Rainbow Dash walked into band practice with bloodshot eyes, a general hung-over slump to her posture, a mug of tea in one hand, and a jar of honey in the other. "Hey guys," she said in a scratchier voice than usual. "Sunset, can you take over on lead everything for me today?"
Sunset Shimmer blinked. "Sure," she said, retuning her guitar and adjusting her knobs as the rest of the girls stared at Rainbow. "What's wrong? Are you coming down with something?"
Rainbow shook her head. "Did this to myself," she croaked. "You know how sometimes you get a song stuck in your head and it won't go away?" As the others nodded and made noises of agreement, she said, "That was me all weekend. I...I just couldn't stop singing..." She took a sip of tea and added more honey to it, stirring it idly. "Even now, I've...I've got it playing on my phone..." She tugged at her earbud cords. "I totally trashed my voice."
"Yikes." Sunset shook her head. "I know how you feel, though. I've been the same way all weekend. Got a really catchy song stuck in my head Friday, it's still there." She absently strummed a riff. She missed Rainbow's eyes widening.
"Earworms are the worst," Pinkie Pie agreed. "It's like, okay, it's an awesome song and I love awesome fun songs, but after a few days, it's like, make it stoooooop!" She tapped out a rhythm on her drums. Rainbow's head turned to her, her mouth working silently.
"Ah know whutcha mean," Applejack said as she idly picked at her bass. "Apple Bloom an' Big Mac was watchin' somethin' this weekend an' there was this song, an' Ah jes'...Ah can't git it outta mah head!"
By now, Rainbow was shaking her head in disbelief while Fluttershy was staring at her bandmates with a confused frown. Sunset's absent strumming, Applejack's idle picking, and Pinkie's dismissive tapping had somehow converged into a song. The same song. A song they'd never played before.
"Umm...girls?" Fluttershy asked.
Rarity blinked. "Are we doing a new song? Nobody told me we were..." She pursed her lips, concentrating, and began playing along on her keytar. "How odd," she mused. "I...I seem to know this song..."
"What's going on here?" Fluttershy wondered.
"Dude," Rainbow said, staring at the others. "No friggin' way."
Sunset, Pinkie, and Applejack all realized what they were doing at the same time, stopped, and looked around at each other, blinking. "The heck?" Sunset said.
"Freaky-deaky!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"Huh. Ain't that somethin'," Applejack grunted.
"That's the same song I've been singing all weekend!" Rainbow said.
Rarity blinked. "Huh. What are the odds of that?"
"Is this an Equestrian magic thing?" Fluttershy wondered.
Sunset snorted. "Honestly? I think it's more like a cable TV thing." She shook her head and went back to playing; Pinkie and Applejack joined in, with Rarity following along while Fluttershy did her best to keep up on tamborine.
The door opened, and Twilight Sparkle walked in. She blinked. "Seriously? You girls too?"
"Hey Twilight," Rainbow rasped. "Whaddya mean 'us too'?"
Twilight shook her head. "I've been hearing this song all over school all day today. It's so weird..."
As Twilight took a seat, Octavia Melody poked her head in, frowning. "Good grief, is there no escape from this song?"
"Wow, even the Rainbooms," Ditzy Doo said as she looked in. "And I thought it was just Flash and his band that were obsessed with this song..."
"Where did this song even come from?" Twilight wondered.
"Some cartoon everybody claims to hate," Sunset Shimmer said as she played through the bridge. "Funny thing, for a show everybody hates, they sure do watch it a lot..."
"Hey," Pinkie said suddenly, "wouldn't it be funny if we all ponied up and the song took us all to that crazy radical world like it does in the cartoon?"
And then that happened.
And it was pretty awesome.
This is awesome xD
Not always fun, but yes.
Damn.
If Moth's earlier blog post and the title are any indication, and the link, I think I know what it is.
*shrug* They have a hate boner for it?
Damn. That's impressive.
That's actually pretty funny, really.
Still, the most annoying song I ever heard was MainFrame from Borderlands the Pre-Sequel.
That was an awesome quest. You had to go hunt down the song, kill it and bring it back for selection. And then you start to sing it yourself, meaning it's now Stuck in your head!
You know you are now obligated to write a story about what happened in that "crazy radical world".
Anyone agreeing says YEA!
So is this referencing that one episode of Teen Titans Go that everyone agrees is actually good?
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There is no such thing. Not at all. Also, Iยดm not listening to those musics in loop non-stop right now. Eynope !
Say what you will about Teen Titans Go, but if they were able to help produce a song this legitimately great, they're clearly doing something right.
Here I was thinking it'd be "Beep Beep Ima Sheep"
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YEA
This is why I usually listen to a few thousand songs on shuffle. When every song is stuck in your head, none of them recur enough to get annoying.
I do have to watch my voice, though.
