Songs in your head
My Mr thinks that I am a weirdo because songs pop into my head all the time.
At the moment I have a song by All About Eve that has appeared for no reason - it's the one that goes "I am an ocean wave/I am a galley slave".
It can be totally random or it can be a strange form of word association where odd words will put things into my mind that just runs around until replaced by something else.
Outright suggestions are less successful - he's tried it with Goombay Dance band and Renee and Renato, both of which failed to take hold, thankfully.
And sometimes a song will repeatedly surge to the fore and then fade to the background over a period of time - I spent a lot of time accompanied by the theme tune to The Fall Guy, it would come and go for days on end.
So, does this happen to you? And what's in your head at the moment?
BTW, I believe that the germans call these 'ohrwurms' (earworms)!
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All the time.
In fact, now that you've mentioned it, I've now got "Martha's Harbour" in my head which has at least rescued me from "Rule The World" by Take That which has been there all morning. It's usually something that was in the car on the way to work or which I heard at lunchtime - I've been known to hastily leave the HMV shop when something particularly dire comes on.
oddly
You wrote Rule The World by Take That, and into my head came Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears... specifically the brass section middle eight on the 12"
An Unlikely Pair
My current earworms (great word!) are the theme song of Archie the Inventor from Balamory and "Dazed and Confused". Strange bedfellows, for sure...
Wimpy ones
I wouldn't mind 'Dazed and Confused', and could explain Balamory by time spent with my grandchildren, but instead of Neil Young grunge or Bruce Springsteen bravado I tend to find myself with Clifford T Ward or solo Jimmy Webb. What can this mean?
Aha! Jukebox-ed
We used to play this as a game at my previous place of employment.
You'd sing or whistle a tune first thing in the morning, and if anyone was found unconsciously singing, humming or whistling it later, they'd have to go out on a tea run for everyone.
Research has shown that, in that setting at least, "Build Me Up Buttercup" is the earworm equivalent of Ebola - extremely virulent, highly contagious and very difficult to shake.