The Embarassing Earworms Thread

[Tergon]

Simple rules. You've got a song playing in your head and no matter what you do you cannot get that little bastard out, blaring on constant replay. But this is no classic rock song that you want to sing along to - it's a song that under no circumstances do you want anyone to hear you singing under your breath due to it being wildly inappropriate and/or embarassing.

I'm starting this thread in honour of the fact that as a 25-year-old male I've been forced to walk around with this bastard of a song bouncing around my skull for the last three days now:
C'est La Vie - B*Witched (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvjLgjtJKsc)
I will admit that the damn thing is catchy as hell. I am also aware that if my girlfriend, family, or friends hear me singing it, I will be mocked relentlessly for it.

Who else feels my pain and is willing to admit to the embarassing catchy tune they cannot get rid of?

[Ravens_cry]

The appropriately named, "Can't Get You Out of my Head' by Kylie Minogue.
I had that thing in my head for months.:smallyuk:

[Nomrom]

My girlfriend's ringtone over Christmas was "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." I still get that song stuck in my head for days if I even so much as see a hippo.

[Traab]

Jennys got a gun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQn2ADZE1A&ob=av3e) That stupid chorus wont leave me the hell alone!

[Brother Oni]

Gee Gee Gee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7mPqycQ0tQ).

I don't speak a word of Korean, thus am singing along to the song phonetically.

My wife already groans whenever she hears me humming along (both my children like it though).

[Avilan the Grey]

The appropriately named, "Can't Get You Out of my Head' by Kylie Minogue.
I had that thing in my head for months.:smallyuk:

This.

Also, of course mmmBop, Macarena, Don't Worry Be Happy, Never Gonna Give You Up... And many many more.

[TheTick]

I realize this may not be the forum for this to be 'embarassing', but the MLP:fim theme song.

[Goosefeather]

Perhaps this website (http://unhearit.com/) may be of help? :smalltongue:

[Kairaven]

Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?

[Avilan the Grey]

Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?

I am 40. I don't know what "new" is.:smallbiggrin:

[Lateral]

Anything that my alarm clock plays to wake me up in the morning. Anything. :smallsigh:

Also, the Captain Planet theme song.

[sana]

I can't get rid of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDyZ_fXKcZs

[Ravens_cry]

This.

Also, of course mmmBop, Macarena, Don't Worry Be Happy, Never Gonna Give You Up... And many many more.
Depending on the song, I actually don't mind it much.
As I like to put it, it's like a wetware iPod.
Minogue's musical massacer o nthe other hand . . .

[Avilan the Grey]

Oh how about "No Limit"?

Also, Christmas Songs. Jingle Bells pops into my head twice a week. All year around.

[Brother Oni]

I can't get rid of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDyZ_fXKcZs

It's an operatic song, with male and female parts.

This particular version is a karaoke track (the title of the song flashed up at the beginning) and it's just a video of random people dancing to give something as backing for the singalong subtitles.

[sana]

It's an operatic song, with male and female parts.

This particular version is a karaoke track (the title of the song flashed up at the beginning) and it's just a video of random people dancing to give something as backing for the singalong subtitles.

Oh Thanks, it's all starting to make sense now.
I spent 2 weeks trying to find out what it was and why those same people appeared in 4 other songs using the same forest background.

[Brother Oni]

I spent 2 weeks trying to find out what it was and why those same people appeared in 4 other songs using the same forest background.

Welcome to cheap mainland karaoke video companies. :smallbiggrin:

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

My girlfriend's ringtone over Christmas was "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas." I still get that song stuck in my head for days if I even so much as see a hippo.

I had a friend who sung this, in the most unimaginably cute way. It was adorable. Much better than the actual song.

For me, it's any Lana del Rey song. Once I hear the song, it'll be stuck in my head for the rest of the day, at LEAST.
But I don't mind because I actually love those songs, so it's not really embarrassing for me.

[Robert Blackletter]

Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?

I kinda like it,

now this song is just terrible but I keep find myself singing it after it was on the radio about two mouths ago. Wouldn't be to bad accept i tend to sing while working.....

[Lord Seth]

Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?While that probably is the most catchy song currently charting, I don't see anything particularly embarrassing about it.

[Fjolnir]

As a person who occasionally is a party dj as a side gig, I end up with all sorts of songs that are annoying stuck in my head after any given gig, currently floating around there is Pink Cadillac, performed by Natalie Cole from a Mary Kay women's business networking thing...

