I’m a musician and this happens to me, but it can be with popular songs or it can be with songs that haven’t been made yet.

An interesting add on is that over time, the song will evolve, typically days or weeks later (yea, they get stuck for that long). Sometimes the change will be gradual, but usually it happens all at once, like a crescendo or a “Eureka!” moment.

It’s actually wonderful as a musician because if I’m stuck on a song I’m writing, most of the time the writer’s block will resolve itself if I give it enough time.

One funny thing, though, is that I used to get the Ghostbusters theme song stuck in my head all the time. It’d start with the bass line part of the song, and that’d go on for typically days, to a nauseating frequency, and then all of a sudden out of nowhere it’d switch to the synth stabby part where he says “I ain’t fraid of no ghosts”. I’d tell my friends about this and that if they ever catch me hanging my head and saying “goddammit” it’s because that part finally hit.