My wife keeps singing music from Into the Woods. It's a fine musical, and I'm a fan of it, but she's getting the songs such in my head.

I need ammunition to fight back with.

What's a good song to play that I can't get stuck in her head?

Sorry to go nuclear on your wife. Make it through the chorus of this song (mmm bop) one time and it's just about guaranteed earworm. In the words of Mr. Miyagi "If do right, no can defend."

https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE

I'm probably screwed just by thinking of the song to recommend it to you. 😁

Bobbing along from Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Doggie in the window

Those are the last 2 ear worms I gave my wife by accident.

Take this ancient weapon from the 80s:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIgZ7gMze7A

The worst earworms are when you dont really know the words. If you dont have kids I recommend Danny Go.

You could've simply type "Jitterbug!" to plant this into our collective brains.

Oh, so you're fucking evil. Noted.

Stuck in my head without even listening.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ekr2nIex040&list=RDekr2nIex040&start_radio=1&pp=ygUDQXB0oAcB

Somebody once told me

I’m surprised nobody mentioned Yellow Submarine yet. Or the Sesame Street theme. Or Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo.

If you really want to be evil you can also do The 7th Element or Better Off Alone. You have options

Doop

Oooh that’s delightfully sinister love it

Kittyman Sea Shanty by the Trailer Park Boys.

Or Amazing Horse by MrWeebl.

Or perhaps Give That Wolf a Banana by Subwoolfer.

I'mmmmm saiiiiiling away...

Ba du bop, ba duba dop

Truly deranged mid-80s wear on display, thanks for the link!

https://music.apple.com/us/album/the-american-and-florence-nobodys-side/1440851421?i=1440851434

Still needs music

https://lemmy.world/post/53285519

https://youtu.be/Qj1heGiIehU?is=Nu6Fgyw1_KfaZzpU

Easy Street

Live is life. Na Naa na na na!

Pompeii by Bastille. Not so much the song but the day-day-oh, day-oh chant that runs under it.

Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye. It took me years to get rid of it. I am in danger simply talking about it here.

Speaking of Day-oh though, the Banana Boat Song made famous by Harry Belafonte and also its appearance in Beetlejuice is a mid tier earworm. It all depends on how evil you're feeling.

Edit: 10 imaginary points if you spot what I had to fix.

80s/90s cartoon intros, e.g.

::: spoiler Gummi Bears
Dashing and daring

Courageous and caring

Faithful and friendly

With stories to share

All through the forest

They sing out in chorus

Marching along

As their song fills the air

Gummi Bears

Bouncing here and there and everywhere...

:::

::: spoiler Duck Tales
Life is like a hurricane

Here in Duckburg

Racecars, lasers, aeroplanes

It's a duck-blur

Might solve a mystery

Or rewrite history

DuckTales

Ooh-ooh

:::

::: spoiler Rescue Rangers

Sometimes some crimes

Go slipping through the cracks

But these two gumshoes

Are picking up the slack

There's no case too big

No case too small

When you need help, just call...

Ch-Ch-Ch-Chip 'n Dale's

Rescue rangers

:::

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K1b8AhIsSYQ&list=RDK1b8AhIsSYQ&start_radio=1&pp=ygUSd2UgYnVpbHQgdGhpcyBjaXR5oAcB&ra=m

You call that Evil? Try the song that never ends: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz6OGVCdov8

baby shark

Are Eurovision songs allowed? That's cheating.
https://youtu.be/1jSrBdN4b5c

Windy, by The Association

This should get to her:

https://youtu.be/eWM2joNb9NE

Flesh is burning, da na na na naaaa na

https://youtube.com/watch?v=HuDAhgyAJIQ

Copacabana. I've had it for about 8 years. Drives my husband crazy that i can't stop singing it.

Love me, love me...

Wesley Willis, Rock and Roll McDonald’s

Most things from MrWeebl... And now I'm singing bag full of crabs lol

Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

Toxic by Britney Spears

Es rappelt im Karton ton ton...

chipi chipi chapa chapa dubi dubi daba daba

diggy diggy hole

Core memory unlocked

These 3 are classics that get burned into my brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q6yphdZhUA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU-wH8SrFro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viMEhOWcxd0

That 1st one got stuck with me for years.

This was a brutal ear worm for me for a few weeks

Mmmbop - by Hanson

https://youtu.be/NHozn0YXAeE?is=O-Sdvqa6ypQgmSCJ

https://youtu.be/w1Oo84eI8gY

Put a banana in your eeeaaaar 🎶

🎶I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves!🎶

Dragostea din te (might not be spelling that right but it's iconic enough that it should pop right up when searched).

Also blue by Eiffel 65, the party rock anthem or crazy frog. No lyrics but still catchy is something like Sandstorm.

Let's do the Milkshake

Selling like a hotcake

Try some, buy some

Fee-fi-fo-fum

Talk about... pop muzik

Talk about... pop muzik

Pop, pop, pop muzik

The best are no word tunes

The limbo song for example. Hum/whistle that shit for 10-20 minutes at work and watch by the end of the day at least half your coworkers are humming it.

Beautiful and Tragic - The Trews

a bad one is bananaphone

There’s a better version

Pick another musical. Go for Sweeny Todd or something.