It’s my brain trying to complete the song. I just listen to it until I’ve memorized it from beginning to to end

Find a different song to get stuck in my head.

I have a Megadeath song on standby which I bring to mind and it eliminates the ear worm. 😃

Luckily most of the songs that get stuck in my head are ones I like, so I just let them play until it ends. After that, some other thought(s) occupy my mind, or another song plays.

If it’s an annoying one though? Relax and let it pass like a fart in the wind.

listen to the end of the song or verse, you probably have the middle bit stuck and you just gotta bring it to a conclusion.

Accept that it’s there and go about my day. It will fade just as all the others before it.

I listen for a bit, then I listen to some tunes with a similar BPM, style, or key. I think, though I’m not certain, that it’s my brain telling me that I need to stimulate it by going new places, hearing new things, doing new stuff, etc. It usually stops when I find something else cool enough to hold my interest.

May I ask, what song you have stuck? I had “Golden” from Kpop Demonhunters such in my head for a few weeks recently but my earworms come from an genres.

I currently have the theme music from Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind stuck in my head but I’m kind of okay with it.

If conclude the song in my head. It ends the loop and stops. If I don’t know the ending, I make up some grandiose ending so my brain thinks it’s over.

I sing it. Repeatedly.

Sing it

I hum “America” from West Side Story.

I read somewhere years ago that it kicks out earworms without becoming one, and I found that it works for me.

I try not to sing along in public as it plays in my head, because it’s usually some obscene or violent death metal, or deliberately edgy rude cover of a popular song.

Punch myself in the testicles. You’d be surprised how much this can distract you from an earworm.

ill never get tired of Easy Street so it’s fine!