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roseembolism) wrote2008-11-24 04:28 pm
roseembolism) wrote2008-11-24 04:28 pm
Musical Mindworms and why I keep asking "What?"
The party last night brought to the fore an odd little element of my learning disability that fairly few people know about; while I have good hearing in general, my perception for speech is aweful, especially when there's competing noises. Too many competing noises andconversation becomes noise to me.
This actually came up a in a discussion about earworms at the party, when I was asked what earworm I currently had going through my head. This became a problematic question, because the way my hearing perception works, when I first hear a song, I normally hear singing as another instrument, without getting actually understanding most of the words. Normally it takes several repeated listenings for me to get most of the lyrics of a song. So last night, I couldn't remember any of the lyrics to the mindworm buzzing through my head, and responded with a vague approximation of the melody...which nobody could understand because I included both the instrumentals and the vocals into one tune.
This is, incidentally why I prefer smaller parties to large nois ones; it takes effort in a large party for me to hear anything someone is saying. It's also why when i'm concentrating on something, I won't understand a thing someone says to me.
Anyway, the song turned out to be the chorus from Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold:
Repeat ad infinitum, because I can't remember enough of the lyrics to do what I usuallly do with earworms, which is change the lyrics so they're a song about my cats.
Also, here's the music video for the song. I think it's pretty funny. It's good decade for music videos it seems...even if I can't remember the words.
This actually came up a in a discussion about earworms at the party, when I was asked what earworm I currently had going through my head. This became a problematic question, because the way my hearing perception works, when I first hear a song, I normally hear singing as another instrument, without getting actually understanding most of the words. Normally it takes several repeated listenings for me to get most of the lyrics of a song. So last night, I couldn't remember any of the lyrics to the mindworm buzzing through my head, and responded with a vague approximation of the melody...which nobody could understand because I included both the instrumentals and the vocals into one tune.
This is, incidentally why I prefer smaller parties to large nois ones; it takes effort in a large party for me to hear anything someone is saying. It's also why when i'm concentrating on something, I won't understand a thing someone says to me.
Anyway, the song turned out to be the chorus from Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold:
"Cause you're hot then you're cold
You're yes then you're no
You're in then you're out
You're up then you're down
You're wrong when it's right
It's black and it's white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up"
You're yes then you're no
You're in then you're out
You're up then you're down
You're wrong when it's right
It's black and it's white
We fight, we break up
We kiss, we make up"
Repeat ad infinitum, because I can't remember enough of the lyrics to do what I usuallly do with earworms, which is change the lyrics so they're a song about my cats.
Also, here's the music video for the song. I think it's pretty funny. It's good decade for music videos it seems...even if I can't remember the words.