# Most embarrassing songs on your iPod? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575 "2008-09-08T05:14:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/1 "2008-09-08T05:14:13Z")
Reviving the spirit of the Lost Weekend, what are the song(s) that you have on your iPod/other music player that you secretly like, but would never admit to listening to? Either light pop songs for the serious minded, or dark metal songs for the cheerful, it doesn’t matter. (You first.) 😉 Valete, Vox Imperatoris ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/2 "2008-09-08T05:27:16Z")
I have several songs by T.A.T.U. on mine. Yes, the fake lesbian russian girl duo. I would probably never let anyone see that they are there. The embarrassing part is that I actually enjoy them. My piano teacher and vocal coach would both slap me upside the head for that. ---
**Author:** ![DarRRva](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/53a042/32.png) [@DarRRva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarRRva)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/3 "2008-09-08T07:18:55Z")
The Spice Girls Both High School Musical Soundtracks Every song that Tori Amos has ever released and a bunch of bootlegs - it’s not that I’m embarrassed about liking Tori, it’s just having so much of her is a little cringeworthy. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/4 "2008-09-08T13:21:09Z")
_Play_ by Jennifer Lopez _Steal My Sunshine_ by Len _Holler Back Girl_ by Gwen Stefani _Not Gonna Get Us_ by T.A.T.U. I’m a 41 year old married male with two kids. I generally like good music. I have no explanation for the above. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/5 "2008-09-08T13:24:52Z")
I have three George Jones songs. They are horrifyingly bad, which makes them deliciously good. They are: Wild Irish Rose, Smack Dab and Small Y’all. The terrible rhymes in the last two are particularly juicy. ---
**Author:** ![Labor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/74df32/32.png) [@Labor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labor)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/6 "2008-09-08T14:53:05Z")
Herb Alpert;s Greatest Hits. ---
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/7 "2008-09-08T14:55:12Z")
_Who Let The Dogs Out_, Baja Men. I have no excuse. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/8 "2008-09-08T15:07:29Z")
Achy Breaky Heart. I actually d/l’ed it just to show my kids what Hannah Montana’s dad did in his previous life. ( and you can stuff your "yeah, sure"s; I hate that song!) ---
**Author:** ![Cerowyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Cerowyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerowyn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/9 "2008-09-08T15:17:35Z")
> [@An\_Arky](#): > > I actually d/l’ed it just to show my kids what Hannah Montana’s dad did in his previous life. ( and you can stuff your "yeah, sure"s; I hate that song!) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283724/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283724/) ::shudder:: ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/10 "2008-09-08T15:19:25Z")
I have some Celtic folk tunes that are pretty embarassing. They remind me of my dad’s old records that he used to play when I was really little. So I have a scratchy (scratchy because it was originally recorded in the 1930s) old recording a “Wee Deoch and Doris” and similar stuff that I found on iTunes. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/11 "2008-09-08T16:13:36Z")
I have pirate music on mine (The Toucan Pirates.) And Carpenters. And ABBA. Along with a lot of Misfits, Metallica, GnR, Nirvana, Godsmack, and Rage Against the Machine, ok?? ---
**Author:** ![TNWPsycho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@TNWPsycho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TNWPsycho)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/12 "2008-09-08T16:17:45Z")
My ipod is filled with metal, black metal, nu metal, heavy rock. However i have a couple Elton John and Simon and Garfunkle songs. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/13 "2008-09-08T16:27:51Z")
Sigh. I could find a lot of potentially embarassing stuff in my collection, but the latest one of those to play on my mp3 player(always on random) just might be near the top. I shouldn’t say this but… The theme to ‘Super Nanny’. I’m sorry I can’t help it, but I imagine the person signing it as looking like Jim Carry as Ace Ventura at the mental hospital or Officer Doofy from Scary Movie 1; often I will sing along in character. It cracks me up every time. ---
**Author:** ![5-HT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/f19dbf/32.png) [@5-HT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5-HT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/14 "2008-09-08T18:08:41Z")
I don’t have an iPod, but the most embarrassing song on my Zune is probably “Toxic” by Britney Spears. I can’t help it, I love that song. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/15 "2008-09-08T19:42:08Z")
“Atlantis”, Donovan. I have no idea why it’s there (other than the fact that I downloaded it, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![FlyingCowOfDoom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/flyingcowofdoom/32/21776_2.png) [@FlyingCowOfDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingCowOfDoom)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/16 "2008-09-08T19:54:28Z")
> [@5-HT](#): > > song on my Zune See, it didn’t matter what you said after that. You already win! 😃 Also, probably “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls. –FCOD ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/17 "2008-09-08T20:01:45Z")
> [@TNWPsycho](#): > > My ipod is filled with metal, black metal, nu metal, heavy rock. > > However i have a couple Elton John and Simon and Garfunkle songs. And which ones are you embarrassed about? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/18 "2008-09-08T20:09:05Z")
Miley Cyrus, _See you again._ Am I a 14 year old girl? Nope, I’m male and in my 30s. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/19 "2008-09-08T20:11:15Z")
I just have to say one thing: \*Dale a tu cuerpo alegría, Macarena. . . \* ---
**Author:** ![Small\_Hen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@Small\_Hen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Small_Hen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2008, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575/20 "2008-09-08T20:15:00Z")
Same as last time, **Music of the Night,** sung by David Cook. An Andrew Lloyd Webber song sung by an American Idol winner. There’s just no excuse for that. But I still listen to it when it comes around on shuffle. I don’t know why. **Man Like Me,** by Robert Downey Jr. He’s not a very good singer, and he can’t write lyrics to save his life. But I’ve got a crush on him, so it stays in rotation. I have way, _way_ more Alanis Morrisette songs than I’m comfortable with. **Bostone** , I still love **Who let the Dogs Out?** Oh, and I have a bunch of folky 70’s love balads, but they’re all there because of my sister. Don’t know if that counts. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-embarrassing-songs-on-your-ipod/462575.md?page=2)