Guilty Pleasures?

cmi0616 · Mar 17, 2011

C'mon, we've all got them. You know you love listening to that song on the subway, even though you turn your headphones down just a little in case anyone hears

For me, it's gotta be Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill album. I swear to you I am a completely heterosexual man, but that album gets me every time. Lord, I hope I don't actually know anyone here on AW

So anyways, share em if you dare!

Amadan · Mar 17, 2011

I have a playlist called "Guilty Pop" which is full of brainless but catchy tunes from the 80s 'til now. Everything from Samantha Fox to a couple of anime soundtracks.

Caitlin Black · Mar 17, 2011

Pop Goddesses are my guilty pleasure.

On my mp3 player I have:
Madonna
Lady Gaga
Katy Perry
Rogue Traders
The Veronicas

All are pretty pop-y sort of music. And yes, when they come on my mp3 player when I'm on the bus, I try to be inconspicuous. It's such a big change from the death metal I usually listen to!

But I do love me some Pop Goddesses.

Switch-Phase · Mar 17, 2011

I uh.. I still like Linkin Park. The first two albums, anyway.

Devil Ledbetter · Mar 20, 2011

In 2004 Chuck Klosterman wrote a great column on the concept of guilty pleasures. I think he's right.

Let's say I considered this program [The Ashlee Simpson Show] a guilty pleasure, and let's say my desire to watch Ashlee explain how her boyfriend ruined Valentine's Day was something I needed to apologize for. Wouldn't this imply that The Ashlee Simpson Show was my conscious alternative to something better? Wouldn't this suggest that—were I not watching The Ashlee Simpson Show—I would be working on logarithms, or studying the liner notes of out-of-print jazz records, or searching for factual errors in The Economist?

Read more: http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1104-NOV_AMERICA-2#ixzz1H950nIiC

ConChron · Mar 21, 2011

Black Eyes Peas, Sean Paul and Timbuktu.

DVGuru · Mar 22, 2011

cmi0616 said:
For me, it's gotta be Alanis Morrisette's Jagged Little Pill album. I swear to you I am a completely heterosexual man, but that album gets me every time. Lord, I hope I don't actually know anyone here on AW

Hmm. I never felt ashamed listening that album. It came out the summer before my sophomore year of high school. My friend and I ran out to buy it after hearing "You Oughta Know." We were pretty hardcore listeners of grunge and hip hop and didn't think twice about buying it. Great album. Still one of my favorites from the 90s. Flea and Dave Navarro from the Red Hot Chili Peppers actually played on "You Oughta Know."

Anyway, I've been streaming a lot of 90s pop on my phone while at work. Mostly for nostalgia. I wouldn't have admitted it at the time, but I liked some of the late 90s pop like Britney Spears. It takes me back to my high school years listening to it now. Even though I stream and don't actually own the music, I still find myself turning it down sometimes when people walk by my office.

soapdish · Mar 22, 2011

*sigh* Mine is 3OH!3. I am sure I've just lost all of my female friends now. I am alternately fascinated by how...misogynistic they are...and entertained at the same time. I disgust myself. :e2bummed:

So much so, I'll probably come back and delete this later :tongue

poetinahat · Mar 22, 2011

I've learned to play and sing Puff the Magic Dragon for the kids, but I still can't get through it without choking up. It makes me sad like no other song can.

But I don't feel guilty about that.

The other things people would call guilty pleasures, I call unfairly judged. Like ABC's The Lexicon of Love ("Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love"), RuPaul's Supermodel of the World, and Beavis and Butthead.

I'm probably more 'guilty' over not liking some bands that everyone else thinks are unimpeachable classics, like The Doors and Queen. (Some of their songs are good, but I really don't enjoy listening to a whole album.)

Shadow_Ferret · Mar 22, 2011

I don't feel guilty about anything I like and don't understand the concept of guilty pleasure.

If I like it, it's good. Period.

BigWords · Mar 23, 2011

Toto Coelo; The Banana Splits; Napoleon XIV; Alvin And The Chipmunks...

So many things I like which I know a sane person should never admit to liking.

Niti Newtfinger · Mar 23, 2011

Tee hee. 90s pop is my guilty pleasure. Backstreet Boys and Britney Spears in particular, especially when I'm out for a run. I guess I like the beat.

ShapeSphere · Mar 31, 2011

poetinahat said:
ABC's The Lexicon of Love ("Poison Arrow", "The Look of Love")

That was a great album from 1982. Still sounds good today. Crisp production (thanks to Trevor Horn aka Buggles) and amazing melodies.

I'm of the same opinion as Shadow Ferret and I feel guilty about nothing. I just love music.

On my playlists; Abba sit by ACDC, Barry White by Bauhaus, Chemical Brothers by Chitty Chitty Bang Bang OST, etc.

Anyway, here's a current fave (the video being better than the music): Alizée - J'en Ai Marre (I'm Fed Up)

Strychnine · Mar 31, 2011

Taylor Swift u.u

Bryan V · Apr 9, 2011

Evanescence and Inkubus Sukkubus are my guilty pleasures. If anyone knew I listened to them, though, they probably wouldn't care. I'm already labeled a freak with my friends.

Guilty Pleasures?

cmi0616

Amadan

Caitlin Black

Wild one

Switch-Phase

Devil Ledbetter

Come on you stranger, you legend,

ConChron

DVGuru

Plays too many video games

soapdish

writing

poetinahat

Numbers are beautiful

Shadow_Ferret

Court Jester

BigWords

Geekzilla

Niti Newtfinger

ShapeSphere

Hello, Hooray

Strychnine

Bryan V

New Thick; Learning About Fish Skin