Guilty pleasure songs

Country is good in my book.

What can I say"? I'm a southern girl.

Country as a genre I have no problem with, since I grew up on it. The problem is that the genre is becoming so overrun with young guys singing hip hop-influenced songs about hot girls drinking beer on tailgates, and we get some absolutely unlistenable garbage like this:

There are probably fewer than a dozen country songs that I consider so bad that I would turn off the radio when they came on. So for me to be calling a country song "unlistenable garbage" is really saying something.

No, that's Dudebro country. Not normal country. There's all kinds of dudebro music sub genres, but dudebro country is the biggest.

edited 3rd Mar '14 7:22:41 AM by LadyKatie

Dudebro country should be an official subgenre for country.

It probably should be.

I hear the term "bro country" thrown around a lot. It's right up there with "mallcore", "butt rock", or "white guy with acoustic guitar" as a newish, derogatory term for a vague subjective subgenre.

If someone put out a bro country song with some inter-generational appeal, would it be "Bro Country For Old Men"?

To contribute more than a bad pun:

Glam Metal, just in general. It kind of goes hand in hand with my karaoke hobby I guess, because as a whole the genre tends to be fun, easy to sing, and crowd-pleasing.

Call Me Maybe can still count as a guilty pleasure, right? Because if so, that.

Kpop songs particularly from SECRET; I consider it a guilty pleasure just because it is different from what I normally listen to.

Most late-80's and early-90's pop, mainly because I grew up watching MTV during my toddler/early childhood years and it was ingrained into me. I'm more willing to admit to liking it now than I was as, say, a teenager who was into Black Metal at the time.

Here's one in particular.

edited 6th Mar '14 2:56:10 PM by Surenity

God, where do I begin?...

Late 90s Pop music. Spice Girls, Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Aqua, Vengaboys, etc. Totally manufactured and trite, but I enjoyed it as a kid and still listen to it on rare occasions for the nostalgia factor. Except Savage Garden, though I feel no shame for liking them- at least they played their own instruments. And Hair Metal. Once again, really commercial, but try telling me "The Final Countdown" isn't enjoyably, stupidly kickass?

And U2. But not really anything they've done in about the last decade or so. I wouldn't feel any shame for liking them, but so many people hate them...

Without further ado, presenting a cheesy late 90s Pop-Rock song for your... something. Maybe not pleasure.

Here

edited 11th Mar '14 5:00:46 PM by sharkcrap11

I apparently have a thing for 80s cheese. I actually kind of enjoy getting rickrolled, and "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" is enjoyably cheesy too.

"You Spin Me Round" is amazing. The original that is, not the terrible Flo Rida song that rips it off. Also, "Never Gonna Give You Up" has its charms...

80s soft rock like Chicago, Richard Marx, Starship, Toto, and even some Phil Collins. I'd also add Bryan Adams (though i consider him more AOR, at least his 80s stuff), though i do draw the line at Michael Bolton (i own his first album, but thats more as a novelty piece, since this was during his arena rock days).

I like a fair bit of Phil Collins myself. Only know a couple of Toto's song though ("Africa", anyone?), and Bolton's always sounded like he's passing a kidney stone to me...

There's a local station that plays only songs that are at least 10 years old, and they're always the lightest, most inoffensive stuff. I think the "roughest" song I've ever heard them play was "Let Her Cry" by Hootie and the Blowfish, and I like that song.

I actually like Hootie, too. Maybe I shoulda listed that one above.

Eiffel 65 - Your Clown

Even when they weren't being blue or moving their bodies... they still made some prime guilty pleasure tracks. Listen as they try to be serious, and pull it off surprisingly well!

Eiffel 65 were actually pretty good in a cheesy sorta way. Won't argue there.

On a vaguely related note, I was staying at my aunt's house in Toronto the weekend before last with my brother (we were there overnight for a concert) and, since I was in the basement with all her and my cousins' old stuff, I noticed an Aqua tape, and couldn't resist the urge to listen to it. Oh the memories it brought back... And then my brother saw it when he came down to wake me up in the morning. He basically said "Aqua... Huh. Okay." and went back upstairs.

Corny as hell, but very entertaining.

edited 12th Mar '14 4:07:43 PM by sharkcrap11

I always feel kind of guilty when listening to Psycho Killer for some reason. (The part when it starts to feel like a guilty pleasure is the "yayayayayayayayaya" right after "I hate people when they're not polite.")

edited 12th Mar '14 4:50:21 PM by ColonelCathcart

No need to feel ashamed of listening to the Talking Heads- they're amazing.

It's not Talking Heads though, it's just Psycho Killer.

Fair enough I guess, I'll concede that the "yayayaya" part is pretty enjoyably goofy.

If you think their music stands up as worthwhile on its own then don't let other's opinions color your perception of the band. I kind of get why U2 gets a lot of hate, but I don't think that puts them on the level that you should feel shame for liking them. I think a lot of hate they get stem from people hating Bono as a person and having that affect their opinion of the band.