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What bands songs do you like that you are embarrassed about? For me it's The National, because despite my love of distortion and fast paced music, I do really like one of the slowest softest bands in rock music today.

Also, if you are one of those people with the whole "don't be ashamed of what you like" philosophies, that's cool and all but that's not the point of the thread.

Can this be expanded beyond music? because most of my guilty pleasures are really from watching shows and playing video games.

I don't swear or talk about explicit stuff IRL, but there are songs I like that I feel embarrassed about liking, such as Offspring's You're Gonna Go Far Kid.

Also, there's some late 90's to mid 2000's pop/teen pop that I like because I listened to it as a kid. Never make a point to find it and listen to it, but I might enjoy it if it was on the radio.

Expand it to three threads: "Guilty Pleasures: Music" (just editing the title of this one), "Guilty Pleasures: Shows" and "Guilty Pleasures: Vidya".

I'm embarrassed to admit I like a Blink 182 song.

Alright, I admit it. I like disco.

Sometimes, when I feel like a moe schoolgirl that has a massive crush on someone, I listen to cheesy pop

emmure.
just.
emmure.

oh, and haftbefehl, but that one i'd never admit that i actually like him, i just say i find his songs hilarious. but maybe that means that i DO like him.

…and blood stain child, but that's a different level of guilty pleasure.

oh, and i actually like that ponpon song. and some MADs
and… uh, i find more and more of those, conceal, don't feel, don't let them know, your taste in music is not very metal at all

I like dubstep, there i said it

i really like ignorant hype rap, i mean is catchy n stuff dispite the fact that is EXACTLY what i hate too (since i prefer backpacker rap) but still cant deny to listen to it.

I sometimes listen to Linkin Park. It makes me feel 12 again.

I'm willing to admit that when I'm feeling down, I'll listen to SmashMouth every now and then.

Sometimes I like to listen to Rene LaVice. Only More Wore though

Not sure if this should go here or vidya but

(for the record, I'm far from being guilty about loving sonic heroes; it's just this song in particular)

I don't even think this counts as "guilty pleasure." I fucking love this song.

I was originally going to say that I didn't have any, but then I remembered this:

Now let me clarify something here: I would never listen to this song intentionally. It's only that when I'm sitting around and it comes on, I'm… okay with it. That's a pretty big fucking accomplishment considering it is both a modern pop song and belongs to genres that I really hate. I have no idea why I don't dislike it- maybe it just has the benefit of becoming a smash hit around the same time that "Fancy" did, which by comparison makes me feel like a combination of blood and cranial matter is slipping out my ears.

Some dupstep is ok. I don't like the really heavy ones, but I've heard a few good ones.

">implying all dubstep artists are brostep":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRpHf4X7FNM

In all honesty, I don't have any guilty pleasures. I'm proud of the music I listen to, even the questionable ones.

Here's a good video regarding guilty pleasures.

Here's another great video on the idea, made by Todd in the Shadows. The whole review is essentially a audiovisual essay on how you can like something but have absolutely no fucking idea why, and even revile it at the same time.

In another video he said that if he ever calls a song a "guilty pleasure" of his, he doesn't really mean that it makes him guilty (because that would be stupid), but that he cannot find a real reason to defend his enjoying it.

I listen to Owl City, "Post-grunge" Rock now and then, and if I am just really really bored;Crush 40

Hey, I'm usually by myself when I listen to music, I don't have any reason to worry what other people will think of some of the "low culture" parts of my taste in music, So I don't really care.

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I view death grips as my guilty pleasure because it makes me look lie a /mu/tant.
I also enjoy Tyler the Creators first 2 albums (the ones with rape and murder :V) and the classics by Aphex Twin.

I like Kanye

I'm sorry

@ProjectENDO

and why is that bad? kanye is a very talented producer and decent rapper.

kanye isn't that bad.

As a musician, he is very talented. I think the main problem is his ego and personality at times can be terrible.

As for me and guilty pleasures, I don't have any…If I like the music, I like it.

I'm not even sure if this is a guilty pleasure, or just a silly song that I love.