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BaD 08: WOMiP Week!: The Shame List


On 02/12/2014 at 12:15 PM by goaztecs

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Linked to Article Series: Blog a Day (BaD) 2014

It’s Wednesday, Pixlbit folks! Last night I watched my Aztecs drop a rare loss, but hey better to have your worst game of the year in February than in March. I think they will drop out of the Top 5 in the country but stay in the Top 10. Not bad for a rebuilding team. Anyways for today’s What’s On My iPod, I decided to focus on something we all have, but don’t really talk about. When your friends ask “What’s your Top 10 Favorite Songs” you give out your list of favorite songs, most likely sprinkled in are Beatles, Led Zeppelin, 2 Pac, etc., but deep down you know you’re holding back. You have those songs that are either so embarrassing or so terrible people will give you their puzzled look face. Yes Pixlbit I’m talking about your favorite Guilty Pleasures songs. Songs that are so terrible you usually only sing along with them in the shower when nobody is home. Songs that are so bad you go from singing as loud as you can in the car, until another car drives up and you try to look like you’re covering a crime.

We have different names for this list, but I’m a little straight forward with mine and simply call it IN A BOOMING VOICE The Shame List. For today’s blog I would like to showcase 10 of the songs on my Shame List and give a rating on it’s shamefulness and a sentence or two why I like that song. Sound good? Well let’s get this party started!

 

Divinyls – I Touch Myself

 

Yeah a grown man singing this while driving will get odd looks.

Shame Meter:

 

Hilary Duff – Come Clean

 

A more recent of the shame songs, Come Clean owns is shameful because not only is it’s from Lizzy McGuire herself sang it, but it was also the theme song for Laguna Beach…a bad MTV “Reality” Show that I also watched.

Shame Meter:

 

Kristen Chenoweth – Popular

 

I have no idea how this song got stuck in my head because I’ve never seen the Musical.

Shame Meter: No Shame, it’s a good song!

 

Uncle Luke – The U

 

I’m not a Miami Hurricanes fan, never went to Miami, there’s really no substance to this song, but when ESPN did their 30 for 30 on The U, and later Jim Rome always playing it when talking about The U, it stuck

Shame Meter:

 

Colbie Caillat – I Do

 

Yeah this got a lot of play when I had my iTunes on my old laptop (at least 50 times, very shameful). It’s catchy, and quickly got stuck in my head (did I mention it’s a good song?)

Shame Meter:

 

Paris Hilton – Stars Are Blind

 

Oh this could be the ultimate in Shame Songs. I don’t think she’s even singing, or if she is someone in the studio is one hell of a magician. Oh this song got stuck in my head.

Shame Meter:

 

Katy Perry – California Gurls

 

C’mon every Shame List should have at least one Katy Perry song.

Shame Meter:

 

Candy Flip – Strawberry Fields Forever

 

This song isn’t bad, but the reason that it is on my Shame List, is because I prefer this version over the Beatle’s original *waits for boo’s and hate mail

Shame Meter:

 

Gloria Estefan – Here We Are

 

This is a relatively new addition to my Shame List. It happened while driving into town and it came on the radio. One of the local radio stations played it, and I started mumbling the words. Soon I was getting a bit too animated for a Gloria Estefan song so it’s here.

Shame Meter:

 

Hoku – How Do I Feel

 

This is such a bad pop song. “You were eating a Burrito” is one of the first lyrics you are hit with and it is what some folks call this song. Who knew she is Don Ho’s daughter?

Shame Meter:

 

So there you have it Pixlbit, 10 songs from my Shame List. You have any shameful songs? This is a judge free zone…yes even if I thought an 80s version of a Beatles song is better than the original *ducks out of the way of flying objects. Have a good one Pixlbit!

 

That’s all for now, more later!

-Chris


 

Comments

mothman

02/12/2014 at 12:24 PM

No one expects the Beatles Inquisition!

*drops anvil on Chris's head*

Now you must do 10 Our Ringos and 100 Hail Judes. yeesh, that was BaD.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/12/2014 at 01:08 PM

He has to play out of the pocket ten times?

mothman

02/12/2014 at 01:32 PM

No He has to play Octopus's Garden 10 times

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:42 PM

I should have known the Beatles Inquisition was coming! I'll start on the Our Ringo's ASAP.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

02/12/2014 at 12:36 PM

damn dude, that was some serious shame! 

