Hey Hey You You... Oh No...
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You know how painful it is when terrible, but addictively catchy, songs reverberate in your head incessantly, in repeat mode, not giving you peace or focus?
I put the blame on Avril Lavigne's decision to give The Music Industry (TMI) a run for its money - and its life. Her album, though seen by most of us as a change from 'That Rough and Tough Girl' to 'Tween Rocker' and a Hilary Duff with a dash of salt, is seen as me as a shoutout to the people who run TMI and those who gravitate to TMI. She's still the same old Avril Lavigne, who decided to throw us off with pink.
What really threw me off, as you could see, was her single.
It was so catchy, that it had to be performed at our graduation concert. I was mortified.
It got implanted in my head, and it's still ringing.
To get rid of this soon-to-be-health-scare, I listened to a roundhouse of 'catchy' songs to clear my head.
The Ham(p)ster Dance. Yes, that.
Holiday by Green Day. It's catchy, or at least the catchphrase is.
Black Betty by SpiderBait.
True Colours, by whoever-the-real-artist-is. Really, this song has been 'covered' and replayed to death. It's almost hate-able, but Phil Colins saved it.
Rock This Party.
Canon in D. Yes, Pachelbel's Canon in D.
But what really got that annoying song out of my head?
'Poisoning Pigeons in the Park', by musical and limerick-al Tom Lehrer. Google that, and find an AOL page with the lyrics and melody in MIDI. Sing along.
It's way more lovely (and funny) than 'Girlfriend'. I wouldn't mind singing that song over and over again.
But, the awful fact stares at us in the face: The song with the catchiest catchline automatically catches the captured audience.
'All the world seems in tune, on a spring afternoon, when we're...'
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