Articles — Music

Some musical parodies transcend their source material, becoming earworms that lodge themselves permanently in your brain. Science has yet to explain why we can't stop humming them.

Every few years humanity loses its mind over a set of dance moves until everyone's doing it badly. A salute to the crazes that refused to stay buried.

Parody songs hijack a melody you already can't forget and bolt ridiculous new lyrics onto it forever. Here's why they refuse to move out of your brain.