My Music Guilty Pleasures - Intro

Hopefully on its way is a rather embarrassing mini-saga of sorts, presenting to you - 'you' being either one of a select few endearingly loyal/half-witted friends or somebody random who has been unfortunate enough to stumble upon this page - rather like firmly stepping into an inconveniently placed and irritatingly well-hidden dog turd - my all time top guilty pleasures. I made this decision based on (other than boredom, obviously...) an earlier post from a couple of years ago in which I barely scratched the surface. In truth, I just rambled on about Jamiroquai a little bit. Yaaaaawn. That's an even more yawny yawn than you might expect to erupt, thanks to an average block of my awkwardly written text. Yes, yawns do erupt. Mine do anyway. I'd initially decided to draft out a top 10 (how original!) guilty pleasures, but this quickly got out of hand. I slightly amended my plans to house an extra 5 songs. Turns out I've settled on double that figure... That's 30, by the way. I CAN DO MATHS, ME. My current reckoning is that I'll neatly chop it up into 3 separate chunks of 10, so not to have to write too much in one sitting. I'm not sure when I'll have finished the list(s) though, as I've not even gotten round to ranking the tracks... And that's where my biggest problem lies. Other than being of Welsh heritage, of course. And being short. And having horrendous hair. The trouble is that I'm a little bit stuck at the moment when it comes to accurately defining what constitutes a 'guilty pleasure', and how one example of such a phenomenon can be weighed up directly against another. I feel as though there's a blend of factors going on. On the whole, it comes down to cringeworthiness (if that's not a word, it bloody is now) - divided up into cringeworthiness that derives from the embarrassing nature of the artist, cringeworthiness that derives from the embarrassing nature of the lyrics, cringeworthiness that derives from the embarrassing nature of the tune itself, cringeworthiness that derives from the embarrassing nature of how different it may be from my ordinary music taste...whatever that is, and cringeworthiness that derives from a whole host of other potentially embarrassing sources. Essentially, it's kinda frickin' tricky to calculate. I'm going to attempt to look at and judge each song on its own individual merits (or lack thereof, I should say) from the estimated perspectives of multiple people - not just my own. For example, a song that may or may not feature is Muse's Undisclosed Desires. I personally quite like it, and obviously LOVE Muse. However, I totally understand that run of the mill Muse is perceived by many to be a pretentious wankfest, and so such a radically different track - considering its dated '80s influences - can only be even more lame. I'm not sure whether it's that I personally don't care that it's a bit lame or that I just don't believe it to be lame at all, but either way it makes a solid claim for my top 30. Comprende? Lovely stuff. Nope? Lovely stuff.

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