[polity4life]

About once every fiscal quarter I make my internet pilgrimage back to this remix done by Panda Boy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVtW1ZzxH4). I confessed to my fiancee that I listen to this and I'll be damned if she wasn't fidgeting with her ring while we played it. Of course, I was jamming out. She provided the perplexed stare.

[Mauve Shirt]

We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.

[Grif]

I'm Han Solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A).

I do not take responsibility for any shattered childhoods. :smalltongue:

[Emmerask]

I'm Han Solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A).

I do not take responsibility for any shattered childhoods. :smalltongue:

My soul is now completely crushed, thanks :_(

[Giggling Ghast]

When advertisements for Dance Central were in heavy rotation on TV, I could not get "Evacuate the Dance Floor" out of my head.

STOP, THIS BEAT IS KILLING ME

[Zevox]

Get it out of my head Charles! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UrpQTI6HTo)
(Seriously, that damn commercial played something like three times during Korra last week, and it's cropped up in my head whenever I've been bored at work since. It's awful.)
Zevox

[Radar]

Well, I mostly shield myself from radio or TV pop music, so most of my earworms aren't that embarassing, if a bit unusual (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmCnQDUSO4I). Still, there was this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fvz-nNz0mc) (even this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpnaLJ-jn1k) would be easier to admit). This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42cRLsZ4Qmw) might be difficult to explain properly, but at least wouldn't make me feel bad about my taste in music.

I'm Han Solo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg_FoEy8T_A).

I do not take responsibility for any shattered childhoods. :smalltongue:
:smalleek: Does... not... compute...

[Giggling Ghast]

If you guys think I'm Han Solo is bad, you need to watch It's Great to Be In the Empire Today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42pEVwYM34). Who knew facism could be so fun?

[Ravens_cry]

We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.
That's one I don't mind uploaded to my wetware iPod. Another example being Tubthumping.

[super dark33]

lol limewire. (http://cristgaming.com/pirate.swf)

Yarr harr.....

[thorgrim29]

Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?

I have made my peace with that song since I watched the lipdub by the Miami Dolphin's cheerleaders.... I have no idea what sport they play, but I'm a fan.

[Radar]

If you guys think I'm Han Solo is bad, you need to watch It's Great to Be In the Empire Today (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42pEVwYM34). Who knew facism could be so fun?
These guys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K08akOt2kuo) certainly! :smalltongue:

Either the initial shock has faded, or this is not nearly as bad as the Han Solo thing - it's at least campy and coherent enough to count as a parody or something. Still, it looks like the producers just spun the wheel of random game genres on this project.

[Mauve Shirt]

I only get songs in my head that I know the words to. Solution, only learn the words of songs you don't mind hearing for an entire day!
Fell in the door, and you fell on the floor, with your hand on the knob, looking up and abruptly forget what your thinking, fire alarms go off in your head, you live in the nightgown of the sullen moon.

[thompur]

Not at all embarassing, but it's crying out for some kind of release so...ENJOY! (http://youtu.be/13FrLGB_oK8)

[Aotrs Commander]

One of my personal bugbears is from My Little Pony. 1984 My Little Pony. Specifically the frag-damned Sea Pony song, which makes periodic reappearences to haunt my psyche after over twenty freaking years.

[Siosilvar]

No matter how much rock, metal, and disco I play, I can't get Party Rock Anthem out of my head. Even my old earworms (Don't You Want Me, Beds Are Burning, and so forth) can't replace it. It's really starting to grate on me, since I don't even like it that much.

[Kindablue]

http://www.papermag.com/uploaded_images/Don-t-call-me-Maybe.jpg

[WoodStock_PV]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg

[JaaSwb]

I only get songs in my head that I know the words to.

The same applies to me. Unfortunately, it applies to pretty much every song I learn the words to. After translating and analyzing a number of political songs for a school project, I had some of them coming up regularly for several years, chiefly this little gem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFPOavan6o&t=0m40s). I still catch myself humming it occasionally, only realizing halfway it's a Hitlerjugend song. Talk about embarrassing. :smalleek:

[Brother Oni]

The same applies to me. Unfortunately, it applies to pretty much every song I learn the words to. After translating and analyzing a number of political songs for a school project, I had some of them coming up regularly for several years, chiefly this little gem (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZFPOavan6o&t=0m40s). I still catch myself humming it occasionally, only realizing halfway it's a Hitlerjugend song. Talk about embarrassing. :smalleek:

Especially after last night's football result. :smalltongue:

[Tergon]

Walked past a store called "Chameleon." Have had Karma Chameleon playing in my head nonstop for the 24 hours since. Honestly, singing this song itself is less embarassing than the fact that I have been spotted by my (highly amused) girlfriend doing a little hip-wiggly dance while singing it as I cooked dinner. I was not aware I was doing it until she pointed it out to me.

