Earworms

I'm not a big Beatles fan.

I resisted even listening to them for a long time because in my view anything over hyped is to be avoided. Hype kills things, and often it kills them dead. I've seen Citizen Kane four times in my life and each time I spent a solid ten minutes after shouting "So what's the big deal? NO! Really? What the hell is the big deal about this thing?" because it just fails to live up to the hype.

So, I avoided the Beatles for a long long time. My Dad lent me a copy of Magical Mystery Tour and Sgt. Pepper a few years ago so I could put them on my computer and when I had to rebuild my entire collection because of the crashed computer I got all of Syd's Dad's music. Her dad has like everything the Beatles ever did, like... three times. I had to do a lot of comparing to figure out which was just a second copy and which were actually different versions of songs. That's also how I got a copy of Hot Rods & Custom Classics, which contains more songs about cars and cruisin' than are dreamed of in your philosophy, let me tell you Horatio Internets. That's how I got Hey Little Cobra stuck in my head for three days.

The point I'm slowly trying to make is that while I'm still not a big Beatles fan, I am willing to admit that they don't suck. I'm also going to concede that Penny Lane is a better song to have stuck in your head all day than either Hey Little Cobra or Whip It for that matter. Also, wants it known that you can whip it well, or whip it properly, but you can't whip it good. I tried to tell her that "Whip it well" would scan properly but she insists you could just rewrite the lyrics.