Mine is so bad I can barely admit it to strangers online: Justin Bieber, What Do You Mean
Not really “current” because it happened a couple years ago, but I was driving my friend’s teenage daughter home from her granddad’s funeral and (I think it’s One Direction)'s song “What Makes You Beautiful” came on the radio. She cranked it up and started singing along and I was embarrased that I knew all the words and sang along too.
Until about 2 years ago, I was blissfully unaware of most current music, and owned very few CDs or mp3s from after about 1996.
Since my son got old enough to listen to current music, I know and hear a lot more. And while I’m still an old fogey, I actually like a lot of top 40 stuff now. I actually like a lot of Taylor Swift’s stuff. (Shoot me now, someone!)
The only place I’m ever embarrassed by my musical choices is here. Some of you people are real snobs That being said, none of the songs mentioned so far are anything to be embarrassed about. I mean, god forbid you should like the same thing that a bazillion other people like. So I’ll see your Biebs, One Direction and TSwizzle and “admit” to being hooked on Stitches by Shawn Mendes. Yes, he’s extremely Bieber adjacent and I kind of wish I hadn’t watched the video, but damn if that song isn’t crankable.
Yep, she is another guilty pleasure. I get the same feeling from listening to her and her ilk as I do when I eat fast food. I like it at the same time. But am ashamed and self-hating later.
That song is truly hideous! Excellent choice.
It’s not exactly bleeding edge current, but I like it anyway… And I TRIED really really hard to not like it, but I just couldn’t help myself. Ok. I will admit it.
I like “Happy” by Pharrell Williams.
I am so embarrassed.
Lately I’ve grown fond of “Fight Song” by Rachel Platten. It sounds like all the other “uplifting” pop songs, and my daughter thinks it’s hokey, but I still like the message of the song and listen to it when it comes on the radio when I’m at work.
Not “current” but newer. Most of the stuff I listen to is at least 30 to 70 years old. I like several songs by Maroon V and Adele. And Count on Me by Bruno Mars.
A couple years old now, but I like “Call Me Maybe” and Pink’s “Try”.
Read the thread title and this immediately came to mind.
I surprised myself at how much I like this tune.
Perhaps there is a support group for us.
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Not a fan of most dance pop music…unless it comes from Latin America. My two current favorites:
Gente de Zona/Marc Anthony - la Gozadera
I am glad I am not the only one. I feel less alone. I would totally join a support group over this.
Here’s another: Ex’s & Oh’s by Elle King
One of my recent Amazon purchases came with a free MP3 download. I used it to get this song. And I even did that after learning she is Rob Schneider’s daughter.
This one is almost not a guilty pleasure. She is pretty good actually!
Meghan Trainor’s All About That Bass is catchy as hell.
I don’t get it: it’s a fine little pop song. Too much auto-tune/treatment to the voice, but nicely arranged. And a better approach to the “your lips say No but your eyes say Yes” theme vs. Robin Thicke’s rape-ier Blurred Lines.
Yeah, it’s Biebs. He is a twit of the highest order. But it is a fine song.
Taylor Swift does great stuff. When Royals by Lorde came out, it got overplayed, but was obviously a hit from day 1. I have no problem listening to good material and feel no need to be embarrassed for listening to it.
ETA: sorry for coming across as a lecturing d*bag - not my intent. I get the intent of the OP and yeah, I am not ashamed to say I love the song Brandy by Looking Glass and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot and much of ABBA - good music is good music.
I can’t handle this song anymore after hearing some lady at the gym sing the refrain out loud over and over even though she was listening to it through earbuds. shudder.
Wow, WOOKIN, that is truly bad. Okay, maybe there is room for guilty pleasures
Lyrically, that just clanks, doesn’t it?