![]() ![]() What does it mean that so many "guilty pleasures" are populist dance songs? What makes a song "respectable," and who is responsible for making it so? Any way you slice it, we're all a product of our environments-to paraphrase Jim Jones. They're actually tied up in the most important conversations we have on a regular basis: arguments about race, gender, sexuality, class, elitism, and education. How these break down can tell us a lot about how we see ourselves. Many of the reasons why people end up feeling "guilty" about music involve seemingly arbitrary external constraints. In the real world, there are social pressures, signals that communicate preconceived notions of what music we can and can't like. Guilt, to quote New Order, is a useless emotion, especially when it comes to popular music. First off, there shouldn't be any such thing as a guilty pleasure.
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