I was driving home today and had the radio tuned to my country station. As much as we all like to berate the current state of top 40 country, I think every one of us is guilty of turning it on now and again – if only out of morbid curiosity. Anyway, the new Toby Keith song came on, and afterwards, the chorus was stuck in my head all day. So, for the rest of the afternoon, the inside of my head was singing ‘she holds tight to me and the Bible/on the backseat of my motorcycle’. And while I’m not at all a fan of the female characters in Keith’s songs, I couldn’t help but find the chorus too damn catchy to shake off.
Now, I have nothing personal against the song itself. Though I do think Toby’s view of a modern woman is a bit warped, to say the least. And I’ve yet to meet one believable lady in any one of his lyrics lately. I don’t know any high maintenance whiskey girls myself. I did meet a hottie last month, but she never cried in front of me and when I asked her to crash here tonight, she left me a big blue note.
Anyway, some intense Lee Ann Womack therapy has pretty much cleansed my brain of the pesky earworm that is ‘God Love Her’, thankfully. But I know the next time I turn on my radio, there’s another tune – just as mundane – waiting to take its place in my consciousness.
What songs that you don’t like get stuck in your head? And what songs do you think make good earworms?
