Samuel D. Pennington is 17, a senior. He enjoys being indoors and likes every kind of music except country.

So you’re walking down the lovely halls of LCHS, and all of a sudden your favorite song comes on Pandora. You might not mind this, but, the song never leaves you’re head. No matter what the song is, where you are, whoever you are with, you can’t get rid of it.

How in the world did it get stuck in there? What makes it stay? Well many scientist believe it’s something called an earworm or “Ohrwurms”, as called by the Germans. Don’t worry they are not real worms, there’s nothing is crawling in your ear at night just messing with you. It is believed that if you hear a song and you associate it with something, anytime you’re reminded of said thing, it plays in your head. But the part of the brain that does that, or the Audio Cortex really only shows activity when you hear something. (Watson)

It could be that you find comfort in that song, or it could be that you feel at ease when you hear that song. I know when a song gets stuck in my head it is mainly the chorus that gets stuck, the rest gets lost in the oblivion that is my mind. “When I take time to think of a song, I can normally relate it to an event in my life that takes me back. A happy moment or even a time that scared me, no matter what it is I can hear the song to remind me of what happened,” said Kiri Guyer. Dolton Mosley says that the “Narwhal” song has been stuck in his head as of late.

Most songs that are catchy, the ones that reach out and grab us, are not always ones that get stuck in our heads. Almost every one reading this has had Disney’s Frozen, “Let It Go” stuck in their head at one point. Either that or you know someone who has. That song reached the top of the charts not only in top hits, but in revenue. That song is super popular. I have heard students reference that song more times than I can count.

To be fair, there are some not so popular songs that get stuck in my head. Not because my music is too loud, but because the song stuck with me. It rattled my core, shook my bones, and echoed in my head. Not all songs do that, not all songs can do that. You will never see a person moved by Nicki Minja “Anaconda”, or at least to the point where they are not shaking their rump.

Songs get stuck in our heads for many reasons, however, we do not know them all. A student once told me, “I hate getting songs stuck in my head.” The fact is, the song stuck with you for some reason, it had an effect on you just as a memory does.

So songs affect us, just as much as a memory. Whether it be Earworms or just the voices in your head. The song is stuck there, so you just have to deal in whatever way you can. Just remember, no one wants to hear you sing.

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