Why That One Song is Always Stuck in Your Head

Find yourself repeatedly singing a song while in the shower or walking down the street, no matter how hard you try to forget it? That would be an earworm, a phenomena that a majority of people regularly experience. Rachel Feltman, host of the Scientific American podcast, Science Quickly, discusses the research of earworms, and listeners share the songs that are perennially stuck in their heads. Stock image by Nuthawut Somsuk/iStock via Getty Creative Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.