Phrases that, when you see them, you inexplicably start singing them to the melody of something else (and then will forever be associated with that)

Furtado phone search will likely enter my repertory, thank you.

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

(to the tune of "You Get What You Give")

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson
Murder rap to keep you dancin'
With a crime record like Charles Manson
Come around we'll kick your ass in

Fashion shoots with Beck and Hanson

WE DIDN'T START THE FIYAH!

always love how that song reduces weighty historic moments as 2 second soundbytes

if he was describing the last year, it'd be

Contentious election year
Global pandemic is here
Angry streets, police beats
QAnon is hot

'vid nineteen
on the scene
what else do I HOOS to steen?

(should probably be in Songs where it's fun to say HOOS in place of the actual lyrics)

The famous COVID-era phenomenon of Bad Hands (when you’ve touched something from outside of your home and need to wash your hands before doing anything else)

— Patrick Monahan (@pattymo) August 28, 2020

saw this tweet, and now every time i go too long without sanitizing i hear springsteen scream "BAD HANDS, you gotta live it everyday!"

I have no clear idea why but every time I read the new US politics thread title I think:

People that you've never heard of, people that are in the dark shadows
All entrances delivered, courtesy of winter

every time I see the name Ted Danson I think of Elvis Costello's "No Dancing" and what it would be like if the lyrics were all about Ted Danson

Whenever I see an Imperial IPA, the Unrest song plays in my head.

but iiii don't feel like Danson
no sir, no Danson for me

also, xpost: I only know a couple of Unrest songs, am working off West Coast Love Affair and coming up with "i'll meet you IPA..... I'll drink you, IPA"

haha, that would be better actually

had to drive co-worker to a meeting in suburbs that involved taking highway 238 ... i warned him I would get the Misfits stuck in my head ...

We're on 238
We're on 238 ...

he was warned

On a recent camping trip someone used a Jetboil to make coffee and I had Jet Boy, Jet Girl stuck in my head for quite a while.

I absolutely do that with any number that ends with 38

My kid is hardcore into Pokémon lately and I get a bunch of their names set to tunes in my head.

Besides the obvious Siouxsie pronunciation of pikachu, I hear Stevie Nicks or Gene Simmons saying “golduck woman” and Stephen Malamus yelling “not here babe...torchic!”

My Bloody valentine
dead rotting valentine
you made me rip out your heaaaaaaaaaaaaart

Whoa, Antietam
We could make it together

Gonna see the Rona
Got a ticket for the Bay City Rona

Don’t think I’ve ever looked at the menu of an Indian restaurant without singing “Vindaloo!” to the tune of ABBA’s “Waterloo.”

totally owned by the actual lyrics of "I Just Wanna Have Something To Do" for me

OTM

Here’s your ticket
Hear the drummer get triptych

Or substitute on the first line instead of you prefer

whenever i see last posted by ilxor "One Eye Open" I get "I'm Not Losing Sleep" by Julian Cope stuck in my head for at least 30 minutes

“Born Under Punches”/The Jerk
“Take a look at these cans!”

Lol, nice.

This is still a problem for me.

Various things get sandwiched into Hall & Oates' Maneater these days:

Whoa-oh here she comes
Watch out boy, she'll raise your boat
Whoa-oh here she comes
She's an airbladder

Me dealing with a constipated dog that I was walking last week had an rewrite of the Shoop Shoop song in my head.

"Is it in the street?
Oh no, that's just some sticks
Is it by his feet?
Oh no, that's melted Twix
If you wanna no
The dogg didn't go
It's still in his butt"

oh my God, that's super-relevant to my life right now.

*ugly kid joe voice* "10 things I still hate about you!"

(needs a "still" to work, in my head)

We watch a lot of Dodger games in my house and whenever Kike Hernandez comes to bat my wife sings “Kike, do you love me?”

it's a good day for you to learn alt-0233

Ha - sorry. Kee-kay.

I read right past that and wondered why he was coming to beat your wife.

"It's your turn..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LED83F8tW10

I was vaguely thinking of making spaghetti carbonara for dinner.

Now my head is like, "going to carbonara in my mind."

Can't you see the bacon

lol

in my mouth, it's paaasta carbonaara

Someone in my social media orbit posted something about how the way to deal with pandemic isolation plus winter isolation is to "think like a Norwegian."

And of course we all went off on a long mental vacation singing that to the tune of "Walk Like an Egyptian."

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

Could also be “How I Got Rona,” I guess

whenever I see this thread I think of that Burger King ad with little people cowboys singing “Buffalo mini sirloin burgers” over a campfire

I’m currently reading Yoon Ha Lee’s Revenant Gun, every time I pick it up I start singing the title to the tune of The Who’s “Eminence Front” to myself.

I keep singing rona to the tune of Craig Mclachlan's Mona.

Recent thread gets High Plains Drifter by the beastie boys stuck in my head “read me my rights, as if I didn’t know this / threw me in the tank with TRUMP GOT COVID”

Ha, will now start singing Rona to Bo Diddley's "Mona."

every time I see the word “hotelier” in my head I hear Juvenile saying it

I feel like it happens w a couple of other words too, but that’s the one that makes me irl lol

I guess I'm sadly unaware of Bo Diddley's stuff - hadn't realised it was a cover! Thanks James.

“How I got COVID,” to the tune of “How I Got Over”

― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, October 10, 2020 4:15 PM (yesterday)

haha now -- 2nd level -- "How I got COVID" to the tune of "Crimson and Clover"

A few years back I glimpsed a story on the news where the headline was “Bizarre Manspreading Assault” (presumably, per Google, this one), for some reason my brain immediately inserted that phrase into the scansion of Pete Townshend’s “Let My Love Open The Door”, and ever since I’ve found myself intermittently singing “bizarre manspreading assault” under my breath to the melody of the Townshend song entirely unprompted by any reminder of manspreading or “Let My Love Open The Door”’s existence.
(I guess I could’ve posted that in this thread at any point since 2017 but this is the first time since then that an instance of the described phenomenon has lined up closely enough with a thread revive for me to a) Remember the thread’s existence and b) Not go “aww, man, I know this has happened to be before, I just can’t think of how or with what song.”)