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)

gaslighting -> “Nightclubbing”

Things that I say to the tune of “Eminence Front,” Part I pic.twitter.com/i7tA37rpwY

— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 29, 2022

Not the same thing, but when I think of PJ Harvey's line "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water" I follow it with "Come Mr tallyman, tally me banana."

Brisk Money
Put your Filas on

"Bomb calorimeter" makes me hum "Ein Keloheinu."

whenever i cook white rice the first thing i hear is lou reed shouting "WHITE RICE" like the intro to white light.

Verizon admonishments to pay online -- "your bill is just a click away" --->> chorus of Gimme Shelter

I can Creames Fartpoop
if I can't hold you tonight

I will too often find myself wandering around the apartment singing "I don't know where my phone is...." to the tune of that Nelly Furtado songs, which is double bad 'cos now I can't find my phone and I'm singing a Nelly Furtado song........
― m0stlyClean, Thursday, September 3, 2020 6:31 PM

oh see mine is "I want to know where phone is, I want you to show me" dunno if that's worse
― sarahell, Friday, September 4, 2020 7:15 AM

"Where is my phone" for me is sung to the tune of "Where is my Mind?"
― tater totalitarian (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, September 4, 2020 8:41 AM (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

No no guys, it's to the tune of 'Where is the Love?'
― emil.y, Friday, September 4, 2020 8:52 AM

Today I found myself doing a Dylan / "Tight Connection" thing: "Has anybody SEEN my phone? Has anybody seen MY phone?..."

I sing "Here I go again on my phone" to the tune of Whitesnake a lot

I’ve been known to say to myself “Got phone… in pocket,” à la the Pretenders’ “Brass in Pocket” (which feels like an extremely dorky thing to do).

Cuz I've got one phone in my pocket
And the other one is giving a peace sign

Dem party bullshit always makes me hear the Doors:

She's a

*BOMP!* *BOMP!*

Debbie Wasserman Schultz!

― how's life, Monday, July 25, 2016 6:12 AM (five years ago)

i actually think of this on a semi-regular basis ... so today, to that same Doors song ...

she's a

BOMP! BOMP!

genderqueer lesbian frog

Ritorna, Madonna

to Whiney's favorite .... Kokomo

the new Fujiya Miyagi

That ain't no Portrait of a Lady
No portrait of your baby, your woman, your friend
That ain't no Portrait of a Lady, no way
But maybe it's a way for us to end

this is the POWER OF THE DOG (to the tune of this is the rhythm of the night)

mia wasikowska, mia mia wasikowska (to the tune of mr. dobbalina)

You can find me In the Cut

leche de coco to the first 5 notes of the funkytown melody

Oooh, I love the way you love the way you love me
There's nowhere else I'd rather be (la-di-la-di-liee-eee-eeeye)
Oooh, to feel the way I feel with your arms around me
I only wish that you could see-eeee The Spy Who Loved Me (Loved me)
Woah-ooh-oh-oooh-oh, The Spy Who Loved Me

"The Story of a Canceled Teen" to the tune of "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

I sing “I’ve been learning to troll” to the opening line of “Mama Mia”

I know when that hotline bling
It can only mean one thing
Diarrhea

Goodbye, Suzy Creamcheese
Who could hang a name on you?

Ask any Honda owner who's often left alone all by herself

When I walk my dog, he likes to kick and scrape with his back paws after he, well, poops. Which is a problem if I'm on somebody's lawn. And then one day I had a certain playlist on. So now in these situations, I like to croon quietly to myself--

No diggity (I got to bag it up)

(reading laundry care instructions)

“Tumble dry LOW, LOW, LOW, LOW…”

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Every time my partner says "darling", I think (and sometimes say) "we're up against it." Which is a problem, because darling is my partner's go-to when addressing me.

The thing is, I don't even like 'Major Leagues' that much. But it's lodged in my head somehow.

A friend was obsessed with switching out love for lunch: Lunch Will Keep Us Togwether, Lunch Will Tear Us Apart, The Greatest Lunch of All, Stop in the Name of Lunch, When a Man Lunches a Woman....

― mottdeterre, Wednesday, December 3, 2008 9:23 PM

A big lunch one for me is "break for lunch" => Break 4 Love by Raze

Can’t remember if I posted these above, but I do the same thing with “Armenia” for “America” (God Bless Armenia, etc) and — the coup de grace — “asshole” for “angel”:

JUST CALL ME ASSHOLE
OF THE MORNING, ASSHOLE!

https://xkcd.com/2665/

"time blindness" to the chorus of "Sky Pilot"

An ADHD anthem for the ages.

Did we do “Musk” -> “Tusk” yet?

Hard to see this on the shelf without a Dead Boys tune running thru my head:

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Lol

Haha!

listening to steve reich's "six marimbas" and i can't stop hearing the "from broke to having brokers" line from nelly's "country grammar" repeating ad infinitum

Bruschetta with anchovies
He's not strange
He just wants to live his life this way

When ironing a shirt:

I’m gonna put on my ironed shirt
and chase Satan out of earth

Root killer

Wider than a mile

"Beef Bourgignon" to 'Carol of the bells'

― kinder, Friday, 8 January 2021 23:02 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is getting more ingrained as I get older.

New ones:
Scrubbin' the potatoes - to the Donna Summer - I Feel Love intro

Not strictly what this thread describes but I listened to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road quite a lot and the lyrics 'Your temperament's wrong for the priesthood - and teaching would suit you still less' - from the Dentist song in Little Shop of Horrors - just jump right in there, every time (at the 'Maybe you'll get a replacement - there's plenty like me to be found' bit).

Colonel Gaddafi is on his way
Colonel Gaddafi is here to stay

It took me a few seconds to recall what the original song was.

Oh yo, it was Grendel
Yo, he worked at Red Lobster but I didn’t remendel

POOOOOOOOOOLLL!

Linen by linen, by linen, by linen
I keep holding on

Lol

When making the bed: Clean sheets, on the bed! (Discharge "Free Speech for the Dumb")

clothing brand "Reb Dolls" --> Tom Waits' "Rain Dogs"

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... not yet a woman!