Lay Lines by Carol Lay for February 01, 2021

So, when you play something to death, it really means…

Reminds me a bit of Coldplay or Nickelback.

So, about a week ago I was treated to Leonard Cohen’s “Famous Blue Raincoat” after not hearing it for ages. Would I be so lucky as to get that magnificent song lodged in my brain? Nope. Turns out there was another hit song from the era that copied a section of “Raincoat’s” melody and whose writer had to settle a lawsuit brought on by Cohen’s management. That annoyingly inferior piece of treacle is the tune my brain substituted and now I can’t erase… Leo Sayer’s “I Need You.” ARRRGGGHHHH!

So! She’s the one who wrote Baby Shark!!!

Its only words, and words are all I have, to take your heart away…

She deviously evilly discovered composition on a Mobius strip of paper.

I haven’t been able to get Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody out of my head for years. Let me go!

Music is the answer!

Barry Manilow’s obituary.

Mark Twain wrote the first earworm story.

I once read that the way to get an earworm out of your head is to start singing “God Save the Queen”. It did actually work a few times.