Category: Earworms Worth Having

• “Whatever It Is, I’m Against It!”

  We all have a special song. Okay, we all have lots of special songs but there’s one in particular that, as you go through life, it never stops being deeply relevant. It’s the one that pops into your head with remarkable regularity because it applies in so many ways to so many things. This is…

  A L Katz

  July 20, 2021

  Branding, Culture, Earworms Worth Having, False Patriotism, Movie Reviews, Music & Culture, Showbiz Stories

  Duck Soup, Groucho Marx, Horse Feathers, Huxley College, Marx Brothers, Quincy Adams Wagstaff

• Songs People Get Wrong

  We all know those song lyrics that people have famously gotten wrong — “Scuse me while I kiss this guy” instead of “Scuse me while I kiss the sky” (Hendrix) or “Like a virgin, touched for the thirty-first time” instead of “for the ‘very first time’,” (Madonna) or “Hold me closer, Tony Danza” instead of…

  A L Katz

  February 20, 2021

  Earworms Worth Having, Music & Culture

  Every Breath You Take, Hallelujah, I Love LA, Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze, Leonard Cohen, Like A Virgin, Love Songs, Madonna, Randy Newman, Songs People Get Wrong, The Police

• Our Problem Isn’t That Humans Are “Tribal”, It’s That Humans Aren’t “Tribal ” Enough…

  The English Premiership Football season started today. My side — I’m a Tottenham Hotspur fan (through marriage) going back 30 years — won! Though they played a dull first half, in the second half, the Spurs looked more Spurs-like. They pressed, they out-hustled, they attacked relentlessly. Our new guy (Ndombele) was great and Harry Kane…

  A L Katz

  August 10, 2019

  Back It Up Or It’s Bullshit, Earworms Worth Having, Live Bullshit Free, Magical Thinking, Magical Thinking, New Ways of Thinking, The Branding Age, Uncategorized

  American tribalism, London, Los Angeles, Middle School, Socialization, Spurs, Tottenham Hotspur, Tribalism, Tribes, White Supremacists

• My Earworm Is Now Yours… You’re Welcome

  We all get obsessed with songs. That’s the whole point of writing a song, I guess. To get everyone who hears your song to be unable to get the song out of their heads. Sounds mighty powerful. I wouldn’t know; I’ve written lyrics to songs but the melody part — the actual point of the…

  A L Katz

  May 25, 2019

  Earworms Worth Having, Live Bullshit Free

  Father Of The Bride, Forget, Froot, Live Bullshit Free, Marina, Marina & The Diamonds, Marina Diamandis, Music Recommendations, This Life, Vampire Weekend