Always there are some songs that I accept as my guilty pleasures. I will always turn up the Black Eyed Peas Let’s get Retarded to full blast. I will always sing along to any song from George Michael’s Faith album (perhaps my favorite album of all time, by the way). And yes, I can cop to a few Christina Aguilera songs I like. I have accepted all of this, and I don’t care if you can’t.
But yesterday something happened that rocked my world (which, by the way, does not take much). I have had this very secret guilty pleasure of a song that I was convinced sung by Ashlee Simpson, though I don’t know why. I accepted that in all it’s horror, though I couldn’t bring myself to admit it out loud. Then after singing along to the song in question on the radio, the DJ comes on and says it’s actually sung by Kelly Clarkson, a former American Idol winner. (The song is Since U Been Gone.)
I am humiliated. I don’t know why exactly. I mean, I guess I have always written off American Idol the show and American Idol the packaged singer. And now I sing along to one of them…
Nikki Mayhew
Perhaps I should feel humiliated that I realized you spelled Ms. Simpson’s name wrong, who in fact, spells her name “Ashlee.” You can’t be getting too lame yet…don’t worry!
🙂
I’ve been guilty of some music purchases/loves that I’ve been to ashamed to admit (*cough*justintimberlake*cough*).
Anonymous
B.Lockett:
Yeah, um…I like that song too but I blame it on being a very musical person and that I can appreciate all types of music…yeah, I actually think it’s because I listen to 107.1 way to much (I can’t afford a CD player in my car). Don’t judge me! LOL
Picular
I can top that I actually downloaded Ms. Clarkson’s song into my I-pod! – Yes, I’m not proud of this fact, but for the past week the chorus of this song has been constantly running through my brain every waking hour, so I decided if I played it enough and at high enough decibles it might actually go away. It’ really not that bad of a song…..and I was surprised something so powerful could come out of American Idol, but then, I’m also a closet American Idol watcher (Go Bo!)
Anonymous
is that let’s get retarded or “let’s get started”?