I am enroute to the Airplane. I will be in Seattle before the day ends. So, to pass the time I am curious….
Name a musical guilty pleasure.
I want to hear a song you absolutely love/adore/stop for… loud, sappy, quiet, rap, country.
BUT! The challenge is…it must be a song that you would go out of your way not to admit to. Utter Shame if anyone discovered the secret 🙂
Now is your chance to release your burden. I will post mine after the flight
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BUT! The challenge is…it must be a song that you would go out of your way not to admit to. Utter Shame if anyone discovered the secret 🙂
Doesn’t that kinda defeat the purpose if I’m admitting it here in a public forum? ;o)
Nonetheless, I’ll fess up –
“I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred!
I’m too sexy for my cat
What you think about that? ;o)
I liked this one
For me it wasn’t a must-love.. But it was fun 🙂
Good call 🙂
Black Betty by Ram Jam. Oh, and Family Tradition by Hank jr. I’m such a damn hillbilly.
I JUST had a post about Black Betty! Look back a couple of entries! A kindred soul!!
Gotta admit…
I don’t know a lot about Hank or country in general.
Um…
<whisper>”Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler (the original version). </whisper>
I love this song
This is closet Steinman. It so belongs on Bat out of Hell. Same producer, same sound. Scremaing magickal orchestrated pathos. Absolutely riveting. I couldn’t call it a guilty pleasure. I’m too proud of liking this one 😉
I absolutely detest country but love “Friends in Low Places,” even if it is Garth Brooks.
I didn’t really get into Garth until…
I saw him on Muppets Tonight. He was hell bent on NOT doing country. He did Tom Jones, Kibuki, and finally “If I were a Rich Man”
I really gained appreciation for him as an entertainer at that point.
Re: I didn’t really get into Garth until…
He also has a kick ass gospel Christmas album. Makes holidays with my Catholic mother a little more bearable.
I really love “Even Now” by Barry Manilow and “When I’m with You” by Sherriff.
And if you repeat it, I’ll deny it.
;-P
Repeat it?
You may win the prize when it’s all said and done 😉
Love the icon.
Hilary Duff’s – Why Not? (shoot me please)
I know nothing about Hillary Duff
Is this the cute one you were pointing out?
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*feels ashamed* She is blonde and cute,yes. Please don’t hate me too much.
Um….
I’m so ashamed… Shaggy “It wasn’t Me”
and
Weird Al’s “I’m Fat” (and other various songs on the “Food Album”)
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Any musical artist who picks a name base on a Scooby Doo character… Yeah, I think you’re on the road to guilty pleasure.
Weird Al… People just havce to accept that he has fans 😉
Neil Diamond–Cherry Baby
I will put the hurt on you if you tell anyone.
Oh whoops!
To be honest…
I actually enjoy, “Sweet Adeline”
So no harm here.
I really like the SailorMoon theme song.
I actually love the Japanese Version
I was the biggest SM fan for a while. It was nuts. So I learned the lyrics in Japanese. English lyrics not as much fun because they had nothing to do with the character 😉
As much as my sisters drove me to despise her more than I normally dislike the genre, I have to admit to liking Toxic by Britney Spears…
I will say in my defense that I probably saw the video the first time I heard it, but I like it without the video now…
But is it really a guilty pleasure.
Do you really love the song that much ?
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Well, when I hear it, I make an effort to listen to it, though I try not to look like I am…
Any Barry Manilow and “Slow Dancin'” by Johnny Rivers…
Tell anyone and I’ll rip your ears off. 🙂
I love Barry Manilow! He is underappreciated. “Mandy” is a beautiful love song. Why doesn’t anyone understand?
You too have come close to the prize 🙂
But no one has hit it yet.
“Stayin’ Alive” by the BeeGees. This song makes me get up and boogy. I know this is socially unacceptable (like I care), but I really love the BeeGees. They are incredibly talented guys. So underappreciated! Great songwriters, great performers, great musicians!
I honestly can’t say that I’m ashamed. It’s a little embarrassing, a leftover from my self-conscious youth. But I’ve moved rather beyond shame when it comes to this sort of thing. There’s no song I am ashamed of liking.
When the BeeGees come on, I boogy. I shake it. I dance around in my seat in the car.
