Have you ever found yourself listening to a song that you don't listen to often and don't care about much, maybe you think it's overplayed on the radio and you just listen through it to get to the next song... only to find out your brain has memorized the entire lyrics to the song?! Us too.

In this episode, the Educate Your Earbuds team discusses why people remember music lyrics so well, even over other important things. We deep dive on how memory works, why we remember lyrics better so easily, and if some people are able to learn music lyrics better than others! If you're someone who struggles remembering song lyrics, we even have some tips for you to get better at this skill.

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Links:

• https://sites.psu.edu/siowfa15/2015/10/19/why-are-song-lyrics-so-easy-to-memorize/
• https://time.com/6167197/psychology-behind-remembering-music/
• https://www.ajournalofmusicalthings.com/can-remember-song-lyrics-better-almost-anything-else/#google_vignette
• https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-why-you-can-remember-song-lyrics-from-years-ago-204167
• https://blog.push.fm/3167/make-stick-remember-song-lyrics-faster-other-information/
• https://lesley.edu/article/stages-of-memory#:~:text=When%20long%2Dterm%20memories%20form,length%20types%3A%20recent%20and%20remote.
• https://psychology.stackexchange.com/questions/85/why-are-some-people-unable-to-easily-memorize-the-lyrics-to-a-song