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Has Science Figured Out How To Get A Song Unstuck From Your Head?

Author Dave & Chuck the Freak and Cort Freeman
Has Science Figured Out How To Get A Song Unstuck From Your Head? (Photo Illustration by Ian Waldie/Getty Images)

Has science figured out how to get a song unstuck from your head? That’s what it sound like. Finally, we’re free!

Chances are you’ve gone through this at some point. You’re carrying on with your day and then you get a jingle or some song stuck in your head. Then it stays there all day. You can’t shake it. You end up spending the rest of the day singing that jingle you heard on TV or that annoying song your kid played on your way to the school drop-off. It happens all the time and very rarely is it a song that you want stuck in your head. Well, now there might be a way to get that song unstuck from your head and it’s all thanks to science!

How To Get A Song Unstuck From Your Head According To Science

According to NPR, there’s an audio track called the Earworm Eraser which can allegedly get a song unstuck from your head! It constantly changes tempos, time signatures, and musical styles, so it won’t also get stuck in your head. It’s different but it might work? You can check out a video on the subject shared by Atlassian on YouTube below.

The Earworm Eraser was created by music psychologist Dr. Kelly Jakubowski along with audio engineers and it’s a scientifically-engineered track designed to get rid of earworms for good. Go ahead! Give it a shot. Did it work for you?

Now that the holidays are upon us it’s more important than ever to be able to get that song unstuck from your head. You don’t want to be walking around the office singing The Little Drummer Boy like you’re Dwight Schrute. That’s a quick way to annoy your co-workers and yourself! You also don’t want that Mariah Carey song stuck in your head all day. This might be the way to solve your problems!

We should consider having Dave listen to this daily so we don’t have to hear his jingles or whatever else might have popped into his head on a given day. NPR says around 90% of people report having this problem of having an unwanted song stuck in their head once a week and this could be the way to prevent it and get rid of it once and for all! Dr. Jakubowski says that a good way to block out earworms is to listen to something else! This might be the perfect go-to for getting that song unstuck from your head. What do you think?

Cort Freeman was born and raised in Metro Detroit. He was named Clarkston High School 2009 Class Clown 13 years after graduating. Totally normal thing to happen. That’s thanks to his time spent as an Intern at Comedy Central and Social Media Correspondent for The Colbert Report. Cort has done comedy across the country, both standing up and sitting down. When he’s not trying to make you laugh on-air and online, he’s probably at home enjoying his favorite shows like Seinfeld, South Park, and The Office. He’s also totally uncomfortable writing about himself in the third person. Cort enjoys writing about comedy, food, sports, and entertainment. So, basically anything and everything.

"Die Hard" And 5 Other Debatable Christmas Movies

‘Tis the season for Christmas movies, but what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie?” Does it have to take place on Christmas? Must Christmas be the primary theme? Is Die Hard a Christmas movie?

It’s a question that seems to be as old as the holiday itself. Everyone has an opinion, and we could be closer to an answer than ever before.

In determining what makes a Christmas movie a “Christmas movie,” Yahoo! UK came up with a two-question litmus test. To try to determine if a movie is indeed a Christmas movie, they say you have to first ask “does watching the film at any other time of year feel weird? If no, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”

Then, they suggest you ask, “if you take Christmas out of the movie, does it still make sense? If yes, then it’s not a Christmas movie.”

Die Hard & Other Debatable Christmas Movies

I think those are fair criteria. It’s not a Christmas movie if you can watch it during the summer and have no issue. If it has the same feel in August as it does on Christmas, it shouldn’t be a Christmas movie.

Likewise, I feel like Christmas has to be the primary theme of the movie. If you can remove Christmas from the plot and it still makes sense it shouldn’t be considered a Christmas movie.

So, given these characteristics I feel like Die Hard would not be considered a Christmas movie. Despite the movie taking place on Christmas, you can watch the movie all year long. It doesn’t have to be exclusively tied to Christmas. To me, it doesn’t pass the litmus test.

In a new poll, 26% of people said that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. 50% of people surveyed said it is not. Then, 23% say they “aren’t sure.”

Die Hard isn’t the only movie that we question if it’s a Christmas movie or not. Some of the best movies of all-time could fall into this vague area. Here are five other movies that are debatable Christmas movies, just like Die Hard.

  • Mean Girls

    You can’t think about Mean Girls without thinking of the Jingle Bell Rock performance. They’re all in their Santa outfits. However, Christmas isn’t a big enough theme in the movie.

  • Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

    Harry Potter works great year round. It’s a Christmas movie, it’s a Halloween movie, due to all the feasts it’s even a Thanksgiving movie. However, because of all these factors I don’t think it’s really a Christmas movie. Still great, though.

  • Catch Me If You Can

    A lot of the movie happens on Christmas Eve. It’s a big part of the movie. However, no way can we consider it a Christmas movie.

  • Gremlins

    It was originally marketed as a Christmas movie for kids. However, because it’s so different from the others it’s hard to call it a Christmas movie. Does it pass the test in your opinion?

  • Batman Returns

    Pretty much the entire movie takes place during the Christmas season. It’s tied very closely to Christmas. It could actually be a Christmas movie, if you think about it.

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