This topic is sort of open to interpretation… it is NOT about guilty pleasure songs, because we already covered those in a previous one. I guess it just means a song that triggers a feeling of guilt in you for whatever reason you may have.
For me it’s songs about much younger women, which have a long and skeevy tradition in popular music. They don’t hit close to home in any kind of personal experience for me, but they still trigger a guilty feeling, because even if it’s a catchy song can you really sing along to it safely? In that vein here’s The Records - Teenarama. They were a short-lived new wave/power pop band that should be better known, although I don’t know if this is a good song through which to be introduced to them. Love the snarling guitar sound and the way all the rhythm breaks make the song so dynamic, but those lyrics… :eek:
There isn’t much in life that makes me feel guilty, least of all a song. I don’t even know how a song could do that. I’ll have to think about this one.
So many songs that objectify women. Unfortunately, there’s a lot of it in probably my favorite genre, classic rock, although I think rap is much worse.
Some songs by Peter Gabriel make me think about trying to be more active in helping people.
Wallflower is about being a prisoner of conscience in a prison cell and how they try to break you, but hold on. And of course Biko is about the beating death of anti-Apartheid activist Stephen Biko and how important it is to pay attention and call out what you are seeing.
[QUOTE=Peter Gabriel]
You can blow out a candle
But you can never blow out a fire
Once the flames begin to catch
The wind will blow it higher
[/QUOTE]
No. A guilty pleasure is something like a cloying pop tune that you like anyway, like Cake By the Ocean by DNCE.
AC/DC songs can be misogynistic. It’s like listening to Buckcherry’s song Lit Up - I love it’s Big Dumb Rockness, but it’s a reprehensible high-five endorsing drug use. Guilty, not guilty pleasure.
It’s one of the songs I can sing and play at the same time, but I don’t play it very often these days. I know that forgiving others is the only way to get along in this world, but there have been times where I’m just not able to.
Agreed. But with that song, it is far from one of their best, so I almost never waste my “Beatles Listening Units” on that song.
I listen to the Buckcherry song and damn if I don’t rock out every time. But it really is a piece of shit song. They have another song called Crazy Bitch which is much more like Run for Your Life - just not good enough to overcome its own repulsiveness.
I’ve always looked at it the same way I look at violence in kid’s cartoons.
It’s make believe, a fantasy.
Just like a kid isn’t going to watch Jerry smash Tom in the face with a trash can lid and go out and bash one of their friends, a man can listen to classic/hard rock or rap and not treat women like hoes.
I’d rather hear this then sappy crap like ::shudder:: * Mandy*.
