Guilty Pleasures: It’s not Onely, but you can’t help it! August 18, 2008
Posted by Onely in music review, Pop Culture: Scourge of the Onelys, Reviews.Tags: feministing.com, guilty pleasures, lovin, scourge of the Onelies, trick pony
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One of Lisa’s and my favorite blogs, feministing.com, solicits Guilty Pleasures from its readers. According to feministing blogger Miriam, guilty pleasures are “those pop culture things that you love, even though deep down inside you know that they might conflict with your feminist values”.
I got to thinking about this while writing our recent post about Trick Pony’s song “Just what I do when I can’t get no lovin'”. I have it in my Ipod and think it’s a catchy tune and, yes, when I first heard it I laughed. Yet I found the premise disturbing enough to post on it–
Who else has pop culture things that conflict with their Onely values, but which they can’t help liking?
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Probably the whole series of 90210 and of Melrose Place. And I’m actually kind of curious about the new 90210. 🙂 Embarrassingly.
For me, it’s gotta be When Harry Met Sally — which I am watching right now, in a spur of the moment decision… Watch it about once a year, and I always always love-hate it. 🙂 L