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

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

xenophobic perhaps...

he is so full of coke he doesn't know where he is...

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

If you go down this path - taking Justin seriously - then don't you have to take Ozzy et al's Satanism as well? It seems pushing the envelope, although perhaps it's not fair to compare such a short career with longer (and more successful) ones.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

True. He was the most recent one I can think of though - the interviews he's done re: his world cup song have seen him make an Utter T0ssp1ece of himself.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i'm more reminded of the GOSH AREN'T WE CONTROV antics that surrounded the manics about the third single into the "gold against the soul" campaign, when they appeared to be pretty much down and out.

i can't see justin coming back with a holy bible though somehow...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Xenophobic, yes (stand corrected).

A mild case perhaps but still quite morally queasy for me. I don't usually have trouble listening to records by ppl who are Utter Cvnts but if the record is bad as well it magnifies the cvntiness of the artist...