I had that Muppets tune in my head for over 3 months a few years ago. Brutal.
I ended up making a glitchy crunk remix of it and played it at gigs. Everyone loved it, but I wonder how many poor souls then had it stuck in their heads for months after…
Same thing happened with Shirley Ellis, The Clapping song…
I say a good cure is to remix the track, by the time you’ve finished the remix, you’ll have heard it so many times, your brain will never want to repeat it…
One of my strategies when I hear one that I really hate come up is to instantly mutate it in some kind of alienesque drone chant. Extreme down pitching woks well for that 
When reflecting on these things I like to think about Richard Dawkins’ conception of the meme as an evolutionary cultural entity living in human minds. Replicating, mutating. Successful ones spreading out and unsuccessful ones dying out. Battling out a survival of the fittest with our neural networks as hunting grounds.
i treat earworms as symbionts.
they can improve our abilities to write hooks.
Oliver Sacks wrote a chapter on earworms in the excellent Musicophilia, you can get the gist from this article: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/anatomy-of-an-earworm
Edit: This just popped into my head 
I believe this. Which is why i let them crawl around.
It’s so weird, I had the same song (can’t get you out of my head) stuck in my head since this morning and I come to this forum see this post… 
Yes great book 
In similar direction but with a broader (scientific) perspective on the mechanisms of the mind and consciousness is Daniel Dennett. He has several great books on the subject but the latest From Bacteria to Bach and Back is an awesome synthesis of everything he has done on the subject. I highly recommend it: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/02/from-bacteria-to-bach-and-back-by-daniel-c-dennett-review
One of many observations that struck a note with me: the neurons in the huge net of our brains can be viewed as similar to unicellular organisms floating in their habitats, both “trying” to survive by feeding. The unicell microorganism by absorbing nutrients, the neuron by absorbing electrical current, which happens when its neural path is activated. So for survival, neurons “strive” to have the brain using their path, competing with other neural paths.
Perhaps by looping that one pop song phrase over and over?
Of course neurons and microorganisms can’t try, or strive or want something consciously, but Dennett explains how organisms can display complex behavior grown by evolution without having any (self)understanding, which he calls ‘competence without comprehension’. All this is a great eye opener for anyone who thinks they have full rational control over their brains and bodies. Dennett sees consciousness as an illusionary by-product of the hyper-complex web of automatic processes driving us.
Nice one, this book looks right up my alley.
There are no coincidences my friend
One for anyone who’s been watching Russian Doll:
Smashed season 2 of Barry this week and once again, was left with this burrowed in my grey matter
This one is stuck in my head today.
Should not have clicked this lol.
If you ignore the lyrics the songwriting is really good. If you’re that strong of a person. To be able to ignore the lyrics.
What’s this guy doing at Katy Perry’s culmination scene beach party? I think he was delivering the coffee and they were like “how’d you like to make 40 dollars?”
Thanks for this, @shigginpit
Come, my Shiggy
Come come, my Shiggy
You’re my butterfly
My Shiggy…baby
GFY and your effing earworms.
Seriously though, love you brother 
Fuck your Honda Civic…
I’ve had this song stuck in my head since I woke up this morning, specifically the part starting at 2:12 where he says “space disk! is totally canceled. Space swords!” etc.
Like so much Lonely Island stuff, the whole song is way more of a banger than it needs to be for the joke. I’ve been listening to a ton of them recently, their podcast with Seth Meyers has been such a loaf of joy in a hard world for the last year or two. Quaid army 
