We’ve got a topic to throw out. Lately the Subterranean office has been blasting a few questionable records, not the least of which is that new Maroon 5 song and Nu Shooz “I Can’t Wait“.
Maroon 5 - clearly a guilty pleasure. Nu Shooz? Debatable. When it was released in 1986, it absolutely would have been but have the twenty years between now and then mellowed the harsh standards?
Case in point: “Against All Odds”. Obviously the stigma was officially removed from this song when Ben Gibbard recorded it as a Postal Service b-side, but something had to be going on before that to make it acceptable to us all. It’s reached a saturation point for us now, with Justin from Menomena jokingly going into a chorus during their New York show.
We can’t seem to settle this debate amongst ourselves, so you tell us. What makes a song no longer a guilty pleasure?
Those of you who don’t believe in guilty pleasures because everything you like is good can just warm some bench on this one. We’ve heard your argument and we think it is bunk. Some songs are not good, quantifiably.
