I hate myself, but my latest guilty pleasure is...

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"You and I" by Celine Dion. I've not only been sucked in by the French Canadian songbird, but an Air Canada commercial to boot. Should I just shoot myself now?

I'm actually a little upset that the full song doesn't contain the little trill she does at the end of the commercial.

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:54 (twenty years ago)

And on my itunes playlist it comes right after Capleton's "Leaders Let the People Down."

― cybele (cybele), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:56 (twenty years ago)

pleasure is pleasure! take it where you can!

i've liked some celine dion songs too--not unconditionally, heaven knows, but they're not unredeemable.

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:58 (twenty years ago)

i mean, there's a reason that titanic song was EVERYWHERE.*

*aside from being in "titanic" i mean

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

It means you are fully embracing your Canadian heritage, cybele. (I might be lying.)

How ya doin' BTW? I haven't seen you around much! Yer a good sort.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 02:59 (twenty years ago)

I like 'Hero' by Chad Kroeger. It stirs me.

― Wooden (Wooden), Sunday, 7 November 2004 03:00 (twenty years ago)

There's just something about Peter Cetera ballads...

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Sunday, 7 November 2004 03:32 (twenty years ago)

Melisma is the language of the Devil.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 03:34 (twenty years ago)

oh mah god, you guys, that is so lame!

baaaaahahahahaha!

(..kidding, of course) xpost

― dave225 (Dave225), Sunday, 7 November 2004 03:35 (twenty years ago)

Just the other day, I was watching this video and really noticing what she does with her voice. I don't know if I like it as much as "My Heart Will Go On" yet, which was obviously classic.

Something I was wondering, when thinking about those Bob Dylan vs Celine Dion vocal technique threads, was, what would people think if Celine Dion was actually singing Dylan songs . . . i.e. is it actually that her technical proficiency as a singer is somehow less expressive or less creative than Dylan's voice (which seemed to be the argument for at least some people) or is it just that people think her voice is used on less meaningful material? She actually does some interesting things with her vocal timbre in the chorus of this song - I like how she gets more nasal on the "higher" part.

Chicago's "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" is also pretty undeniable, yes. Just don't start with "The Power of Love".

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:01 (twenty years ago)

I really want to hear this now. (I realize that if I turn on MuchMoreMusic, it will probably be on.)

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:04 (twenty years ago)

peter cetera wore a BAUHAUS T-SHIRT OMGWTF

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:07 (twenty years ago)

Celine does have an interesting voice (Frank Kogan is nuts about it). I just rarely like how she employs it or her material. Good call, Sundar.

I don't think any song should be a guilty pleasure. I did realize one genuine guilty pleasure in my life: World's Deadliest Police Chases. I think shows that exploit genuine human misery should be illegal, but I'll be damned if I'm not glued to my seat when I stumble past that show.

― miccio (miccio), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:08 (twenty years ago)

I don't think any song should be a guilty pleasure.

You are most wise.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm pleased that Anthony has come up with a genuine guilty pleasure though - I love Police Chases, despite my general forror at myself for doing so.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago)

As Kurtz says in Heart of Darkness - "The forror, the forror".

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 04:39 (twenty years ago)

Have you considered suicide?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 7 November 2004 14:26 (twenty years ago)

i have a serious hankering to hear a trance version of "turn me on," but i don't think one exists.

― g--ff (gcannon), Sunday, 7 November 2004 15:59 (twenty years ago)

hell's bells! has it come to THIS?

― herbalizer12 (herbalizer12), Sunday, 7 November 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

World's Deadliest Police Chases = CLASSIC!

― Soon Over Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 7 November 2004 16:53 (twenty years ago)

"forro" = "formal horror"?

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 7 November 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that is what I meant...

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Sunday, 7 November 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago)

cybele you should get celine's photo book where she dresses up like a flower and poses with thousands of newborn babies!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 7 November 2004 19:04 (twenty years ago)

perhaps we should start reconsidering the merits of rockism

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Monday, 8 November 2004 05:56 (twenty years ago)

I've spoken many times about how UN-unpleasant I find Celine's music. (Also Whitney Houston's, but that's irrelevent.) At her absolute worst, I find her remarkably easy to ignore. (Fortunate, since I'm forced to hear her at least once daily.) And at her best, she's not bad. And yeah, I like "You And I" too.

And it's got NOTHING to do with "embracing my Canadian heritage", Ned; if that were the case, then surely I would consider the Barenaked Ladies to be something other than one of the worst groups ever!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 8 November 2004 10:18 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

REVIVE!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 27 August 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

I still proudly keep albums by then-seemingly-esoteric 90's Brit-indie also-rans like Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Senseless Things, Ride, Curve, Pale Saints and Chapterhouse on my shelves
Ride. "Also rans." Oof.

