What Makes A Song Get Stuck In Your Head? Here’s What Research Shows
Melody may matter: In a study of British chart songs, frequently reported earworms tended to be faster, with a familiar overall shape and some less typical leaps between notes. Exposure helps: Chart success, recency and repeated listening give songs more chances to lodge in memory. In one experiment, though, the effect of repetition varied from chorus to chorus. Earworms are personal: A review of 47 studies found little overlap in which specific songs got stuck, unless researchers controlled what people heard. The evidence has limits: The main chart-song analysis was observational, covered only Western popular music and cannot show that any feature causes an earworm. ….[READ]
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