Strange Songs Arriving in your Head?

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today i was hanging out, making a salad or some shit, and a song started running through my head. it wasn't incessant but i kept thinking about it because while it was eminently familiar i had no idea what it was. perhaps 15 minutes to half an hour later i realised it was Uncle Kracker's Follow Me from the year 2000.
i don't listen to mainstream radio. i didn't watch music television in 2000. i would have heard snippets of it elsewhere but the only memory i have of this song is walking past Sounds in Manners Mall in Wellington one time!
where did it come from and does this happen to other people?

perhaps i should mention that this happens to me with words i don't know the meaning of all the time. sometimes they're not even words. one time 'reponse' just turned up and plagued me for about a week.

― Andrew Harrison (andrewtothemax), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

I have this with songs that don't exist.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

No, Mark, songs that HAVEN'T BEEN WRITTEN YET. Pick up that guitar and get strumming!

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

yes i get that too. and then i mean to write them down but forget and then berate myself for a day and it happens again. songs that just crop up in my head tend to be a lot better than songs that turn up when i make myself write.

maybe i should think of these words that turn up as words that HAVEN'T BEEN WRITTEN YET. what could "reponse" mean? in my mind it seems to want to be related to espouse and repose (not that they're related). although if you espouse the right things it could perhaps provide you with repose... no?

reponse could be the sort of dignity you attain by espousing the "right" things. like... bossy?

― Andrew Harrison (andrewtothemax), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

The word 'ponce' is springing avidly to mind... ;-)

― Scourage (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

shit, sorry. i thought the deal was that we posed questions and discussed. my bad.

― Andrew Harrison (andrewtothemax), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

mate, just kidding! try saying 'reponse' aloud to yourself again...

― Louis Jagger (Haberdager), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

interestingly, you may gather reponse by dissing it... it just depends what pitchfork says about it.

― Andrew Harrison (andrewtothemax), Wednesday, 16 August 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i had a suzanne vega song pop into my head today, completely sporadically and unprovoked. you know that one that goes do do do do do do do do

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Thursday, 17 August 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

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