Ain’t No Shame!
what are you TALKING about? I LOVE the BeeGees. I had a big time Thing for those Gibb boys in my youth. Had a picture puzzle with them on it and everything.
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They are so awesome! I mean, everything they do just rocks. All the way from acoustic through disco. Everything. They are so underrated, which is too bad, becuase they rock amazingly.
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Absolutely! I LOVE “Staying Alive” and must get up and dance! right on!
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That song is impossible for anyone, with a grain of soul, not to dance to. If you can sit still when Stayin’ Alive is on, you have no groove.
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I love that song “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road,” oops, wait a minute, that’s Elton John…
Ok, really guilty pleasure here….I love an OLD Fleetwood Mac song called “Lay me Down in tall grass and let me do my thing”. It’s the southern girl in me. But I have many, many more guilty pleasures.
They’ve always been sorta take it of leave it for me…
I feel like the classic rock fan in me _SHOULD_ have more appreciation for Fleetwood Mac… But I’ve just never gotten into them.
BTW: Welcome to the journal. How did you stumble across this one?
Ok, I have another….Hey Ya by Outkast makes me get up and do the jig EVERY DAMN time. When I was 9 mo pregnant my baby and I almost busted ass cause I was “shakin it like a polaroid picture”!
I have a lot of shameful guilty pleasures. None that I’m really terribly ashamed of, though.
Brittney, Back Street Boys, The BeeGees, John Denver, Garth Brooks, Neil Diamond, Public Enemy, Hayseed Dixie, almost any 80’s metal hairband rock ballad, Kelly Clarkson, 50 Cent.
All things I get the o_O look for – but all things I’d admit to in a pinch.
Shhhhh!….don’t tell ANYBODY…
Alright, the chance to spill is too strong; I can’t resist anymore….
here goes:
yes folks, we start off with DISCO in general:
“Get Down Tonight” — K.C. and the Sunshine Band
“Disco Inferno”
“Stayin’ Alive” — BeeGees
“Shame” — Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King
then on to:
“Son of a PreacherMan” — Dusty Springfield
“Summer Rain” — Johnny Rivers
ANYTHING by Tom Jones!!!
“Mack the Knife” — Bobby Darin (so hip!)
(“sigh”…okay, I do feel much better now. ….but remember: your lips are sealed!)
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With KC it has to be, “That’s the way (un huh un huh) I like it.” Preferable sung in a bad Japanese accent to really hit the “I rike it” well.
Son of a Preacherman and Mack the Knife (especially Bobby Darin’s) absolutely rock.
I have many, but the biggest is “Close to You” by The Carpenters.
YOU may get bonus points
I absolutely adored the carpenters and I’m ashamed that I’d forgotten about my secret love of their music.
To this day, “Sing” will always get me all kid like and misty eyed.
BTW: Thanks for the compliment on Maeghanne’s pict. Yours is also absolutely stunning. I may have to pursuade you into letting me take pictures of you.
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I may have to persuade you into letting me take pictures of you.
As it happens, I may soon be in need of some new promotional pics!
Oh and the second part of the confession is that I always knew that song was about me. When I was a kid I really, really thought they wrote it about me!
No, no, no. Mine, mine, mine.
They were singing for me 😉
When I get back we’ll make some time (pulled from our buckets of no time) and see what you’re looking for picture-wise. I did a lot of theatrically related shots, (Promotional, head-shots, etc) but Artistically you may prefer‘s work depending.
Ricky Martin: La Vida Loca!
Looks down, kicks at pebble uncomfortably…
Yeah. Yeah. I have that one too.
And depending on my mood it’s just scary.
I can try to rationalize it by commenting how the meter does a beautiful rhythmic break out into 3 out of 4 for the chorus… but that’s reaching.
Sigh.
The Tokens, “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”
Okay, my big one: Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain.” I’m embarrassed by that one because it’s adult contemporary, the most uncool genre ever. And I’m a Gen-Xer, which makes it all the worse.
Milk from Coconuts by Total Kowello (sp? I totally know it’s spelled wrong) sounds just like I Eat Canibals by the same peops. I excuse it for being a duplicate because it’s catchy and fun.
There was another one too. I think it was called Screaming in the Night and I think the band was Krokus but I swear to nothing. I should hunt that one down sometime.