Get Outta My Head!

Here's proof that listening to the radio at work can be very educational: I learned something new today. There is also a high possibility that I forgot I am a woman who can multitask while I was gaining this very helpful piece of quizshow knowledge, but that is beside the point. Here's what's important: When I'm in one of those huge payout quiz shows next time (which we all know will happen as soon as those TV people realize how very attractive I would be on TV) and the host asks,

"Well, Ellen R Ashard, would you please explain to us why instrumental pieces are less likely to be stuck in your head than any music with lyrics?"

I will look up to the heavens - pretending to thank a higher being for such an easy question (you wanna appeal to the conservative crowd, too, ya know! Who knows when I have to go through immigrations at an US-airport next time). Then I will calmly say,

"But of course, [insert host's first name here], the problem with lyrics is that your brain can visualize them. That means it'll try to repeat and complete a song you've just stopped listening to (in many a case by smashing the radio in tiny little pieces, because you just. could. not. take it. anymore!) The best solution often seems to be a rusty nail driven right into your brain. Instrumental pieces are less likely to be stuck in your head, because they obviously lack lyrics."

See how much you can learn just by listening to the radio? Aren't you glad I don't watch the Discovery Channel at work?

You fully deserve to ask out loud that question which has been bothering you once more: WTF is her point? There truly is one! I myself have suffered from my overactive brain's attempts to happily sing one and the same song for about 5 Million hours straight over the weekend: Winter Wonderland!

Now that you've read all this hoping for an actual point to this, you deserve a reward. Here's two reasons for me liking the place I come from: