My theory is that songs get stuck in your head when you listen to a small part of it so then your brain tries to fill in the rest. So I guess you’d have to listen to the whole thing to make it go away. Haven’t really tested this thoroughly enough so if you do, let me know.

In lots of cases, I attempt to learn it on piano. Just a simple version.

If it’s an earworm, I will consciously play Thunderstruck in my head until it goes away.

I sing it. Repeatedly.

Luckily most of the songs that get stuck in my head are ones I like, so I just let them play until it ends. After that, some other thought(s) occupy my mind, or another song plays.

If it’s an annoying one though? Relax and let it pass like a fart in the wind.

Unless it’s some crappy song, just listen to it on repeat until you grow sick of it.

listen to the end of the song or verse, you probably have the middle bit stuck and you just gotta bring it to a conclusion.

[off topic]

‘The Demolished Man’ by Alfred Bester.

In a future with psychic police officers, a billionaire is planning a murder.

To protect himself from ‘peepers’ he goes to one of his advertising agencies and tricks a writer into playing him the worst earworm known to science.

When he’s around the telepath he just remembers the jingle, over and over.

It’s a sign that you’re not sleeping enough. Catch some Z’s.

I just let it play out in my head and don’t take any action.

Punch myself in the testicles. You’d be surprised how much this can distract you from an earworm.

I will sing it and will try to spread it to other people

I mostly do nothing about it, it eventually goes away. Sometimes however, I feel curious about the song and I listen to the whole song, find out whose song is, if there are more version, look up the lyrics.

It used to bother me but at some point I guess I learned to not care if I get a song stuck. Sometimes it is even fun, I can use it as a conversation starter or stuck it in someone else’s head.

I listen for a bit, then I listen to some tunes with a similar BPM, style, or key. I think, though I’m not certain, that it’s my brain telling me that I need to stimulate it by going new places, hearing new things, doing new stuff, etc. It usually stops when I find something else cool enough to hold my interest.

May I ask, what song you have stuck? I had “Golden” from Kpop Demonhunters such in my head for a few weeks recently but my earworms come from an genres.