Guilty Pleasures
I was driving home from work the other day, and a song came on the radio that I secretly love. I immediately rolled up my windows so that no one else would hear the music coming from my car, and covertly sang along during the times I was alone on the road. A part of me was disappointed that it wasn't dark out because then I could sing a long to my heart's content and no one would notice!
This got me thinking about my "guilty pleasures" - the things I love, but really wish I didn't. I like to flatter myself that I have better taste than this, but apparently, I don't. Then it occurred to me that I am 35, for crying out loud, and really should just get over it. I mean, at this point my "cool cover" has pretty much been blown, and it's not like I have anything to lose, right?
So, here's my list of guilty pleasures. Feel free to mock me at will. I can take it. ;)
Songs:
Movie:
TV Shows:
This got me thinking about my "guilty pleasures" - the things I love, but really wish I didn't. I like to flatter myself that I have better taste than this, but apparently, I don't. Then it occurred to me that I am 35, for crying out loud, and really should just get over it. I mean, at this point my "cool cover" has pretty much been blown, and it's not like I have anything to lose, right?
So, here's my list of guilty pleasures. Feel free to mock me at will. I can take it. ;)
Songs:
- "I want it that way" by The Backstreet Boys I'm not a fan of boy bands in general. They are too manufactured and pretty for my taste. But there is something about this song that makes me want to turn up the radio and sing along every single time.
- "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. Despite all the insane head-shaving, child-endangering antics of recent years, I still love this song.
- "Date Rape" by Sublime. The title of this alone makes we want to hate it, but "Date Rape" is the song that got me into Sublime back in college. It's so wrong, but the way the victim takes control and the rapist gets his due, all to the tune of upbeat ska music, is brilliant.
- Lisa Kleypas' "Wallflower" series. I know they are trashy romance (or as we joking refer to them in my house - "throbbing member" books) but I still enjoy them. And I'm happy to say that the words "throbbing member" or "creamy thighs" are not used once in any of these books.
Movie:
- "A Knight's Tale" with Heath Ledger. From the opening scene where medieval peasants and nobles are pounding out "We Will Rock You" at a jousting match to the celebration dance where the knights and their ladies get funky to "Golden Years" by David Bowie, this movie makes no attempt to stay true to period. Usually this bugs me in a film, but "A Knight's Tale" makes it work in some strange way. Plus, Paul Bettanty as Chaucer has some of the best lines ever. (Ha! Didn't know that Geoffrey Chaucer used to follow around jousting tournaments as a herald, did ya? Or that this is how he got the idea to write "The Knight's Tale" in Canterbury Tales. See, "A Knight's Tale" taught you something new. Even if it's not true.)
TV Shows:
- "Survivor" - It's been on forever now, and things play out in familiar ways each season, but I still find the interactions between contestants highly entertaining. Except for Coach, who's been on this season. Every time he speaks, I feel irritated and want to hurl my remote control at the TV! Yet I can't look away. I want to see him get called out so badly that I keep watching.
- "I love the 80's" or "I love the 90's"or any retrospective show on VH1 really. I generally start watching these shows as "background noise" while I'm cleaning, but soon I am sucked in and cleaning only during the commercials. Nostalgia does it to me every time.
I'm way old enough to not give a damn about others' opinion of my musical taste. So yes, mingled in my Beatles,Temptations, Who, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Sting and Simon and Garfunkel is every one of the Backstreet Boys' CDs.
My music guilty pleasures are "Sexy Back" by Justin Timberlake (because it was on Russian MTV all. the. time when were meeting Oleg and "Gold Digger" by Kanye West. Just because it's fun.
I don't have a book guilty pleasure. I've never been one to ready trashy romance.
Movies: I would have to go with the Kill Bill movies. I'm an action flick girl and these are the worst/best.
TV: ah here's where I take the cake. I loves me some stupit TV. I watch All My Children religiously. I also love Top Model, Make me a Supermodel, Project Runway and anything fashion related. I've also been known to watch Real Housewives, any E! True Hollywood Story and sometimes cheerleading and dance team competitions on ESPN.
I also love "Hit Me Baby One More Time" by Britney Spears. And yes, I feel guilty about it!
My newest guilty pleasure has been Bollywood movies. I have developed a major crush on Shahrukh Khan. The pleasure isn't quite a guilty one though since Kirk actually loves watching the movies with me too!
And let me I admit that I read all of the advice columnists I can get my hands on...
You forgot to mention that you also like some country music! My little girl is growing up!
Well, you know I like Survivor too. And, I think I felt the same way about Coach. Every time he opened his mouth, it was like, "is he for real?!"
I read and LOVED the Traveling Pants Series. I bought the first one at Target for my first Russia trip, looking for something inane and light to distract me with that I hadn't already read. I loved it. I even cried. Then when I got back I stalked the library (youth section - ha!) for weeks trying to check out the rest in the series, 'cause I was too embarrassed to shell out money for the whole series.
Also, sometimes I borrow my daughter's Ipod to work out when mine is not charged, and I have to say, there's some HSM and Jonas Brothers stuff on there that I actually kind of like.
Geez, I think there's a 13 year old girl lurking within me still. Now you've gone and made me embarrass myself and confess all! :)