we know will be sticking with you after this program are "Popular," "Hello," "So-Long, and Thanks for All the Fish," and “The Hamster Dance” just to name a few. Whether you call them earworms, brainworms, sticky music, or even stuck song syndrome, earworms can be devilishly fun tortures that will stay with you for months.
Oh, and if any of them truly get stuck, try chewing gum; it’s supposed to get rid of them.
…But why would you ever want to?