The craziest instance of me getting something stuck in my head hard came not from a song, but from the game Rhythm Heaven. The "music" in that game is designed to suit the gameplay and generally isn't even catchy, but I managed to get Remix 4 stuck in my head hard one day, particularly 1:22-1:35.
I love that game. Getting all 50 perfects is by far the hardest thing I've done in a game.
For a while, I thought it was setting up for some kind of fourth wall joke.
Never even heard of that song until today. I REFUSE to watch TTG.
Actually, if anyone knows a way to erase Dumb Ways to Die from my head, please tell me.
I blame CN for playing the episodes all weekend. I love them, but I can't stop hearing the songs in my head. Also I love the different versions of the song when Cee lo Green and Fallout Boy appear.
Shoo be doo, shoo shoo be doo
I'm probably the only person on this board who hasn't watched that show...save for the one bit where they homaged the Ducktales theme song.
...oh drat, now I have that earworm in my head.
I once had a song stuck in my head so badly that it was causing actual problems. Couldn't sleep, couldn't focus, couldn't get my mind onto anything else for four days (was worse then you think too). So I can totally sympathies.
8350991 40% 40% 20% is one of the few good episodes, so I've heard. Well, good by comparison to the rest. Not exactly a mind blowingly great episode, just pretty good.
I saw the title and I was like
The Night!
Begins!
To
SHIIIIIIIIIIIINE!!!!!!!!!
Oh. A Teen Titan Go reference. I must be one of those who doesn't like the show and really doesn't watch it.
Funny. I like that show and haven't watched it for a year or so, but how many claiming to hate it have seen more than me?
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Listening to every State of Trance album might help. Or just tons of dubstep.
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There's a lot of people "hatewatching" it. And then there's people like me who like the show but just kinda forget to watch, I've missed something like a dozen or so episodes. I damn sure didn't miss "The Night Begins To Shine", though. I made a point of being present for all four nights of that and three of the repeat airings over the weekend.
Which is kind of how I got to this point. @_@;;
Should I be relieved I don't get the reference? =V
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Seriously, I don't think even the worst show out there deserves the hate TTG gets. It's ridiculous.
I have the girls beat had chop suey stuck in my head for Two weeks once...I can no longer Liston to that song for fear of it happening again
YES.
Scrolled today feed.
Saw Just girls talking updated.
Read chapter title.
Cringed.
โThis is gonna be about that, isn't it?โ
Sighed, searched The Night Begins to Shine on YouTube, started to read.
Guilty for both.
Usually, I avoid watching it but if my brother tells me that there's a good episode I humor him. 404020 was a really good one.
Eff me I've had Eiffel 65's Blue stuck in me for the past few days and it's been aggravating.
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I wonder if that was my fault somehow, given the title of a recent chapter of one of my other stories...
To be fair, that song is probably one of the better things to come from the show that shall not be mentioned.
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You're not the only one
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IKR? There used to be storms in the comments section about back when KissCartoon was up.
The
bestworst part about an earworm is that it can only be replaced by another earworm, never removed. I usually just pick a song I like and listen to it for a bit until it becomes the next one stuck in my head. Then when I get tired of that one I go find another, and so on ad infinitum.I am so confused right now. I have no idea whats goining on.
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Not your fault. I was looking at music videos for old hits from before I had MTV.
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Teen Titans happened, which is also one degree of Tara Strong separation.
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As in teen titans go? Oh of course. Really should have figured that one out.
Huh.... well that was interesting, very interesting...
Eh, good job Moth, hehehe
Can't say I've seen TTG or heard those songs, but I remember a time when "Let It Go" wouldn't be let go.
Huh.... well that was interesting, very interesting...
Eh, good job Moth, hehehe
TTG isn't that bad; it's good for an occasional laugh.
Your link to the song is broken so I had no idea what you were talking about until reaching the comments.
Because of that when I saw this part:
I thought you were talking about this:
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Works just fine for me. Seems to work just fine for most everybody else. What error is the "broken" link giving you?
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It opens up in Youtube but shows me an warning that the video isn't available.
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Then it's not available for you. Probably due to your geographical region or something. The video's there, it works, the link isn't broken. For whatever reason, you specifically are blocked from viewing it.
It happens.
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Yeah, I know...
From what I hear Cartoon Network only shows like 4 or 5 shows anymore and it spams TTG more than anything else. Last time I tried to see what was showing for old times sake it was TTG for 4 to 5 hours straight. Other people have been complaining that they marathon TTG like that every day.
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I think a lot of people who make that complaint are judging the entire schedule based off a marathon event. From July 27-August 4, CN did air TTG almost nonstop--as part of a special summer event. The same people complaining about that are blatantly ignoring the fact that Disney XD was doing the exact same thing with Phineas and Ferb during the exact same timeframe.