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Feb 22, 2012 – Hearing Voices In One’s Head

22 Feb 2012 Leave a Comment

by beverly in Funny, music Tags: a capella, barbershop, earworm, music, quartet, realtime

Do you hear voices in your head?
I do.
They’re voices of four men I don’t know, and they are singing four part harmony, a capella, barbershop style, in my head.

And they just won’t leave me alone.

I can’t even hear myself think.
This paper I’m trying to write isn’t going anywhere fast.

But it’s kind of AWESOME.
It’s quite the brain tingling experience, being able to hear and manipulate each of the melodic lines and their voices in harmony to create new music.

If only I had the skill to turn that into music others could hear.
For now it’s stuck, and they’re ringing against all the walls of my head.

And it’s LOUD.

And if at this point you’re a little concerned about my mental health, don’t be. I may be a little sleep deprived, but these voices are the voices of a very talented men’s acapella group named Realtime, and their music is stuck in my head because I bought all their albums off iTunes and listen to them all the time.

Darned earworms.

Wild and wonderful and common to almost all of mankind.
And very very hard to get rid of.