There's something maddening about getting a song stuck in your head; so, this seems like a really important scientific development.

Psychologists at the University of Reading in England just found the best way to get a song out of your head is: chewing gum.

They found that when people chewed gum, the amount of time they "heard" the song running through their head was cut down by 33 percent.

They think gum works because your chewing creates "inner speech". Basically, your mouth moves at a different rhythm than the song in your head, so it's distracting your brain.

The researchers even think the gum technique could work to get other things out of your head –like if you're obsessing over something.