Ultimate Guilty Pleasures!

I know, I know, I was supposed to blog about Melaka in this post, but this inspiration came to me so I had no choice but to postpone Melaka to another day. Was caught in another traffic jam today, and I popped in my Ultimate Sing-Alongs compilation (yea I actually have one, and so do some of my close friends - haha you know who you are) and had a jolly good time singing along. Yes no matter how much you deny it, everyone has a song they secretly sing along to when nobody is watching. Songs you feel if revealed will tarnish your image you have so sacredly built up. So for the benefit of everyone who is hiding in the closet, I have unashamedly decided to put together 10 of the following videos of ultimate guilty pleasures. Sigh the sacrifices I make to my reputation for you guys. Go ahead and click to watch (over and over again), you know you want to...

1) Wannabe - Spice Girls. Come on now, everyone loved them back in secondary school. Everyone I know owned the Spice album, just like everyone owned the cassette of Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill (which I can't seem to find the CD in stores now). Just when you thought girlll power has finally died off, here they are on their comeback tour. Man if they came to Malaysia I would have definitely gone to watch. Comeback single Headline (Friendship Never Ends) is mediocre though. Where has all the fun and zest gone? Of course they're denying they're coming back because of the money. And we believe them, don't we? Anyways a UK celebrity remarked about the Headline video, "If they really are singing about friendship, why do they need to be dressed in bras and panties?". Finally someone has asked the burning question.



2) Mmmbop - Hanson. Kudos, I say, to anyone who can make a hit out of a non-word. When I first saw the video, I honestly thought the lead singer was a girl! Of course they eventually grew up, voices cracked, started singing more 'serious' stuff. Zzzzz...



3) YMCA - Village People. I cannot imagine anyone being a spoiled sport enough to not like this song. Everyone knows the dance, everyone knows the words to the chorus (well it is, after all, just Y...M...C...A...). If you've not watched the video before, here's your chance. Be warned though, it IS very gay. Would you expect anything less?



4) Like A Virgin - Madonna. Yes, back when Madonna was still young and naive and not going all Kabbalah on us, she used to sing about being like a virgin, wearing cone-shaped bras, and sang in that whiny voice like in this song. Ah, who would have thought this teeny bopper back then would become the icon that she is today? Wonder if 20 years down the line, would Britney wake up and go all Kabbalah on us as well (and still make crap movies)?



5) Baby One More Time - Britney Spears. Which of course leads me to this classic debut video by Britney. Yes this was the video that caused the uproar about school uniforms. She's practically in the news everyday at the moment, making the rumours of her having a boob job back then seem so small in comparison. My, who would have thought Miss-I'm-Still-A-Virgin would have ended up being in the rut she's in now.



6) Barbie Girl - Aqua. Haha I don't think this video needs any introduction. Even Lai Jing used to own their album (yes, Lai Jing, I'm bringing you down with me).



7) Nothing In This World - Paris Hilton. Everyone hates Paris. And why shouldn't we? She is the epitome of all things wrong. She can't act, she can't sing, she's not funny, she breaks the law. But she's got the moolah. So she gets the movie roles, the TV scripts, the debut album, the red carpet invites, the press coverage. So the album sucked, like it should, but this song? Wellll, it is hummable. Now, that's hot, right?



8) Dancing Queen - Abba. 100% karaoke favourite among the Ah Lians.



9) Locomotion - Kylie Minogue. Haha I remember when I was small someone made me dance to this song. Thank gosh there was no YouTube back then!



10) I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys. Ok I confess, I used to be a BSB fan. Ok a big one. And I owned all their albums. But now I look back, I don't think I'm too embarrassed by it. Well they're still hanging around now, but they seem so much more serious ie boring now. Well this is another classic guilty pleasure song. Everyone knows the lyrics, everyone sings along, everyone knows it's cheesy. Well, it ain't the most parodied song and video for nothing.