{"id":7931,"date":"2016-11-05T20:44:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T03:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7931"},"modified":"2016-11-12T15:32:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T22:32:20","slug":"earworms-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/11\/05\/earworms-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Earworms Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/04\/science\/earworms-lady-gaga-bad-romance.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\">What Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Bad Romance\u2019 and Other Earworm Songs Have in Common<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0\u00a0<span class=\"byline-author \" data-byline-name=\"Joanna Klein\">JOANNA KLEIN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qrO4YZeyl0I\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"106\" data-total-count=\"106\">You should stop reading this now. No really, just don\u2019t. You\u2019re still reading. O.K., you asked for it:<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"61\" data-total-count=\"167\">\u201c<em>Rah rah ah-ah-ah!\/ Ro mah ro-mah-mah!\/ Gaga ooh-la-la!\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"380\" data-total-count=\"547\">There\u2019s your \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Romance<\/a>.\u201d Like the \u201cugly\u201d \u201cdisease\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/l\/lady_gaga\/index.html?8qa\" target=\"_blank\">Lady Gaga<\/a>\u00a0sings about wanting in this song, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/16\/science\/16qna.html\" target=\"_blank\">earworm<\/a>\u00a0has likely just lodged itself deep inside the auditory cortex of your brain. There it will sit, sucking up your precious brain energy, for the next hour, day, month or even a whole year. ( I had Hall and Oates\u2019 \u201cManeater\u201d in my head for most of 2005.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"18\" data-total-count=\"565\">You are not alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"646\" data-total-count=\"1211\">\u201cThat\u2019s all I can really think about right now,\u201d said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dur.ac.uk\/music\/staff\/profile\/?id=15013\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Jakubowski<\/a>, a music psychologist at Durham University in Britain, about \u201cBad Romance.\u201d In a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/pubs\/journals\/releases\/aca-aca0000090.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a>\u00a0published Thursday in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts, she and her colleagues compiled lists of earworms from around 3,000 participants to see why some pop songs wiggle their way into people\u2019s heads and stay there. The Lady Gaga hit, which is always at the top of people\u2019s lists, has been developing its own toxic relationship inside the mind of Dr. Jakubowski, who hasn\u2019t heard it in months: \u201cIt\u2019s been persisting for two days straight,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"646\" data-total-count=\"1211\">[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/04\/science\/earworms-lady-gaga-bad-romance.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times What Lady Gaga\u2019s \u2018Bad Romance\u2019 and Other Earworm Songs Have in Common By\u00a0\u00a0JOANNA KLEIN You should stop reading this now. No really, just don\u2019t. You\u2019re still reading. O.K., you asked for it: \u201cRah rah ah-ah-ah!\/ Ro mah ro-mah-mah!\/ Gaga ooh-la-la!\u201d\u00a0 There\u2019s your \u201cBad Romance.\u201d Like the \u201cugly\u201d \u201cdisease\u201d\u00a0Lady Gaga\u00a0sings about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}