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X Factor guilty pleasure
Posted by musters on 25 November 2011 - 10:37am.
The X-Factor (I'm given to believe) have a theme every week and this week it’s “Heroes and Guilty Pleasures”. It’s difficult to imagine what would constitute a musical guilty pleasure for an X-Factor contestant. Led Zeppelin? Bob Dylan? Rachmaninov?
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Personally, I don't think the contestants are the ones who should be sneered at.
Besides, their average age is about 22, how many kids of that age do you know that like Zeppelin / Dylan & Rachmaninov?
True.
And if their heroes were people like Dylan, Zeppelin etc then they're unlikely to be attracted to Cowell's bandwagon.
Guilty pleasure
Here are Simon Cowell's Desert Island Discs
1. Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife
2. Herb Alpert - This Guy's in Love with You
3. Charles Aznavour - She
4. The Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody
5. Wayne Newton - Dankeschoen
6. Daniel Bedingfield - If You're Not the One
7. Frank Sinatra - Summer Wind
8. Sammy Davis Jr. - Mr Bojangles
With that lot what then would constitute a guilty pleasure ? Modern pop music he actually likes ? (Obviously, the whole concept is a nonsense.)
Guilty pleasures
When will this ridiculousness end?
When will *this* end
Guilty pleasures is a concept almost everyone understands. Get over yourself.
Aggressive
Thanks for that. And look at all your up arrows! Well done!
While I'm busy 'getting over myself', I'll just say as a concept it's absurd. Sure, eveyone knows what it is, but why can't it just filed under 'music' instead of 'music you're apparently too embarrassed to admit you like'?
I simply don't get it I'm afraid.
Nothing says guilty
Nothing says guilty like sharing it on a website of hundreds of people, easily searchable by millions, none of whom you've ever met.
Yes, I'm Alex. I have both Hear'Say albums on my iPod. So what? That's not a guilty pleasure. Surely a guilty pleasure is something you do in the secrecy of your own home, not sharing it with anyone else, like having a good poo or a wank - guilty pleasure, but no one needs to know about it.
Yes,
when does guilty pleasure become 'poor taste'.
Sorry, I didn't mean to appear aggressive
And I'm surprised as anyone by the up arrows. I thought all Wordsters subscribed to the 'no such thing as a guilty pleasure' thing, hence my exasperated response.
But yes, I think guilty pleasures are something most of us can relate to, however irrational they may be. I love the new Cher Lloyd single, but if I had it on my iPod on the bus, I'd feel a bit embarrassed about the person next to me knowing I was listening to it.
...especially if they'd read
your OTT attack on her for Swagger Jagger!
Haven't you got burglars to be cuddling?
I'm not going to dignify that
with a reply............. D'oh!
My mind is boggling
What on earth could Louis Walsh consider a guilty (musical) pleasure?
Music
written and played by a group of talented, independent minded souls.
Judges
I'm told (again, absolving myself from any personal knowledge of the matter) that "it's the judges rather than the contestants that pick the songs, so it's Tulisa's, Gary Barlow's and Kelly Rowland's guilty pleasures we have to consider".
Further "Louis Walsh doesn't get to pick cos all his Over-25s are out", whatever that means.
Agree with the above comment. It's not the contestants we should be sneering at. It's the judges. But mostly the viewers.
Actually last year
when they did Guilty Pleasures week someone DID sing Led Zep (Whole Lotta Love).
A thread full of people
discussing something they claim to neither know or care about.
Gotta love the aul internet.
Oi!
Can't speak for the others here but I find X Factor utterly compelling.
As do I....
but there are a hell of a lot of other people discussing it whilst professing not to know or care about it.
Besides, it was a tongue-in-cheek comment, you can pop your oi back in.
T'was an equally tongue in cheek 'oi'
.
Was hoping you'd say that...
What a lovely pair of oi's :)
Fingers crossed
They do an ensemble performance of 4min33...
ATM : Guilty Pleasures
Can I just say for the record that Danny Baker has said - on more than one occasion - that he doesn't understand the concept of Guilty Pleasures. Ok?
Can't we just drop it now already?
Thank you.
Why?
...just cos Danny has said it?
Must admit
I think the idea of Guilty Pleasures is quite fun and as someone who used to frequent Sean Rowley's Guilty Pleasures Disco nights back in the day - one that I have fond associations with (Not to mention fondling associations but that's another story)
Guilty Pleasures
I know what Danny and others are getting it when they deride the concept of guilty pleasures. You should like what you like and that's that. But surely only within reason. Certain standards must be maintained. You can't go listening to any old shite sine culpa. That wouldn't be good.
And who gets the job...
... of ensuring said standards are maintained? Can I do it?