Thank you for these thoughts... my strategies for alleviating earworms have included:

• Replacing the earworm with a less offensive earworm.
• Creating some kind of beat or music on my own
• Playing the radio or Spotify or whatever
• Just embracing the earworm until it goes away by singing or tapping with it

Strangely enough, and maybe perversely enough I have enjoyed figuring out ways to plant earworms in other peoples heads.

Some tunes just have a great way of sticking to others when you throw them out into the atmosphere. This began years ago when I worked in an office with a fellow and we would alleviate the tedium by planting earworms into each other. I found that humming or singing the first line of a song would set that earworm up in the other fellow.

I hope that doesn't make me sound too sadistic... Cheers.