DailyDirt: Catchy Music Breakdown

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It can be annoying when you can't get a song out of your head, but there are some strategies for doing so. Apparently, working on some puzzles can help by engaging your working memory and shutting out the "Shake It Off" lyrics. These earworms have a tendency to come back (and even invade our visual memes), but if you recognize that these songs are all constructed in a similar way, maybe you can fend them off. Here are just some examples.

• Maybe you've heard that joke "What do you get when you play country music backwards?" A bunch of country music songs are about the same topics, but they also sound a lot alike. [url]
• Before anyone posts this Youtube link in the comments, yes, there are a lot of pop songs that rely on just 4 chords. Axis of Awesome demonstrates this brilliantly. [url]
• Chilly Gonzales explains why Taylor Swift's songs are so catchy. Perhaps you need to take some Swiftamine to deal with these earworms. [url]

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Filed Under: axis of awesome, country music, earworms, memes, music, swiftamine, taylor swift