Listening to a catchy song is good; but listening to it many times, maybe you already have an earworm.
EARWORMS or “Last Song Syndrome” happens when you heard a catchy song and already stuck in your head. If you think that listening to a looped song is too annoying, how can you stop it?
What was the last song you’re listened to? For sure you start to hum to the melody or just pumping when the bass drops and you let those tracks on repeat. After a long period of time, you started to feel annoying with those tracks yet you don’t have an idea of when will it stop. For that scenario, then you already experiencing “last song syndrome”.
What makes a song catchy?
According to Dr. Kelly Jakubowski from the Department of Music at Durham University, a person can predict of which songs that are going to get stuck in someone’s heads based on the song’s melody and that could help aspiring song-writers or advertisers to write jingles everyone will remember for a long period of time.
Is it something to be worried about?
To answer this question, you must not worry about LSS. In fact, music helps generate feel-good hormones, increases work efficiency, as well as it has the ability to de-stress us once we enjoyed the last song stuck in your head.
How can I get rid of earworms?
Eurekalert! has a list on how to stop it. Here are the following:
- Engage with the song.
- Distract yourself by thinking of or listening to a different song.
- Let it be.
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