10 Biggest Earworms Of All Time
9. Hello Goodbye - The Beatles
Some people would probably consider it blasphemous putting such rock icons as the Beatles in the same conversation as Nickelback. They would be right too, considering the dude-bro style of rock and roll pumping out of Kroeger the Ogre is neanderthalic compared to the brilliance of what the Fab Four have given us over the years. They do have one common thread: they do know an annoying hook when they see it.
During their psychedelic period, Hello Goodbye was written as a basic exercise by Paul McCartney to show someone how to write a song...and oh god does it show. Though you can call something like this a breakup song, the whole idea of centering an entire song around two opposites coming together is just silly. Then again, the chorus of this song has that unnerving quality that could keep you up at night if you dwell on it too long.
We all could have been spared of this too, considering John Lennon infamously hated this song and begged for it to not be released as a single. While we could have had something like I Am the Walrus climbing up the charts in the Summer of Love, we decided to settle with some of the biggest '60s schmaltz ever created. Really good schmaltz to be fair...but schmaltz all the same.