Real Actual Guilty Pleasures

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

More a mid-week topic this. I mentioned elsewhere (wrt Merritt and zip-a-dee-doo-dah) that it has only just occurred to me that there really is a category of "Guilty Pleasures" - just not the latest gutless variation on "so bad its good". There can be music you really like, but for some reason the song is actually morally wrong or tainted. And not in the indie ("S club Juniors that's so wrong") or mirror-indie ("all indie boys can't sing they should all die"*) sense. The only good example I can think of right now is

Gary Glitter.

I love you love. Leader. SMASHing, real fun songs. Sung by a man with a twisted brane of badness cubed. (Of course there is a whole vein of pa3d0 british pop which we can take as read here.) But what else is there? Anybody here enjoy fascist/nazi/racialist music? dancehall homophobia i suppose. wot sa u?


(* naming no names, cos we're done with that, right?)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

with shabba (and a lot of ragga) the "ideology" of the words-as-lyrics is NOT in sync with the "physical ideology" of the mode of word-delivery or the ideology of collective dance itself -- hence simultaneous attraction and repulsion

and opting for one OR the other as the "pure truth" of the song sorta kinda misses the conflicted essence (i first wrote "point" there, which assumes shabba would see things my way here, but maybe he wouldn't at all -- however HIS justification of the song's politics isn't and shouldn't be definitive)