10 Biggest Earworms Of All Time

Every now and again, there are songs that just shouldn't really become hits. Not because they aren't good or anything...it's just that they shouldn't really deserve to be on the same level as the rest of the music that's happening at the time. The charts work in a mysterious way though, and we must have reached a new low by putting an actual cheerleader chant on the hit parade with Mickey.

That's not to disparage the resume of Toni Basil either, with the song itself being a pretty nervy piece of new wave on the same level as something like Elvis Costello. When it got put in her hands though, it became one of the cheesiest one hit wonders of the '80s over time, complete with the cheerleader chant that seeps into your brain every time you hear it.

For as much as this may have been trying to capitalize on the naivety of the high school demographic, the ever present chanting is enough to get on your nerves in the first five seconds. It doesn't help seeing the video either, as Basil hams it up while doing some pretty impressive choreography in the background. Even though this remains an absolute staple of the early days of MTV, the real pity here is that Mickey manages to hit every sour note in the book.