New category: Guilty Pleasures

Yes I know we all have these, and for the most part we don’t talk about them.  But there is something illuminating, even endearing about knowing how silly people are sometimes.

So with that introduction, here is my Guilty Pleasures Confessional for this month: I am now a huge Natasha Bedingfield fan… huge I tell you.

Natasha Bedingfield

I am not sure how anyone who loves music could not be a huge fan of this brit, she can sing, my gawd can she sing, and her writing while not inspired is interesting and approaching clever.

Here are just a few of the lyrics from her single ‘These Words’ which is getting pretty massive radio play right now:

Read some Byron, Shelly and Keats
Recited it over a Hip-Hop beat

I’m having trouble saying what I mean
With dead poets and drum machines

I know I had some studio time booked
But I couldn’t find a killer hook

Now you’ve gone & raised the bar right up
Nothing I write is ever good enough

Not to mention the music is hot.  Add this all together and you get a really fun album. Well worth your money.

I am not a big fan of memes, but I think that it would be interesting to see what each of us would consider a ‘Guilty Pleasure’ since to me it might not be, and so on.  If you decide to reveal your own GP, please let me know through a comment here, or a track/pingback.

  1. personal avatar David
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    March 1, 2007

    Oh man…

    Shania Twain (to the tune of four albums)
    Girls Aloud
    Britney Spears
    Ashlee Simpson
    Kelly Clarkson

    There goes any credibility my taste in music had…

  2. personal avatar Aaron
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    March 1, 2007

    Crap, I know this is going to haunt me… I like Natalie Imbruglia.

  3. personal avatar DrBacchus
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    March 1, 2007

    Well, I guess my guilty pleasure is that I like Waylon Jennings. I know, it’s shameful, but there you have it.

    *Ah*, yes, a little confession is indeed good for the soul.

  4. personal avatar Chris J. Davis
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    March 1, 2007

    Well thanks Joen. I find that a little confessional now and then is good for the soul.

  5. personal avatar Joen
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    March 1, 2007

    I salute your honesty.

    I too, have guilty pleasures. They’re called Civilization 3 and Age of Mythology. Oh, and New Order.

  6. personal avatar Jared
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    March 1, 2007

    I’ve been listening to Ashlee Simpson. I didn’t see that one coming.

  7. personal avatar Mathias
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    March 1, 2007

    Thank God I’m not the only one on this planet who sneakily enjoys Natasha Bedingfield… Some other guilty pleasures of mine would probably be Kylie Minogue and Justin Timberlake. Muhahahaa, I know.

  8. personal avatar John
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    March 1, 2007

    Natasha’s songs, true, are not the best written. But you are so very write, the woman can sing! She sang Ain’t Nobody, a duet with her brother Daniel at the Brits this year and they were amazing. Still lovw watching the video clip. No lip syncing for her. She also happened to look very sexy. Another song of hers I like is I Bruise Easily. The video is great too.

    Guilty pleasure? Sugababes.

  9. personal avatar Indranil
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    March 1, 2007

    *drools*

    Great category. My guilty pleasures are Shania Twain and Shakira (I know).

  10. personal avatar Avinash
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    March 1, 2007

    Heh, I forgot about some of the songs mentioned here that I like: Since U Been Gone and Toxic, heh.

  11. personal avatar Michael Heilemann
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    March 1, 2007

    If nothing else, a good category to have. My guilty please, Toxic with Britney.

  12. personal avatar David
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    March 1, 2007

    wow. she’s pretty talented

  13. personal avatar Mark
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    March 1, 2007

    …ahh someonelse who finds Natasha Bedingfields’ music quality listening.

    I also have to confess to liking Kelly Clarkson.

    There I said it.

  14. personal avatar Avinash
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    March 1, 2007

    My Guilty Pleasure would probably have to be “Cry Me A River” by Justin Timberlake. Don’t like anything else of his, but that song is pretty good.

  15. personal avatar Hafiz Muhtar
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    March 1, 2007

    Hi. I read your blog for quite some time now, but had nothing to say.. until now.. My guilty pleasure is watching Gilmore Girls.. heck.. i even named my iPod “Rory” and my Powerbook “Lorelai”.. (hhmm.. i hope i won’t regret announcing this here )

  16. personal avatar Scott
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    March 1, 2007

    I must say, I’m a fan of “Since U Been Gone” by Kelly Clarkson.

  17. personal avatar A. Nonymous Rex
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    March 1, 2007

    Try the movie “The Princess Diaries”, and the song “Total Eclipse of the Heart”

  18. personal avatar Noiseputty
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    March 1, 2007

    My guilty pleasure is Fergie. I can’t believe those stupid hooks she comes up with. “London Bridge”, dang, that actually catchy. No, stop, brain!!! I must resist. Mind going. IQ slipping away!!! Sanctuary!!!

    Her and Gwen Stefani will single-handedly bring back mindless bubble gum pop.

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