Peter and I went to see Hairspray at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Friday. Loads of fun! Excellent cast, wonderful costumes and sets, and oh yeah, the best earworm music I’ve encountered since I saw South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Marc Shaiman, not coincidently, wrote the music for both). Earworm is a direct translation from the German “ohrwurm” (pronounced oar-verm), and is a very descriptive name for a catchy tune that bores into your consciousness and won’t get out, no matter what you do. With me, earworms tend to be pieces I like (at least initially)… though now that I think of it, Jon did have a Sound of Music phase a while back that affected us (or should that be infected us?) worm-wise.
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Reid says:
June 17, 2004 at 12:04 pm (UTC 0)
“The Cat Came Back.. the very next dayyyy…”
Peter Cook says:
June 18, 2004 at 11:57 am (UTC 0)
The Marineland song (for those who have lived in Southern Ontario for any part of the past 25 years) is pretty much a universal acid on ohrwurms–and brain tissue too. Augh!
Reid says:
June 25, 2004 at 2:34 pm (UTC 0)
I always feel a slight pang of guilt over Marineland. Back in the day, my Dad took me to the site where it was being constructed and told me about the roller coaster ride he was helping to design. At that point everything was giant pits of mud. I don’t know if he actually “got the contract” to work on it, but that created a slight association between Marineland and my Dad in my mind. So hearing that song makes me *wince* a little bit every time..
Legion of Genius » Blog Archive » Turkey Song says:
March 24, 2006 at 11:13 pm (UTC 0)
[…] My turn! “The Turkey Song” is a Flash animation of a little ditty, in all its earwormic (definition here) glory, sung by Jon last year. I finally just got around to producing this (remembering halfway through how much of a slog animation is.) […]