Comments on: My First Guilty Pleasure http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/ Just another geek in the geek kingdom Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:38:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: RickRussellTX http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8921 RickRussellTX Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:19:27 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8921 Lemme try that again... No regrets. I loved <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4" rel="nofollow">Renegade</a> when I was in third grade, and it's <strong>STILL AWESOME</strong>, as amply proved by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXyuNae5No" rel="nofollow">Chris Daughtry</a>. Lemme try that again… No regrets. I loved Renegade when I was in third grade, and it’s STILL AWESOME, as amply proved by Chris Daughtry.

]]> By: RickRussellTX http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8920 RickRussellTX Sun, 16 Aug 2009 04:17:46 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8920 No regrets. I loved <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXhuso4OTG4" rel="nofollow">Renegade</a> when I was in third grade, and it's <strong>STILL AWESOME</strong>, as amply proved by a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXyuNae5No">Chris Daughtry</a>. No regrets. I loved Renegade when I was in third grade, and it’s STILL AWESOME, as amply proved by a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciXyuNae5No”>Chris Daughtry.

]]> By: Barry http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8850 Barry Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:27:24 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8850 Don't worry about guilty pleasures; life's too short to restrict to Officially Cool things. BTW - 'Total Eclipse of the Heart' is still good, it just depends on the mood. I came across TtWS when I was in my late 30's ('All I Want'), and enjoyed 'Walk on the Ocean'. It's amazingly deliberately schmaltzy, but it works, and that's what counts. Don’t worry about guilty pleasures; life’s too short to restrict to Officially Cool things.

BTW – ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’ is still good, it just depends on the mood.

I came across TtWS when I was in my late 30′s (‘All I Want’), and enjoyed ‘Walk on the Ocean’. It’s amazingly deliberately schmaltzy, but it works, and that’s what counts.

]]> By: Laure http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8832 Laure Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:30:22 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8832 Good Lord. That's so guilty I might change my stance on capital punishment. Good Lord. That’s so guilty I might change my stance on capital punishment.

]]> By: Jefferson http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8831 Jefferson Thu, 13 Aug 2009 02:11:13 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8831 Thanks, Kent. Spot on. Thanks, Kent. Spot on.

]]> By: Neil the Ethical Werewolf http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8830 Neil the Ethical Werewolf Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:53:14 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8830 Maybe we could say that guilty pleasures involve a combination of these two things: being confident in an aesthetic value system according to which something is bad, and still having a positive aesthetic response to it. Seems like the sort of thing that happens fairly often. Maybe we could say that guilty pleasures involve a combination of these two things: being confident in an aesthetic value system according to which something is bad, and still having a positive aesthetic response to it. Seems like the sort of thing that happens fairly often.

]]> By: digamma http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8822 digamma Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:10:11 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8822 "Would you be embarrassed if your friends saw that CD/track in your collection/iPod?" Then they aren't my friends. “Would you be embarrassed if your friends saw that CD/track in your collection/iPod?”

Then they aren’t my friends.

]]> By: Emily http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8821 Emily Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:57:40 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8821 "I’ve never seen any particular need for guilt over enjoying (say) fun, frivolous, dumb pop on its own terms." I agree with you, yet sometimes I still can't help a red face (especially in certain company) over certain things that I like. Guess the rest of us just aren't as evolved. ;) Interesting...so if a song is fun, frivolous and dumb but doesn't aspire to more, that's ok, but if it's that way in spite of itself, that's not ok? I mean, in judging artistic merit that makes sense, as there are few things more painful than something that's obviously trying too hard. Still, I can see where you might be able to enjoy "Walk on the Ocean" as something cheesily fun because that's your experience of it, even if you don't think it's the intent. (Not because I found myself kind of bopping along to it...no...my face is the same color it was before, why do you ask?) But then you have nostalgia as an excuse, so you hardly even have grounds for guilt. Pff. “I’ve never seen any particular need for guilt over enjoying (say) fun, frivolous, dumb pop on its own terms.”

I agree with you, yet sometimes I still can’t help a red face (especially in certain company) over certain things that I like. Guess the rest of us just aren’t as evolved. ;)

Interesting…so if a song is fun, frivolous and dumb but doesn’t aspire to more, that’s ok, but if it’s that way in spite of itself, that’s not ok? I mean, in judging artistic merit that makes sense, as there are few things more painful than something that’s obviously trying too hard. Still, I can see where you might be able to enjoy “Walk on the Ocean” as something cheesily fun because that’s your experience of it, even if you don’t think it’s the intent. (Not because I found myself kind of bopping along to it…no…my face is the same color it was before, why do you ask?) But then you have nostalgia as an excuse, so you hardly even have grounds for guilt. Pff.

]]> By: Kent http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8818 Kent Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:41:16 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8818 Julian, the song is used to great effect in this Stella video http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1609556 Julian, the song is used to great effect in this Stella video

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1609556

]]> By: squirrel http://www.juliansanchez.com/2009/08/12/my-first-guilty-pleasure/comment-page-1/#comment-8816 squirrel Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:16:45 +0000 http://www.juliansanchez.com/?p=3515#comment-8816 Take heart, Julian, your song does have one redeeming feature: Nostalgia. It may not be good, but it reminds you of good feelings from long ago. Everybody deeply loved something at age 13 that has hasn't held up well over time. Six words: "All right, stop. Collaborate and listen." The defense rests, your honor. Take heart, Julian, your song does have one redeeming feature: Nostalgia. It may not be good, but it reminds you of good feelings from long ago. Everybody deeply loved something at age 13 that has hasn’t held up well over time. Six words: “All right, stop. Collaborate and listen.”

The defense rests, your honor.

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