I Have Earworms

It’s not as bad as you think

Photo by Simon Noh on Unsplash

I was listening to Mayim Bialik’s YouTube channel/podcast when she answered a listener’s question about earworms. No, not the wiggly kind that robins love.

More than 100 years ago, Germans coined the term öhrwurm — earworm — to describe the experience of a song stuck in the brain. Scientists call it other names, like “stuck tune syndrome” and “musical imagery…