Note to self
Googling the piece of music that’s stuck in your head will not unstick it. If anything, giving in to the impulse to Google for it will make the earworm twenty times worse.
Damn you, Léo Delibes, you and your ubiquitous duet.* Also, please get out of my head now. OK? [clutches skull and whimpers]
* Not only is it the British Airways theme, it appeared in an episode of The L Word I was watching the other night, hence the earworm. (Hmm. I wonder if I could ever get myself hired as Overeducated Culture Consultant on that show? "The Anne Carson references were rather a good idea. But Lakme? I don’t care if you’re slyly alluding to that scene in The Hunger, try something baroque with lots of mezzos in drag instead!" And that would probably be when they’d hire someone else. Oh well…)
Oh, I hate earworms, and believe me; I know the frustration.
I wish they would put The L Word on iTunes, just so I could get it. I’m awfully curious about the references.
You can sometimes find episodes on YouTube, though I haven’t checked lately. I’ve been catching up with the DVDs.