Jill had a meme up the other day: list the five most embarrassing songs you’ve got on your Ipod. There are both aesthetic and political reasons to be embarrassed, I suppose. At one time or another I downloaded each of these, and a couple have made it on to Friday Random Tens (which will return in September). #5 presents perhaps the greatest assault on good taste among these songs, while #4 is to be lamented for its appalling worldview. But they are all still on my Ipod, and I play them from time to time.
1. “Betty Davis Eyes”, Kim Carnes
2. “Rhythm of the Night”, DeBarge
3. “This is the New Sh*t”, Marilyn Manson
4. “One in a Million”, Guns n’ Roses
5. “Make Me Lose Control”, Eric Carmen
Bonus Embarrassment: “All Cried Out”, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
I love this song.
Maybe this is just because I’ve been an outlier for as long as I can remember, but what’s the point in being embarrassed over something as subjective as musical taste?
If you like something, you listen to it. Anyone who gives you flak can go to hell. Why is that so difficult?
Oh, it’s just because I think most of us still have memories of high school, where the music you listened to was so vital, and your taste became a way of defining your place and your role. It’s immensely silly, of course.
I have ecletic tastes in music and if someone gave me flak about it. I would think them trite and petty and I wouldn’t hesitate to write them off as a borish control freak who needs to get a life. I don’t have an Ipod and my CD player is currently not working, but I’ve invested in a sleepmate which sounds like the ocean surf and I’m glad I did. It soothes me to sleep. Good grief, life is difficult enough without having to deal with a mindless miscreant, fool and idiot with issues over one’s musical tastes.
I took the ‘embarassing’ bit to be tongue in cheek, and as Hugo says a bit of silly fun on a blog. Clearly if Hugo were truely embarassed about this cheesey section of his musical taste he wouldn’t have made it so public. Maybe this take on Hugo’s post is due to my innate British sense of irony… or maybe not. Now I must go and do something constructive!!!
Matey, Yes, I got that from his response to Craig and responded before I saw his explanation. I suppose my intial response is from too much exposure to shallow intolerable narcissists with the annoying habit of turning everything into an opportunity to criticize, mock, ridicule or offer unsolicted opinions. Unlike comedians, they are not being funny…just shallow, insensitive, mindless dolts. I’ve become intolerate of such types and I do know that it’s not about me,etc. Still one has to deal with the behavior and problem. I enjoy British humor, but I’m a bigger fan of the mystery. At least they’ve got the good sense to oft the annoying characters at the onset, leaving the more interesting types for the rest of the story.