The Daily Epic Earworm For November 26, 2025

Everyone gets songs stuck in their heads that just won’t go away. They sneak into your subconscious. They are epic earworms that you find yourself humming uncontrollably, singing in the shower, or tapping the beat to with your foot or ballpoint pen when you should be working. Sometimes they even keep you awake at night. Whether they are current hits, one-hit wonders, movie soundtrack gems, holiday favorites, or songs from your youth, their catchy vocals, riffs, hooks, and choruses seem to linger for days.

Here, those songs find a home, no matter the genre. Here, those epic earworms are revisited, explained, and celebrated. Here, you may find the song that haunts you tomorrow. Here is today’s unescapable song of the day…and the story behind it.

Today’s Epic Earworm: The Beatles — “Yesterday”

“Yesterday” is a timeless Beatles classic that remains as relevant today as it was when it was first released. It won an Ivor Novello Award in the United Kingdom and was selected for the Grammy Hall of Fame in the United States. The song topped the charts in the U.S. and in several other countries worldwide. It was certified platinum in England and gold in the U.S. The lyrics for the song, though, did not come easily for the band.

McCartney’s Fear That He Had Plagiarized The Melody

Paul McCartney was staying with his girlfriend (Jane Asher) in her parents’ house and awoke from a dream one morning with the melody to “Yesterday” in his head. He was worried he would forget it, so he rushed to a piano to play it. As he played the song, he immediately began to worry that he had subconsciously plagiarized someone else’s song. He spent weeks asking people in the industry if they had heard the song before, but no one had. After about a month, McCartney decided that if no one had claimed the melody by that point, he was free to run with it.

What to Do With Those Scrambled Eggs

McCartney went to work trying to write lyrics for the song. McCartney often put in temporary lyrics until he could work out ones that actually fit the song. That would be the case for “Yesterday.” Believe it or not, according to McCartney’s official biography, “Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now,” the song started out with the title “Scrambled Eggs.” The opening verse was initially “Scrambled eggs/Oh my baby, how I love your legs/Not as much as I love scrambled eggs.”

McCartney struggled to find lyrics to fit his melody. He would often sit at the piano on the set of “Help!” and try to work out lyrics, but they just would not come. The director of the film became so annoyed that he threatened to have the piano removed from the set. The rest of the band also quickly became fed up. John Lennon would later claim that every time the band got together to write songs, McCartney would bring out the song.

The Beatles released two albums before the song was actually finished: A Hard Day’s Night and Beatles for Sale. It would be months later before “Scrambled Eggs” would become “Yesterday.” The song was actually offered to English blues rock/soul singer Chris Farlowe, but he turned it down. The Beatles finally included the epic earworm on their Help! album in the UK, but the song was not in the film by the same name. The song was included on the Yesterday and Today album in the U.S.