Inner music example type: Songs

The Song That Doesn’t End

Songs, TV Programmes

Performed by Shari Lewis, American ventriloquist and puppeteer, 1992.

Ohrwurm

Songs

‘Ohrwurm’ by Wise Guys. This song by a popular German a capella group is about having an earworm and trying to get rid of it.

Lego Movie 2

Cartoons and comics, Films, Songs

Music which is designed to be catchy and to brainwash the protagnists. The song lyrics are "This song's gonna get stuck inside your head"

10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories

Songs

In 2014, musician Emperor X wrote a deliberately catchy song titled 10,000-Year Earworm to Discourage Settlement Near Nuclear Waste Repositories (Don’t Change Color, Kitty) in reference to the “ray cat” idea in nuclear semiotics, attempting to embed a warning message in folklore that would still be remembered in 10,000 years’ time.