dharmacurious , 5 hours ago

I love the song Harper Valley PTA. Great song. Very fun.

Once, before smartphones, on a car trip, one of sang the first few lines, and then neither of us could remember the rest. We then got lost, and spent the next 8+ hours driving before we got home. The entire fucking time it was stuck in our heads, with no respite. Just “I wanna tell you all a story 'bout a Harper Valley widow’d wife” on repeat. Over. And over. And over. And over again.

Once we got home and played, we naively assumed it was over. Alas, our brains had been conditioned. It was there for good. For 2 fucking weeks, it rattled around my skull and my mother’s skull, relentlessly. Listening to it didn’t help, not listening to it didn’t help. Listening to other music didn’t help. Sleep didn’t help. It was the eternal intro. I thought I was going insane.

I cannot listen to that song anymore.

Angie Baby got stuck once pretty bad, too, but nothing like Harper Valley PTA