Everything on your list looks to be worth owning/hearing. I'd kind of like to see a "guilty pleasures" list from someone whose actual top 40 more or less matches your list. Seems like the hipster guilty pleasures (apologies for any appearance of calling you a hipster) always turn out to be top-40 pop or classic rock, so what are the secret vices of Jimmy Buffett's biggest fans?

― dlp9001 (dlp9001), Sunday, 27 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Parrotheads, et al, don't have large enough collections to include guilty pleasures or anything much beyond the genres they like best. And they certainly wouldn't view them as vices. I-Mearly-Like-Music types seem happy with 40 or 50 discs. If someone owned say, Buffett's greatest, the Cars s/t, Buena Vista Social Club, and "What's Goin On" it wouldn't be hard to predict the rest the other 38 discs.

― bendy (bendy), Sunday, 27 August 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Just a few days ago it occurred to me that I've never heard a Sheryl Crow song I didn't like. And there must be at least a dozen of 'em.

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

She's really not bad. Try Sheryl Crow or the greatest hits comp.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno...having to hear 'em all at once, one after another, rather than just letting them sneak up on me, would probably break the spell. (Just like when I acquired Cat Stevens and Carpenters comps.)

― Monty Von Byonga (Monty Von Byonga), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha, she probably is best taken in small doses. Some of the non-single album tracks are kind of dodgy.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Just a few days ago it occurred to me that I've never heard a Sheryl Crow song I didn't like

same for me, I haven't actually kept up with the albums beyond TNMC but I've loved every one of her subsequent singles except for that 'Steve McQueen' POS.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:29 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to have successfully blacked that one out of my memory.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Monday, 28 August 2006 04:34 (nineteen years ago)

The radio remix of A New Day Has Come is pushing me towards the edge. One of the guys in Herman Düne described the part at 3:15 as one of the best moments in pop history(or something like that)

I'm not THAT exited, but it still sounds great. In a weird way.

It's Celine Dion man..

― MRZBW (MRZBW), Monday, 28 August 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

that fucking biffy clyro song "many of horror". i thought familiarity was supposed to breed contempt?

― what kind of present your naked body (Upt0eleven), Friday, 26 February 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

Lady Gaga, "Bad Romance." MAKE IT STOP! OH GOD DON'T EVER STOP!

― mottdeterre, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:07 (fifteen years ago)

television, marquee moon

― nakhchivan, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:44 (fifteen years ago)

our lord jesus christ

― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 26 February 2010 16:45 (fifteen years ago)

Cascada - Exterminate the Dance Floor

― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Friday, 26 February 2010 16:55 (fifteen years ago)

my cd collection from a-z is one big guilty pleasure.

― mark e, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:08 (fifteen years ago)

We Built This City.

― kornrulez6969, Friday, 26 February 2010 18:35 (fifteen years ago)

in wht world are we built this city or marquee moon guilty pleasures

― Hideous Lamp (cozen), Friday, 26 February 2010 18:36 (fifteen years ago)

Marquee Moon is a pleasure, We Built This City is just guilty.

― La religion est une fatigante solution de paresse (Michael White), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:28 (fifteen years ago)

disemboweling hookers

― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:32 (fifteen years ago)

subversive humor

― Don't delay, we cannot do this forever. (Matt P), Friday, 26 February 2010 19:35 (fifteen years ago)

cheap shots

― aarrissi-a-roni, Friday, 26 February 2010 19:39 (fifteen years ago)

Ahhh, the wonderful feeling of not feeling guilty for liking something.

― one boob is free with one (daavid), Sunday, 28 February 2010 23:46 (fifteen years ago)

Blame It, T-Pain. The vid for this was amazing tho, I loved seeing Ron Howard, Jake Gyllenhaal, Forest Whitaker and others mean mugging. It was half serious, half joking.

― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 03:25 (fifteen years ago)

sorry, i mean jamie foxx

― RubyNoir, Monday, 1 March 2010 03:26 (fifteen years ago)

i was just thinking the the other day how embarrassed i was about admitting to liking "fireflies", and here i am doing it again.

it's that catchy synth riff at the intro that gets me, plus the styx-like overproduction

― messiahwannabe, Monday, 1 March 2010 08:21 (fifteen years ago)

eight months pass...

I don't really hate myself for it, but I can't stop listening to this corny-as-corn soppy-as-sop duet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgYEz0Td1k

― seandalai, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 21:08 (fourteen years ago)

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