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  • His moniker, Earworm, came from the German word "ohrwurm," which means "a song that gets in your head that you can't get it out."

    Messages in 2011's Music Marshall Heyman 2011

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  • Beautiful word (ear worm). Used, if I understand correctly, to denote phrases of highly melodic music that you can't get out of your head all day.

    December 27, 2007