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Music is so catchy that they had to come up with a word to describe those songs that get stuck in your head: earworm. Click on any music quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who sang it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to sing it.
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"'Cause you know I love the players, and you love the game."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"Am I original? Am I the only one? Am I sexual?"Source: "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen

"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't."Source: I Can't Make You Love Me | Speaker: Bonnie Raitt

"Darlin' it's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me!"Source: Under the Sea | Speaker: Sebastian the Crab

"Don't trust your soul to no backwoods Southern lawyer…"Source: "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" | Speaker: Vicki Lawrence

"Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes. How do you measure, measure a year?"Source: Seasons of Love | Speaker: Cast of Rent

"Got a long list of ex-lovers; they'll tell you I'm insane."Source: "Blank Space" | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"He's leavin'… on that midnight train to Georgia."Source: Midnight Train to Georgia | Speaker: Gladys Knight and the Pips

"Here comes the sun. And I say, it's all right."Source: "Here Comes the Sun" | Author: George Harrison

"Hey, where did we go? Days when the rains came..."Source: "Brown-Eyed Girl" | Speaker: Van Morrison

"How many ears must one man have before he can hear people cry?"Source: Blowin' in the Wind | Speaker: Bob Dylan

"I can't help falling in love with you."Source: Can't Help Falling in Love | Speaker: Elvis Presley

"I don't care who you are, where you're from, what you did, as long as you love me"Source: "As Long As You Love Me" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I feel so close to you right now, it's a force field."Source: Feel So Close | Speaker: Calvin Harris

"I just can't get you outta my head."Source: "Can't Get You Out of My Head" | Speaker: Kylie Minogue

"I never want to hear you say, I want it that way."Source: "I Want It That Way" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I said a hip, hop, the hippie, the hippie, to the hip hip-hop."Source: Rapper's Delight | Speaker: The Sugarhill Gang

"I see a little silhouetto of a man. Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the fandango?"Source: "Bohemian Rhapsody" | Speaker: Queen

"I think to myself: what a wonderful world."Source: What a Wonderful World | Speaker: Louis Armstrong

"I've got a blank space, baby, and I'll write your name."Source: Blank Space | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts."Source: "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" | Speaker: Danny Kaye

"I've got all my life to live and I've got all my love to give"Source: I Will Survive | Speaker: Gloria Gaynor

"I've got no strings to hold me down, to make me fret, or make me frown."Source: I've Got No Strings | Speaker: Pinocchio

"If you change your mind, I'm the first in line. Honey, I'm still free, take a chance on me."Source: Take a Chance on Me | Speaker: ABBA

"If you liked it, then you shoulda put a ring on it."Source: Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) | Speaker: Beyoncé

"In sleep, he sang to me. In dreams, he came. That voice which calls to me and speaks my name."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps tonight."Source: The Lion Sleeps Tonight | Speaker: The Tokens

"Islands in the stream, that is what we are."Source: Islands in the Stream | Speaker: Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers

"Maybe I'm amazed at the way you love me all the time."Source: "Maybe I'm Amazed" | Speaker: Paul McCartney

"My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone."Source: The Boys of Summer | Speaker: Don Henley

"Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople."Source: Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Speaker: They Might Be Giants

"Oh, there's an empty place in my bones that calls out for something unknown."Source: Jack's Lament | Speaker: Jack Skellington

"Open up your mind, let your fantasies unwind."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: The Phantom

"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates

"Salagadoola mechicka boola bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!"Source: Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo | Speaker: Fairy Godmother

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime."Source: The Phantom of the Opera (1986 Musical) | Speaker: Christine Daae

"Show me the meaning of being lonely"Source: "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely" | Speaker: The Backstreet Boys

"Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need. I say love, it is a flower and you its only seed."Source: The Rose | Speaker: Bette Midler

"The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades"Source: The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Speaker: Timbuk 3

"The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man."Source: Son of a Preacher Man | Speaker: Dusty Springfield

"The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls."Source: The Sound of Silence | Speaker: Simon and Garfunkel

"There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun."Source: "House of the Rising Sun" | Speaker: Unknown

"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen

"Wake up Maggie, I think I got something to say to you."Source: "Maggie May" | Speaker: Rod Stewart

"We are never ever ever getting back together."Source: We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together | Speaker: Taylor Swift

"What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?"Source: "Peace, Love, and Understanding" | Speaker: Elvis Costello

"When the dawn comes, tonight will be a memory, too."Source: Cats (1981 Musical) | Speaker: Grizabella

"Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods?"Source: "Holding Out for a Hero" | Speaker: Bonnie Tyler

"Yo ho! Yo ho! A pirate's life for me! We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot!"Source: Yo Ho (A Pirate's Life for Me) | Speaker: Pirates

"You better start swimming or you'll sink like a stone, 'cause the times they are a-changing."Source: The Times They Are a-Changin' | Speaker: Bob Dylan

"You can do anything but lay off of my blue suede shoes."Source: Blue Suede Shoes | Author: Carl Perkins