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)

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.”)

wowwww

‘Mats
Wait, they don’t love you like I love you
#OneThread

Pinky & the Brain obviously already have an iconic theme song, but also: to the tune of "Blame it on the Rain."

there was a buttermilk culture/in the heart of the refrigerator

♬ "Demonyms spoken in claasss todayyyyyy" ♬

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots, POLL pots

it's the new Oktoberfest Pretzels
they're 2 for 7 bucks
...

I mean, as the threadstarter I had absolutely no hopes for it. Turns out Lindelof did the right thing in the end, which I didn't expect in the slightest. Happy to have expectations undone.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, October 17, 2020 12:53 PM (three hours ago)

“I AM THE GOD OF THREADSTARTING!”

lol x2

big RAGGS aka the

The name of a certain lawyer who used to be mayor of NYC to the tune of “Gary, Indiana.” Been doing this since he WAS mayor, I think, don’t believe I posted it before/zingposting.

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?”

― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, September 26, 2020 9:20 PM (four weeks ago)

At this point in our household, "Randy Arozarena" is always sung to the tune of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer."

"Certified Lover Boy" reminds me of "Sugar pie honey bunch" from the Four Tops "I Can't Help Myself"

Lots of phrases that fit the meter of “Vamos a la Playa”

"Charlemagne" to the tune of Lou Reed singing "Sally Mae" on "Foggy Notion."

wait, he isn't actually singing Charlemagne????????

Didn't the Windows icon for the top-level folder used to be 'My Computer'? I swear at some point it changed to 'This PC' without me noticing, because I've only recently caught myself unconsciously saying 'This PC be Warren G' when I open it.

Hahahahaha

yes it was My Computer for a very very long time

Someone tweeted an alert they’d gotten from Reverb about Sun Ra’s synths, plus their “play now, pay later” payment plans on gear. The tweeter said, “Sun Ra AND predatory lending? Now that’s my kind of email!”

Now I can only hear “predatory lending” to the tune of Sun Ra’s “Interplanetary Music.”

"four seasons total landscaping" ... (sorry) ... to Human League "Don't You Want Me"

I was working at four seasons total landscaping ... when I met you

The four years we have had have been such good at times
I still love you
But now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

scratch that:

The four years we have had have been such good times
I still love you now hate you
And now I think it's time I lived my life on my own
I guess it's just what I must do

the song’s scenario is basically the current ‘dialogue’ between Trump and America: “You know I don’t believe you when you say that you don’t need me” —“Yeah, whatever. We’re so over now”. #doyousee?

I wanna know
Have you ever seen Lorraine
Falling down
Down the stairs

Whooooa
We're half way there
Whoooo-oaaah
Falling down the stairs

both ace

underused subject matter in songs

I'll tell you once more before I get to the stairs
I'm falling down

I'm falling down
groos!
I'm falling down
groos!

just want to say that I have always sung it in my head as "Lorraine"

My mother-in-law recently regifted me a huge cheese spread that she received as a token of appreciation for some legal work she did for someone. So now, every time I open my fridge, I hear to the tune of Ziggy Marley:

Wisconsin Cheeseman, where is your past?
Wisconsin Cheeseman, how long will you last?

I am a cheeseman for the county

Lol I love the randomness of that... but did "African Herbsman" somehow get mixed up in it?

This is the inverse phenomenon, but thinking of John Bonham singing from other thread reminded me that I can never, ever hear “Out On The Tiles” w/o the little song he wrote that Page based the riff on:
I’m out on the tiles
I feel a little better, now I’ve had a pint of bitter and
I’m out on the tiles

Wait where is this Bonham singing discussion?

really about John Paul Jones singing in Zeppelin thread

Most car license plate holders that have the name of the dealership at the bottom I sing to "Werewolves of London" because many do scan:

Honda of Oakland
Audi of Berkeley
Putnam Toyota

though enough of these do fit the Werewolves of London rhythm, my brain ends up hurting when I take note of one that does not fit because I will try and make it fit?

I just tried and all of these work, also I think I’m stuck w this now

a-ooooooo, Honda of Oakland

lol

I love that

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Wash away my troubles
Wash away my shame
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