The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #39940   Message #1117998
Posted By: reggie miles
17-Feb-04 - 05:11 PM
Thread Name: The Song Stuck in Your Head, Science
Subject: RE: The Song Stuck in Your Head, Science
I had a waitress from a restaurant tell me that it was one of my songs that got stuck in her head. It was the first time I had ever played it there. I was flattered, but I didn't mention that I had performed several of my songs that evening. I knew which one she spoke of, as it was the one that I introduced as a song I had written.

Sometimes I like to play my songs without that information in the introduction. My hope is to see if it will gain a good response without folks knowing it is one of mine. I think certain audiences; especially an audience that is familiar with your work can be swayed in their judgments. I think an impartial response can be a truer gauge.

Besides, if it doesn't work well, I can always pass it off as somebody else's. (Tee hee!)

I recently had someone else say the same thing about another of my songs. He wanted to know if he could do a cover of it and said that it's stick ability, in his mind, was a good thing for a song to have. Perhaps that's why so many of today's pop songs have so much repetitiveness built in.