Music you are ashamed of liking

Honorable mention

You can never be ashamed of music.

I’m definitely ashamed of having this on my iPhone @R2

One of the best things about not having a singing voice or knowing how to not play a musical instrument is that I can appreciate and enjoy most music genres.

I hate that I always sing along to this song when it comes on the radio

I still love her voice!

That is a fabulous song OP and you have absolutely shitty taste being ashamed of it.

Anything by Electric Light Orchestra.

Anything by Modern Talking. Love their music, but don't want anyone to see me listening to it.

I personally love Journey 0P they’re awesome!

I'm rarely ashamed of my musical choices- because I have no shame, not because I have highbrow tastes. However, I do sometimes cringe inwardly as I pull out my Physical CD by DL fave Olivia Newton John.

This is pretty much a perfect pop song.

My secret shame

[quote] One of the best things about not having a singing voice or knowing how to not play a musical instrument is that I can appreciate and enjoy most music genres.

This is actually quite profound and true in my experience. Those who are singers or musicians tend to be more snobby in their tastes or at least more ashamed to admit to liking music without any particular ambition. I remember reading Steve Perry of Journey saying he was a fan of Gwen Stefani which I thought was awesome. I doubt any other singer of his caliber would make that confession.

I remember ITunes used to collect celebrity playlists. It was mostly the same artists or songs featured over and over again, but you would sometimes get out of left field picks. Wish I had saved them.

When a friend was at my place looking through a few CDs - specifically recordings by Edith Piaf - she went past the beginning of Piaf and pulled out the next CD.

"You've seen all the Piaf ones," I said. "That's the Partridge Family."

She said, "Oh! Yes! How embarrassing for you!"

Until then, I didn't know I should have been embarrassed. Actually, I'm still not really convinced, so fuck her and her snooty tastes. Je ne regrette rien!

I love all of the Stock Aitken and Waterman (SAW) productions. Kylie, Rick Astley, Sinitta, Sonia, Jason Donovan, etc.

The weekly "Spoken Word" concert from the Tabernacle in Salt Lake

Heidi Montag

Anita Bryant

Any artist associated with The Eurovision Song Contest

Papa Roach

Kid Rock!!!

Why waste your life feeling ashamed when you can spend it enjoying shit like this?

My gym has a song selector machine and I chose Nancy Sinatra's "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'". When it came on all the gym rats looked incredulous.

Nancy's video.

Anything by ELO (My partner just shakes his head when I mention them.) Also Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and "Holding Out for a Hero." I'm so ashamed.

Garbage like this

There's little less cool on the face of the earth than the music of The 5th Dimension. And yet, they had monster hits / unpreventable earworms with material by people as hip as Laura Nyro, Jimmy Webb and Bacharach-David, so . . .

And I don't feel bad about liking them. Tough broad Chrissie Hynde has admitted to being a closeted Judy Collins / Karen Carpenter groupie.

When I was younger I used to be ashamed - in public - of liking Culture Club, mostly because I was teased for it.

Now, of course, I don't give any fucks whatsoever.

Bob Welch’s Sentimental Lady

Train

Hey, Soul Sister

Carly Rae Jepsen

This Kiss

Oooh, R29. I'd be ashamed of that too

Nothing wrong with ELO or Journey, IMO.

I love to blast Sylvester's Do You Wanna Funk and see how people look at me at stoplights.

DL advised me that Bryan Adams was Frau-music and I ought to renounce him.

Well, I’ve been in love with his gravelly power-fist voice since I was 5 years old so I’m not about to do that. I think he writes superlative pop-rock in his own idiom, and certainly revitalised the tormented ballad. So it’s not high art - is a typical love affair? I can listen to Badams music anytime anyplace and any time of the year, and it hits a note of something evocative.

Just one example; ‘Do I Have To Say The Words?’ can still move me to angsty manful tears. Fight me and fight the truth.

I remember when it was popular to make fun of Macy Gray, I suppose it still is, but I never stopped getting a warm feeling when I hear her sing.

Paula Abdul

The Backstreet Boys 🤷🏻‍♂️

One Direction

Bossa Nova Baby...in German

For some reason, I’m not ashamed of any “older” music I like. Early 2000s and 90s were my youth and I can blame nostalgia. 80s, 70s and 60s? Nothing to be embarrassed about. Still better than most shit today.

BUT

I never let anyone hear me sing: Thunder, thunder Thunder, thun', thunder Thun-thun-thunder, thunder, thunder Thunder, thun', thunder Thun-thun-thunder, thunder

Thunder, feel the thunder Lightning then the thunder Thunder, feel the thunder Lightning then the thunder Thunder, thunder Thunder

Van Halen (Roth era)

R17 you forgot Bananarama everything post True Confessions.

