Why That One Song is Always Stuck in Your Head

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Find yourself repeatedly singing a song while in the shower or walking down the street, no matter how hard you try to forget it? That would be an earworm, a phenomena that a majority of people regularly experience. Rachel Feltman, host of the Scientific American podcast, Science Quickly, discusses the research of earworms, and listeners share the songs that are perennially stuck in their heads.

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