Ray D'Arcy
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And over 90% of people experience earworms.
70% say they're fine with it.
I'd be in that 70%.
And 20% say they're not that fine with it.
So if you're not so fine with it, how do you get rid of it?
Well, there are a number of suggested anecdotal treatments for an earworm.
You could listen to the whole song.
Seemly that works sometimes.
You could try and replace it with a different song, but that's probably useless because then you're going to replace one earworm with another earworm.
Not good.
The other thing that they suggest is that you do something that involves an awful lot of concentration.
So it literally takes your mind off
The earworm.
Fascinating stuff.
Fascinating stuff.
There are a number of songs that keep coming up when they ask people about earworms.
I was surprised to see that some of my favourite earworms are in there.
This is one I used to do all the time.
Don't know why.
Maybe it was the bitty, bitty, bitty, bitty bum.