Boy is this morning's earworm a tough one to figure out.  I haven't been up on pop music for awhile, especially pop music featuring boy bands.  (And I'm pretty sure that's a good thing.)  Fortunately this earworm didn't feature a boy band, but it was most assuredly pop.  All I have, running around and around in my head, is a distinctly filtered young woman saying/singing "if ya wanna."  

If ya wanna?  What the…. Seriously, how fair is it that my friggin' earworm fills my head with "if ya wanna" sung/said by a female pop star.  And exactly how many female pop stars are there anyway?  Lots, I know.  Or at least I believe.  I know two: Christine Aguilera and Britney.  Wait!  Taylor Swift.  I know her too.  (And let's face it, despite all the CMA awards, Taylor's as much a country singer as Maria Carey is.)  Which now means I also know Mariah Carey, too.  (Much to my chagrin.  I can't stand the multi-octave thing.)

(While I don't know much current pop,
 I'm relieved to find that the artists are relying on their talents.)   

(See previous caption.  Are you even reading the captions?  Get your eyes off their talents!) 

    

Okay, so I know more than a few female pop singers, but, with the exception of Madonna (Madonna!  I also know Madonna), if I were challenged to match a voice with a name, I'd simply embarrass myself.  

There was a time, and it doesn't seem as long ago as it actually is, where I was quite up to date on the happenings of the music scene.  (In other words, I was "hip, man").  Coming of age in the seventies, art wise (meaning film and music) was pretty great.  Radio, both AM and FM,  had pretty open formats in regards to the tunes they played.  It was not unheard of, indeed it was the norm to hear some funk--let's say, The Theme From Shaft ("shut your mouth!")--followed by pop--how 'bout Love Will Keep Us Together--rock--let's jam to some Foghat with Slow Ride… Sinatra (Sinatra gets his own music genre) New York, New York; disco--Love to Love You Baby (I was twelve-years old when it was released.  Talk about perfect timing); and even whatever category you would put the instrumental Popcorn in… You get my point.   Back then, before radio stations collapsed into genre and even sub-genre formats, we were exposed to all kinds of music.

Including pop.  (I'm trying to steer this back to the darn earworm.  I may explore my diatribe on music/radio formats a bit further in later posts.  "If ya wanna.")   

Okay, it's starting to drive me nuts.  Where is that from?  And more importantly, how do I know it?  ("If ya wanna.")

Off the bat, I know the Paul McCartney song If You Wanna (off his terrific Flaming Pie LP, er, CD) and The Ozark Mountain Daredevils tune If You Wanna Get To Heaven, but I'm 100% positive that neither of those songs has a filtered young woman's voice singing/saying "if ya wanna."

A quick Google search (how did we possibly live without Google?) tells me there is a song If You Wanna by a band called The Vaccines; there's a song called The Girl Next Door Salsoul Nugget (If U Wanna) by M&S; and any number of tunes that include "if you wanna" as part of the song's title, but none of them, sampled on Amazon, is the song driving me absolutely BONKERS!  ("If ya wanna").

No sense in going on and wasting your time.  I'll keep searching.  (You better believe I will.  Tinnitus is abysmal; earworms are horrible; not knowing what the damn song the earworm comes from, unacceptable.) I'll keep you posted.  (Hey, a blogging joke.  Get it?  This is a post, and when I post the results of my search, it will literally be posted!  [See?  it's driving me N-U-T-S crazy!])

"If ya wanna," here's a great tune which includes that line.

It's a Long Way to the Top ("If You Wanna" Rock 'n Roll)