Ok I have all the CDs by Bananarama and Pet Shop Boys

I can belt through every BAT OUT OF HELL album on request. Yeah, even BAT III.

I love Amy Grant's voice even though it's music for soccer moms.

Any of those inspirational 80s songs from Karate Kid, Rocky, and Van Damme movies.

Train - Drops of Jupiter

Carrie Underwood - Before He Cheats

Guantanamo Baywatch

Loved this as a pre teen. Had to hide it from my friends as I had to put up a rock/metal facade but fuckit..I'm old..

I love the big hair and catchy hooks.

You haven't experienced real musical shame until you've actually purchased an mp3 of a bunch of churchy sister-fraus in jumpers and Jesus-approved hairdos.

Damn I love that song r5, but I can't admit outside of the sacred walls of DL. And also, I too have the secret curse of Journey love OP.

damn, think I screwed up the link.

Anything by Bobby Sherman, but especially "Easy Come, Easy Go" and "Julie, Do Ya Love Me?". I'm sorry, but if I'm in my car and they come on, I just burst into song.

HOLE Neil Diamond Judas Priest Tom Jones Willie Nelson

Do we STILL need to be ashamed of Neil Diamond, though? Maybe, but I really, really love so much of it. Can't he have some kind of Abba Revival?

Karen Carpenter. She had such a beautiful, resonating voice. I grew up in a 70s rock n' roll world, so I kept my appreciation of her music to myself.

oh damn, we are getting terrible here. NOBODY should be ashamed of loving Karen Carpenter.

Anything by Steps.

Anything by Air Supply - but especially this one; Making love out of nothing at all. So sappy, but still such a catchy tune, sucks me in every time.

when I was younger and so desperate to make friends I hid so much about me -- my taste in music (I think Toni Toneil (sp) and Karen Carpenter are fantastic, beautiful), my sexuality (gay, see music taste) and most everything.

As a result, it was hard to make friends. Now, I'm just myself and I make friends. I know who my friends are.

No relationship; maybe it'll happen, maybe it won't.

The "music you are ashamed of" - at least the examples in this thread - is the music that's instantly evocative of its time but still sounds great today. Fuck being ashamed of hit songs. They're the songs people remember.

... and there's nothing wrong with Train, R29. I was going to name Drops of Jupiter but somebody beat me to it.

So there's this. It's cheesy, so don't tell anyone. In fact, shut the door, baby. Don't say a word.

R46 That reminds me, I am ashamed admit that I enjoy listening to the OBC/film soundtrack to Rent from time to time.

Also, Rod Stewart's cover of Downtown Train.

This. Now, as the Japanese say, I am going to go somewhere and be one with my shame.

John Farnham

R56 they did a cover of a Kylie classic.

I love this song.

It should have been a love theme for an 80s soap couple.

“I just want to fucking dance” from the Jerry Springer Opera -of course I drop down an octave

R63 John Farnham rules. He did some killer cuts for soundtracks to ‘80s movies like the cult classic RAD.

^^^plus have you heard Farnham in JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR? Unlike most of the anodyne leads he actually makes it sound like a real rock opera.

R51 that reminds me that I find Winger strangely inspirational..

There’s no better John Farnham output than the songs he did for the ‘80s Linda Blair sleazefest Savage Streets. They are insanely good.

There’s no better John Farnham output than the songs he did for the ‘80s Linda Blair sleazefest Savage Streets. They are insanely good.

There’s no better John Farnham output than the songs he did for the ‘80s Linda Blair sleazefest Savage Streets. They are insanely good.

There’s no better John Farnham output than the songs he did for the ‘80s Linda Blair sleazefest Savage Streets. They are insanely good.

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Threadhog is everywhere.

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Seriously, Threadhog, ONE of those from 70 to 75—not gonna "R" them, cunt—would have gotten your message of shame across.

Thanks John ^^^^ Now let the rest of us talk.

For my deep shame I'll add Cold Play (for multiple reasons), One Republic and anything Cher.

BHmanny I can’t stand saccharine maudlin Coldplay or Chris Martin either, mostly because they were playing everywhere when I was in HS/College. I got fatigue from hearing their cuts in the mall, on the car stereo, at the gym, at the coffeeshop. Ugh.

I do acknowledge Coldplay did have a solid singles catalogue and PARACHUTES did break a particular new sound into the mainstream, but the way everyone treated that band like they were the Second Coming and the only indie act that ever mattered was revolting. It doesn’t help that Martin is on Bono & Sting’s llevel of insufferably preachy & superficial, and it didn’t take us long to find out. He hammers bluntly on his poor pianos, only it isn’t fun and powerful in the way that Elton & Tori do it.

