Why Eastern Rosellas is the perfect earworm
Seven-year-old Miles Phillips and his father Joel created the viral earworm "Eastern Rosellas" while feeding birds at his grandparents' house on Raymond Island. Music cognition researcher Emery Schubert identifies "contiguous repetition"—the exact repetition of a song segment—as key to the track's catchiness. The one-minute thirty-nine-second song has inspired covers from Australian musicians including Ben Lee and Meg Washington.
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Published 01 Aug 2026, 23:13 UTC · Updated 01 Aug 2026, 23:20 UTC
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