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:43 PM

Yup, and there is more, much more...

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/12/2014 at 01:07 PM

I understand liking the Hoku video, but not the song. 

Gloria Estefan is making me think I'm in a dentist's office. 

Don't hear anything wrong with the Candy Flip song, but the video is very awkwardly 90s (at least Wikipedia says the single charted in '90). 

As for Katy Perry, yeah I do like "California Girls" and I liked "I Kissed A Girl." I watched her documentary with my ex, she used to sound just like Alanis Morisette before getting famous. I'm not big on any of her new stuff, though. I really wish I were that ginger bread man ...

The Paris Hilton video makes me think of Phoebe from Friends and her Smelly Cat video where she was dubbed. Hell, it was even black and white I think. Too bad Paris isn't as charming or sexy as Lisa Kudrow. 

Colbie Collait's song used to come on Song Pop all the time. I think it's catchy and feel no shame for liking it, too. She sounds like a classy lady. 

I like the Miami song, it reminds me of the 90s. Also of an old rap song with nonsense lyrics Dr. Drew once imitated on Loveline ... "my giz, my gizzard, my giz a liz a lie" or something like that. 

I'm a bit turned off by the voice in "Popular." As far as musicals though, I have no shame at all listing Les Miserables' "Do You Hear The People Sing" from the recent film version as one of my favorites of all time. 

I didn't realize I knew "Come Clean," but I do like that catchy chorus ... the verses not as much. Her voice is a bit weak, in my opinion. Not that I can talk, but, y'know. Plus, I love rain, so there's that.

As for Divynils, I find everything about that woman, song, and video sexy, even if it does sound like her voice is cracking at times. Redheads. 

Instead of a shameful song, how about a shameful artist? I own The Long Road by Nickelback and still kind of like some of their older stuff ... anything past "Photograph," not so much,  but I do like this song: 

Fun Fact: I had an old Canadian camp counselor tell us that she faceplanted at one of their shows before they were famous trying to crowd surf, and they asked her if they could thank her and take a picture with her for their album should they ever make it big. She refused. 

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:50 PM

I think what gets me with the Hoku song is that I associate it with Radio Disney, and that alone earns it a spot here

Wow didn't know Katy was like Alanis. I like Alanis, and that would have been interesting to listen to

Good call with Nickelback. They were really big at one point and then I remember folks (like myself) just turning on them.

Super Step Contributing Writer

02/14/2014 at 01:33 AM

Song starts at :30

mothman

02/12/2014 at 01:40 PM

My God, someone post something after Joe Step's post so I don't have to look at Chad Kroeger's stupid face while I'm writing.

Oh, I just did. It's not long enough though.

 

Here's The Archies with Sugar Sugar!

Still not long enough.

Ok then Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips

 

 

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:51 PM

Ha! I own an Archie's Greatest Hits CD, and I have to agree about it being shameful

I was never big on Tiny Tim. It was the voice

mothman

02/13/2014 at 08:11 PM

I just put both of them in for comic relief. :)

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 09:06 PM

Haha, nice Smile

C.S.3590SquadLeader

02/12/2014 at 02:45 PM

That's certainly a list of shame. I don't have stuff I'm ashamed of on my iPod, but my CD collection is rife with shame. Not that I'd ever show that off anytime soon.

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:51 PM

You have to add some of those shameful CDs to your iPod. Everyone needs a good dose of shame on their music players Tongue Out

leeradical42

02/12/2014 at 04:50 PM
Ha ha so wheres the Go Gos our lips are sealed lol thats a truly shameful list.

goaztecs

02/13/2014 at 07:53 PM

Oh I love the Go-Go's, that was one of the bands I grew up listening to...but I could see singing along to Our Lips Are Sealed being reason enough to be added to The Shame List.

KnightDriver

02/15/2014 at 03:05 AM

Me it would be "Do You Remember" by Phil Collins. That song gets me every time but it's so sappy.

goaztecs

02/18/2014 at 12:43 PM

Hot damn, I haven't heard this song in forever. I just went to check on my iTunes because I bought his Greatest Hits awhile back and it isn't on there. Looks like iTunes is about to gett another $1 from me. 

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