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The Guilty Pleasures
Music's Guilty Pleasures Are Dead…And Bigger Than Ever
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According to some recent data, the prevalence of streaming means that music listeners are no longer forced to publicly purchase their trashy pop favorites, with the result that these guilty pleasures are seeing a massive resurgence. Guest Post by Jack Isquith on Digital Music Insider Irving Berlin said, “Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.” Recently the metrics meets storytelling site polygraph (poly-graph.co) published a piece by Matt Daniels on the most timeless songs from the 1990’s. More specifically, using ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Michael Buble - Come Fly with Me (2004)
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Something Else!
Diana Krall ... Harry Connick Jr. ... Josh Groban ... Norah Jones ... Michael Bublé. What to make of young, attractive musicians who seem rooted in the past? Are they tryin' to trick us by offering lite and easy-to-chew nostalgia? Sorry, but that's a big loada hooey. Even though the visually-oriented marketing makes me a little nervous (especially in the case of Krall ... though her “Peel Me A Grape" makes me forget for a while), it's not fair for ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Norah Jones - Feels Like Home (2004)
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By Mark Saleski Smack in the middle of the initial Norah Jones explosion (remember? When it seemed like the radio was tryin' to brainwash you by playing “Don't Know Why" every 20 minutes or so ... and you kept thinkin' “gee, aren't there any other songs on that CD?) it was pretty easy to pick up on signs of the backlash. It was bound to happen. Somebody steps into the official RisingStar position and immediately the wet blanket brigade pipes ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Jeff Lynne and the Electric Light Orchestra
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By Something Else Reviews It's true, as Randy Newman once impishly sang, they were six fine English boys who knew each other in Birmingham. After that, things got tricky for the Electric Light Orchestra. Despite an impressive string of 1970s hits, they became an easy target. People knocked the strings. The Beatlemania. Jeff Lynne's spaceman fro. We won't even get into ELO Part II. Newman, in this dead-on parody of their orchestral bombast called “The Story of a Rock and ...
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Guilty Pleasures: Rupert Holmes, "Escape (the Pina Colada Song)" (1979)
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By Nick DeRiso Mark, late last week, said he didn't get the whole guilty-pleasure thing. Excuse me, as the ageless line in “Blazing Saddles" once went, while I whip this out: “Escape," a Rubert Holmes tripe that includes the helpful addendum (as if any fool, ahem, who knows all the words, cough, could forget): The Pina Colada Song. I know. I shouldn't like this. The reasons are many: The silly premise, that passive-aggressively lazy beat, its easy cynicism. It's true, ...
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