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Scientists may have found what makes a tune catchy, after locating the brain area where a song’s “hook” gets caught

Whenever I get a bad tune stuck in my head, I use Steve Albini’s advice: just play Tina Turner’s ‘Private Dancer’ in your head, and all will be well again. (It’s the utter shapelessness of the song that makes it work. Or something.)

Thu 10 Mar 2005 at 18:29   ·


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