History The Earworm
posted by on February 1 at 15:58 PM
From Peter Shapiro’s book Turn The Beat Around: A Secret History Of Disco comes this perfect description of the Earworm. (A song you can’t get out of your head.)
Talking about Van McCoy’s “The Hustle”:
But thanks to that infernal flute line boring into your skull with the savage ferocity that only elevator music can muster, “The Hustle” was inescapable and inevitable, the kind of record that crawls under your skin, subliminally taking root to the point where you find yourself whistling it while masturbating.
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