However I must confess that two of Martin’s songs do mean something to me and did once make for a moving listen in my life - ‘The Warning Sign’ & ‘Lukas’ (given to Natalie Imbruglia). ‘The Warning Sign’ talks about a rarely-explored phenomenon in song, which is missing out on the chance at love because you didn’t notice someone you could have cared for. As for the latter song, I was in love with a guy named Lukas in freshman year who broke my heart, and I always connect my youthful longing with that song; it begrudges me to say so but it is beautiful, and probably the better for being sung and performed by a woman.

There’s an hilarious interview where Eddie Redmayne confesses his naff taste in music to Rami Malek.

I've got all of you bitches beat. . .

r9, my guilty pleasure is Chery, Chery Lady from Modern Talking.

My contribution for this thread is LUV from the 80s. Love this disco girl band.

Crystal Gayle and Gary Morris performing the 1980s theme from Another World. Starts at 1:40.

If you’re ashamed of anything you like....you’re a pussy.

Nooooooo...r84. That's nothing to be ashamed of.

R80 I'm aware how uncool it was to be a fan of Coldplay as I was one, especially around the time of Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head. Yet here we are and the most popular English act for the last several years is Ed Sheeran, who makes Coldplay look like The Rolling Stones.

These days, I feel like listening to anything other than classical and jazz makes me complicit in the cultural, aesthetic, and intellectual bankruptcy of America which can only lead to the moral bankruptcy of America.

It also makes me a hypocrite because I’m the first or one of the first to check it out whenever Rick Astley drops a new video on YouTube.

a couple songs off of lady gagas ARTPOP album.

K-pop girl bands. Especially the group f(x), since recently one of the girls sadly killed herself due to industry pressure.

I enjoy some N Sync and Backstreet Boys songs. However, I think NKOTB is better than both of them. The Right Stuff may be cheesy but you can't deny that they did well with 60s style mid tempo R&B.

Hello. Lionel Richie. Always moves me. Brings tears to my eyes. And shame to my heart.

Hello. Lionel Richie. Always moves me. Brings tears to my eyes. And shame to my heart.

Jesus Take The Wheel - Carrie Underwood

Just kidding I hate that song, but are people telling me you really give a shit whether other people like your choice of music or not?

I couldn't give two shits whether anyone likes any of my choices about anything. I live my life for my pleasure not to be harassed by others about such trivial things.

Captain & Tennille - I have ALL their stuff.

The Osmonds

Plus, when I listen to a song that's "traditionally gay" (Streisand/Cher/ABBA/Garland), I just feel a little awkward. I know it's wrong, but I don't need to announce to the entire WORLD that I'm a big homo.

Everyone loved My Heart Will Go On back then but the boys were always shy to admit it.

R95 I love a lot of stereotypically gay music. Besides the ones you mention, I also love Belinda Carlisile, Cyndi Lauper, and Madonna of course. I'm less of a Streisand fan but that's because she' way before my time.

Also Donna Summer.

Kid Creole’s ‘Annie, I’m Not Your Daddy.’ just came on the random Spotify oldies mix we have playing in the house, and I started loudly singing & dancing along, much the shock & horror of the people I live with.

I’m not really ashamed, but I guess I probably should be. It’s especially funny to karaoke with it as a gay without kids.

Why hasn’t calypso & island pop ever had a revival? Or ska/beat, for that matter?

This. A friends of mine told me I might get shot if I blasted this late at night in East Los Angeles.

Whatever.

Silver! Dagger!

From another thread SAID I LOVED YOU ... BUT I LIED by Michael Bolton is a great song and I will never admit it to anyone

This Michael Bolton song is a favorite of mine, but I’ll never admit to it

You all might say I should be ashamed of myself for liking "Afternoon Delight" but my heart swells like junebug in molasses when I play that song. It takes me back to those warm summer nights sitting alone at in my first apartment with the sickly sweet fragrance of marijuana gently wafting up from my bohemian downstair neighbors.

But I truly don't care. Those gorgeous harmonies get me listening more intently, leaning in, trying to hear each voice separately then together as they intertwine ever so gently.

Too many! Many of the tacky Eurodance hits of the mid-90s, like La Bouche. I recognize their awfulness now, but these represented the height of dance popularity in Italy at the time, and they say you like most songs that were popular when you were 12 years old, so...

Feelin' Love by Paula Cole. I can't listen to it in polite company. It makes me cum.

Loved Rod Steward in the 1980s.... Can't stand him now, lol.

There is no music I'm ashamed of liking. If YOU don't like it, I don't care.

Any Taylor Swift song

Extremely ashamed of liking this ...

Double eeew since CM was married to GOOP...

Love Will Lead You Back by Taylor Dayne. I'm not really ashamed of it, more like embarrassed. I fancy myself too much a man for it.

I hate myself for loving I Hate Myself For Loving You.

There are a handful of individual songs that I like from the various boy bands

N'Sync - bye bye bye

One Direction - Forever young

Backstreet Boys - I want it that way

All of which I am moderately embarrassed to like.