Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Persistent earworm alert LXXII
After spending more hours asleep than planned one recent day, a rap song I hadn't thought about in years came to mind. If you listened to KMJM in 1983, you might remember "New York New York" by Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five. (To the uninitiated, this is not the tune Frank Sinatra made famous.) Sleeping longer than planned made the lyric, "I would probably sleep my whole life away," play on a mental loop. Recalling the tune's other lyrics made me remember what a grim picture it paints. It's one of the bleakest, most out-of-character-for-me songs that I've ever experienced as an earworm. Here's hoping my next earworm is more comforting.