In e-mail correspondence with an overseas contact, whose native language is not English, he asked at one point "What is an 'earworm'?" Well, of course, I volunteered to provide an example! As a matter of fact, it's one I blogged about in 2015, when I first encountered it. (The comments at that earlier blog post are worth reading, too.)
At any rate, here's Austrian "DJ Ötzi" with his (in)famous "Burger Dance", which went gold in Germany and hit #1 on the charts there (why, I don't know!). His teenybopper audience appear to be singing right along, and getting into the spirit of the thing.
If that isn't the living definition of an earworm, I don't know what is! The song was written by the British group Fast Food Rockers, who called it simply the "Fast Food Song". Their official music video may be seen here. However, I prefer the Austrian version, for some weird reason. (Perhaps it's the "Rocky Horror Picture Show"-style pelvic thrusts from the dancers? I still can't figure out how they go with any of the restaurants named . . . at least, I've never seen diners there perform them!)
Peter
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ReplyDeleteMade it through about 30 seconds of the actual song. Oy Gewalt!
ReplyDeleteI shot the worms before they got to my ears.
ReplyDeleteThat was weird.
ReplyDeleteYup, it's stuck. Curse you!
ReplyDeleteI saw this last year. Blasted it over the loud hailer and also my employer's house VHF channel for New York Tug ops.
ReplyDeleteEarworm implanted.
That's not an earworm. This is an earworm!
ReplyDeleteThe Song That Doesn't End
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U2zJOryHKQ
That was painful to listen.
ReplyDeletethese two much better, imho:
walk of life
https://youtu.be/Sys9LCUo-AU
goody two-shoes
https://youtu.be/o41A91X5pns
Marching Germans with a P.A. system. Oh, wait, I have a memory itch.
ReplyDeleteI won't claim immunity, but I must have some resistance. Or maybe it's that I like it somewhat (why, no idea) so it's not bothersome.
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