Oh sweet mother of God save me - I have Dancing Queen in my head

[Rabrrrrrr]

Here I am, writing a paper. I was listening to some meditation kind of CDs, with lots of frogs and rain and stuff while writing. Then, BAM!, about 2 hours ago, OUT OF NOWHERE, "Dancing Queen" comes screaming into my head. Not only do I hate this song, and not only have I always hated this song, I also only know these lines:

"You are the dancing queen,
yong and sweet on the tambourine

la la la lala, and lots of la la la la stuff,

and I know:

"You can dance, you can fly,
ghaving the time of our lives

blah blah blah blah

Dancing Queesn... etc."

So, it's not only stuck, I don't even get the benefit of the whole thing, which would mean less repitition (if there is such a thing as less repitition in an ABBA tune). Nope, just those two lines.

Will someone, for the love of God, have sympathy on me?

[SOteric]

1. Shake your groove thing, Shake your groove thing, yeah-yeah!

Show us how to do it now...

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. do a little dance!

thanks! I'm still cursed, but now with a new song at least!

[SOteric]

18. Well, if it's *really* bad...

we could amputate, - but I was sort of saving that as a last resort.

[Cooley Hurd]

2. Did you watch "Muriel's Wedding" recently?

A great, ABBA-laden movie...

[Rabrrrrrr]

7. No, but thanks for the heads up! I'll make sure not to watch it.

[pink_poodle]

3. Build it into a big crescendo with a huge finale. Somehow.............

this "brings closure" to the song. Or so I've been told. Good luck!!!! I'm so glad this song has never captured me.

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. It used to hit me a lot, because I walked by the wintergarden every

morning and evening on my way to and home from work.

The wintergarden is where that ABBA musical is playing, where CATS used to be. And bloody hell, for 9 months, I had an office that looked down at the marquee.

Egads. Such horror I put up with.

Why won't you die? I say in my best Austin Powers voice.

[HEyHEY]

4. sorry...we're gonna have to put you down

*loads gun*

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Please!

Make your kill shot compassionately and accurately, though, please.

[HEyHEY]

8. I'm listening to roll over beethoven

try to think of that tune!

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Thanks! That got SOteric's song out of my head!

Much better.

[juajen]

11. My reply is below

"Baby you are my shining star". Thanks for giving me a new one.

[agingdem]

12. Momma Mia...

This might help...I have the Momma Mia CD in my car and when my six year old granddaughter rides in my car she insists on listening to Dancing Princess.

[Red State Rebel]

13. Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl.....

[DS1]

14. LIGHTS OUT! GUERRILLA RADIO!

TURN THAT SHIT UP!

Transmission third world war third round
A decade of the weapon of sound above ground
No shelter if youre looking for shade
I lick shots at the brutal charade
As the polls close like a casket
On truth devoured
Silent play in the shadow of power
A spectacle monopolized
The cameras eyes on choice disguised
Was it cast for the mass who burn and toil?
Or for the vultures who thirst for blood and oil?
Yes a spectacle monopolized
They hold the reins, stole your eyes
All the fistagons the bullets and bombs
Who stuff the banks
Who staff the party ranks
More for Gore or the son of a drug lord
None of the above fuck it cut the cord

(chorus)

That should hold ya over :7

[Cleita]

15. Did you watch "Cold Case" tonight?

It was part of the sound track.

[hunter]

16. Arnold Schwarzenegger

He's a dancing queen.

Hope that helps.

:evilgrin:

[qwertyMike]

17. Replace it with

"Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree''


Worked for me till they took me away

[ironflange]

19. Lemme fix it for ya

Here's the story
Of a lovely lady,
Who was bringing up three very lovely girls. . .

[Zomby Woof]

20. Dancin' FOOL!

Get THAT song in your head instead!

[CandyCrim21]

21. Don't run away from your feelings!

This is a safe space, friend! Be yourself. Let it all go!! Let it ALL out!!:party:

[corarose]

22. That song has been stuck in my head since it came out

Good luck getting rid of it.

(Just Kidding)

[TreasonousBastard]

23. GOTCHA!!!

ABBA has more earworms and hooks than any 100 disco albums.

But, just think of those poor people who grew up with The Andrews Sisters.

[GalleryGod]

24. A GREAT GUILTY PLEASURE ANTHEM! Do NOT Be Ashamed! Saw a stripper work to

that song once...VERY memorable!:grouphug:

[shirlden]

25. Thanks......thanks a bloody lot.

I have to write a paper today and now I HAVE Dancing Queen swirling in my head. What is it with that song????? MAMA MIA !!!

:argh:


Note to self......never read a post with DAncing Queen in the title

[BritishHuman]

26. It's a small world after all...

I'm reliably informed that that constitutes a practically unshiftable earworm for Americans. As I've never heard it, I can use it with impunity. MWUAHAHAHA!!!

All together now...

[TXlib]

27. Play dat funky music, white boy...

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Well, it finally went away sometime this afternoon

Dang, but that bloody thing stuck in my head for a long time.

Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions!

[Rhiannon12866]

29. I've been afflicted with this, myself

Some songs are just like that. The best remedy I've found is to listen to something equally addictive that you prefer to the one that's stuck in yoor head. Simon & Garfunkel does it for me. I sing with them while I'm in the car and sometimes speed right past my destination!:D

[woofless]

30. Sky Rockets in flight

Afternoon delight............
There, that should do it.....


Woof

[CanuckAmok]

31. Try thinking about the "Meow Mix" theme--that oughta do it! n/t

[Rabrrrrrr]

32. HA HA! Now when I think of "meow mix", it's Dr. Evil singing it!

I can't even remember what the original sounded like!

[Iverson]

33. Here's the cure, but you may not like it.

Just imagine Jose Feliciano's "Feliz Navidad."
After a few hundred repeats of I wanna weesh you a merry creesmas, you will go out of your mind afresh.

Sorry.

It will go away by tomorrow, or at least by next Wednesday.

[Rhiannon12866]

34. I thought of you this afternoon

when I had the car radio on an oldies station and they played a song by ABBA. Fortunately, it was one of their less memorable numbers.:-)

[musiclawyer]

35. Dancing queen is a world class pop song

My sympathies if you have a "loop" going and can't get rid of it. But as a songwriter, and one who generally does not like pop music, ABBA was very very skllled at their craft. The chorus as intro was not and still is not routinely employed by pop songwriters, although some do it. That song with be with us forever.