draliman on life

Daily Prompt: Earworm – What song is stuck in your head (or on permanent rotation in your CD  or MP3 player) these days? Why does it speak to you?

I speak here of a song so foul, so insidious, that all who hear it are lost forever!

With that rather melodramatic start, I actually don’t have time to speak for long as I only get 45 minutes for lunch, but I couldn’t let this one pass me by.

I am, of course, referring to that “song” in the film Gremlins. It goes a little like this:

“na na na NA na na, na na na NA na na, na na na naaa na na na na na naaaa”.

Okay, it doesn’t go a lot like that. There aren’t any words so it’s hard to write down. I’d upload a video except I don’t have video-uploading capabilities, and there’s probably all sorts of copyright issues anyway. For those of you who have seen Gremlins, I think it forms part of the starting/closing titles, and is also “sung” by the Gremlins themselves during the film. The film was on over Christmas (as it often is) – I recorded it and watched it some time in January.

This song is so insidious, it has latched into my brain and won’t let go. This song ain’t for shifting. In fact, I believe it has actually burned new neural pathways into my grey matter – only an F-MRI scan will tell us for sure (maybe – neurologists please correct me on this – can we pull music directly from a person’s brain or is that still under development?).

I hear it in the shower, I hear it in bed, I hear it in the car. I have to turn up my stereo to drown in out.

“And next up on X Factor auditions, it’s draliman with his rendition of ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’!”

“Thanks.” (Clears throat.) “na na na NA na na no wait, can I start again, thanks.” (Clears throat.) “Somewheeeere over the raiiiinbow, na na na NA na na oh bugger, forget it.”

I’d actually almost gotten rid of it, and then this Daily Prompt came along and it all came flooding back. Thanks for that, Daily Prompt 🙂