Earworms, those catchy snippets of music that loop in our minds, are a common experience for most people, especially music lovers. Factors like frequency of exposure and familiarity influence their ...

British researchers also found the earworms people experience reflect the reasons why those people listen to music. So if ...

Like a good cup of espresso, music is a sensory experience that can stick with you long after it’s gone. Music doesn’t even need to be played out loud. Perhaps even reading the word “espresso” put ...

Think about a song that’s gotten stuck in your head. Maybe it’s Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” the State Farm theme song, “Defying Gravity” from “Wicked,” or Taylor Swift’s new song “The Fate of ...

Earworms, also known as involuntary musical imagery, are brief snippets of music that repetitively play in our minds. They can be as short as 15 to 30 seconds and often feel like they loop without end ...

Your brain’s habit of replaying the same song on a loop is not a glitch so much as a side effect of how memory, reward and ...

Think about a song that’s gotten stuck in your head. Maybe it’s Vanilla Ice’s “Ice Ice Baby,” the State Farm theme song, or, if you’ve already listened to Taylor Swift’s new album “The Life of a ...

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Back in 1982, one song was so insanely catchy that it became an earworm that continues to deliver pure nostalgia 42 years ...

With a new Ghostbusters movie hitting theaters, here's a playlist of our favorite themes and standout soundtrack cuts from sci-fi, fantasy, and horror movies. Reading time 1 minute The eternal ...

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Everyone knows these three '00s pop songs for their choruses. Far fewer know the rest of the words. How much do you know of ...