Excuse me, I'll be over here hitting my head against a rock out of shame.

[Ravens_cry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg
How is that embarrassing? That's an awesome song!:smallbiggrin:

[WoodStock_PV]

How is that embarrassing? That's an awesome song!:smallbiggrin:

Though it is an awesome song and the devil totally won the match I'm still a little embarrassed to like a country song. For some unknown reason I keep singing the first lines of the song over and over and over.

[bue52]

Persona 4 the Animation's opening. Key Plus Word (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJda_uVM7rc&feature=related). Horrible Engrish but somehow I can't get the song out of my head.

[Anarion]

I had BBBFF (http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VbyYcljx8) playing on loop when opening this thread, but it's a pony song and I'm not embarrassed about it.

I have found myself whistling Avast Your Ass (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIg8Vs-MVZA) a few times without realizing it though. :smallredface: (Link is to the pony one because I think that song is way better on strings than the original ever was.)



Isn't the latest earworm this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic)?


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDm_ZHyYTrg

I haven't gotten tired of the first one yet and the second one is a good song and you have no need to feel embarrassed.

[Velaryon]

The appropriately named, "Can't Get You Out of my Head' by Kylie Minogue.
I had that thing in my head for months.:smallyuk:

I used to have a problem with that one too. Thankfully it hasn't gotten in my head in awhile. No, not even right now. :smalltongue:


We can dance if we want to, we can leave your friends behind, 'cause your friends don't dance and if they don't dance, well, they're no friends of mine.

Hey, I like that song! It's certainly better than getting Everybody Have Fun Tonight (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4Lxa4EOiaE) stuck in your head like I do sometimes.

I'd say the most embarrassing earworm song I get lately is the Trololo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1orMXD_Ijbs) song. I've started humming it randomly while playing D&D sometimes, and I usually get dirty looks from everyone at the table. But hey, is it my fault the song is really catchy?

[pffh]

That damn UPS song that's been playing in the ads before some online videos (like the stuff at SFdebris). UPS doesn't even exist where I live and now I hum the damn tune at work because that's bloody logistics :smallfurious:

[Dr.Epic]

This. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqIngh_-_A) I won't say what it is because I want it to be a surprise.:smalltongue:

[jseah]

I usually find standard popular stuff to be not good, and most songs last a week at most.

Still, a recent one:
Aitakatta - AKB0048
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0UNE1SJUW8&feature=related
Warning, loud.

It seems like a pretty normal anime pop song until I found the AKB48 idol group video for Heavy Rotation. And then I'm like... *facepalm* need to stop listening to this.


There are worse ones, but they're not here because they're worse.

[TheLaughingMan]

;NA NAAAAA NANANANANANANANA KATAMARI DAMACYYYYYY~!

[Ravens_cry]

Though it is an awesome song and the devil totally won the match I'm still a little embarrassed to like a country song. For some unknown reason I keep singing the first lines of the song over and over and over.
The devil had accompaniment.
I'm not the biggest fan either. In fact, country is among the genre's I generally avoid.
But sometimes awesome is awesome, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.

[Tergon]

I've had this version of the Skyrim theme (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlCPOCwo3FY&feature=g-like) in my head for a couple of days now. It's not exactly embarassing in and of itself; it's an epic song! It's just that if I sing it and someone hears me, they ask what it is, and I'm forced to admit that it's the theme of a video game.
Also there's the fact that I'm singing gibberish because I honestly don't know a single damn word of that song besides "Dovahkiin." That's always awkward.

[The Extinguisher]

<.<
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Wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle wiggle yeah.



Someone help me.

[Dusk Eclipse]

Persona 4 the Animation's opening. Key Plus Word (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJda_uVM7rc&feature=related). Horrible Engrish but somehow I can't get the song out of my head.

Dude... that song is awesome, I would kill to have that song stuck in my head at the moment...I have had this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNaR-rxAic) stuck all the weekend and just because my little sister asked me to let it on the radio on saturday morning.

[Tergon]

Oh. My. God. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCtQmwJ1WAY&feature=related)

[Gnomish Wanderer]

Just this little ditty (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGMN-gNfdaY#t=00m016s), all day. Not really embarrassing except that I was caught humming it waiting for a job interview

[Asheram]

I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts... there there are a standing in a row.
Big ones, small ones, please throw one at me head.
This music do twist, it will not be missed. I'd rather now be dead.