Earworms Quotes

You have to put these hooks in it, you know? You've got to make sure you got all that ear candy in it to get it through the gate.

There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.

I'm a sucker for pop melodies, things you can't get out of your head.

By definition pop is extremely catchy, whether you like it or not.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Well, there are some things that I just can't get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they're of my own creation, as well - and they're just as annoying. It's not only other people's ear worms that bug me, it's my own, as well.

Some songs, you just can't shake; they keep creeping back into your set list.

Culture isn't all just about what can be tweaked and twitched in the simplest possible way. As people move around, they literally don't see what's around them, because they're wedded to earworms that are burrowing into their heads endlessly in a kind of negotiation with these tiny screens.

If they can't hum it after we play it, it's not for us.

I listen to a lot of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears - the songs just stick in your head and that's what I want to achieve with my music.