Mr Nice GuyFive embarassing music-related items everyone should secretly love.
January 3rd 2009 06:59
Who doesn't love a list? Seriously. Listing things is like my crack. Here are my top five most embarassing music-related items that everyone secretly loves. And, sometimes, not so secretly.
1. Xanadu.
1980's special effects. Gene Kelly. A multitude of inter-racial couples. Roller Ballet. This movie really does have it all. The story of Sunny Malone, a painter with the most badass name ever, and how his life is changed when he is visited by a human incarnation of one of the nine muses. Presumably the same muse his new business partner (Gene Kelly) lost in the 1940's. They join together to create 'Xanadu', a 1940's/1980's themed roller-nightclub.
Yes, i am serious.
It ended up being Gene Kelly's last ever film role. And what a movie to finish on! The end dance/roller-ballet sequence is pretty much the reason for living. It's also spawned some pretty brilliant dance remixes. If you don't secretly love this movie then you have no soul.
2. Billy Idol.
Oh, man. If i were a hip young thing in his heyday, you can bet your ass i would have been peroxiding a pixie cut and squeezing into pleather pants. Billy Idol manages to get shirtless in the majority of his video clips, probably because leather shirts were not available and, quite frankly, the clip for 'Hot in the City' is 85% crotch shots and despite his hard appearance he probably couldn't win a fight with a five year old but who cares? This is badass 80's synth at it's finest. And if you were to put 'Rebel Yell' on at a party, you know everyone would be up and dancing. More More More!
3. One Horrendously bad pop 'Lust' song of your choice.
It's probably quite dangerous to put this out into the world, especially since i market myself as some sort of adorable indie/grunge pixe, but since my readership is currently at zero i'm willing to humiliate myself. Perhaps it may even bring people in? ha. Mine is *gulp* 'Sweetest Sin' by Jessica Simpson.
No, really. Check my iPod, it's right there. I heard it for the first time when i was but a young seventeen year old, in the depths of a crush on a friend of mine. Every word rung true to my hormonally-charged, love-drunk brain.
As a sidenote, i ended up dating that girl or two years, and the breakup for that relationship was the most horrific thing i have ever had happen to me in my entire life. So, that goes to show, i think, don't date people you have previously imagined getting it on with near a waterfall.
Embedding disabled on pretty much every youtube video THERE IS. so go check it out.
4. The Macarena.
Aaaah, The Macarena. It's always, always played at family functions, wedding receptions, Great Aunt Mabel's 95th etc etc, and every time i will be sitting in a corner, wishing for death to come as my reletives mock me for being ~*~too cool~*~ to dance with them.
However, in the past year of nightclub-attending, whether it be the Goth club Blink or the Indie Britpop night, i have discovered lines of young drunk kids, arms outstretched. They don't even do it to the actual Macarena song, i've seen overweight metalheads Macarena to The Prodigy! And yes, i'm front and centre, shaking my booty with the best of them.
(See also: The Nutbush)
5. t.A.T.u
Two words: Russian. Lesbians. Hells yes did i ever love this duo when they came out (ha ha.) Why wouldn't I? I was a confused 16 year old and here were two good-looking schoolgirls. Making out. In the Rain. I think my head exploded. Like every other closeted Babydyke, i hurried out and bought this album, memorising all the seriously deep lyrics. Of course, it soon turned out that these ladies did not really love the ladies (in fact i believe one became pregnant?) but the damage had already been done.
And, to be honest (and i'm sure the Elders will take away my membership card) but K.D Lang did nothing for me. ugh.
What's with all the disabled embedding? Tragic.
Linky-Link
So there you have it. Five embarassing music crazes/items that you need to love. You can bond with that hot young thing on the bus when they realise you're blasting Billy Idol from your iPod, clutching a newly-bought dvd of Xanadu. Thank me later, really.
As a sidenote, i was going to put Footloose on there, but i then realised that it's not tragic or embarassing in anyway and is, in fact, the best thing that has happened to the Music, Movie and Dance world. Yes.
1. Xanadu.
1980's special effects. Gene Kelly. A multitude of inter-racial couples. Roller Ballet. This movie really does have it all. The story of Sunny Malone, a painter with the most badass name ever, and how his life is changed when he is visited by a human incarnation of one of the nine muses. Presumably the same muse his new business partner (Gene Kelly) lost in the 1940's. They join together to create 'Xanadu', a 1940's/1980's themed roller-nightclub.
It ended up being Gene Kelly's last ever film role. And what a movie to finish on! The end dance/roller-ballet sequence is pretty much the reason for living. It's also spawned some pretty brilliant dance remixes. If you don't secretly love this movie then you have no soul.
2. Billy Idol.
Oh, man. If i were a hip young thing in his heyday, you can bet your ass i would have been peroxiding a pixie cut and squeezing into pleather pants. Billy Idol manages to get shirtless in the majority of his video clips, probably because leather shirts were not available and, quite frankly, the clip for 'Hot in the City' is 85% crotch shots and despite his hard appearance he probably couldn't win a fight with a five year old but who cares? This is badass 80's synth at it's finest. And if you were to put 'Rebel Yell' on at a party, you know everyone would be up and dancing. More More More!
3. One Horrendously bad pop 'Lust' song of your choice.
It's probably quite dangerous to put this out into the world, especially since i market myself as some sort of adorable indie/grunge pixe, but since my readership is currently at zero i'm willing to humiliate myself. Perhaps it may even bring people in? ha. Mine is *gulp* 'Sweetest Sin' by Jessica Simpson.
No, really. Check my iPod, it's right there. I heard it for the first time when i was but a young seventeen year old, in the depths of a crush on a friend of mine. Every word rung true to my hormonally-charged, love-drunk brain.
As a sidenote, i ended up dating that girl or two years, and the breakup for that relationship was the most horrific thing i have ever had happen to me in my entire life. So, that goes to show, i think, don't date people you have previously imagined getting it on with near a waterfall.
Embedding disabled on pretty much every youtube video THERE IS. so go check it out.
4. The Macarena.
Aaaah, The Macarena. It's always, always played at family functions, wedding receptions, Great Aunt Mabel's 95th etc etc, and every time i will be sitting in a corner, wishing for death to come as my reletives mock me for being ~*~too cool~*~ to dance with them.
However, in the past year of nightclub-attending, whether it be the Goth club Blink or the Indie Britpop night, i have discovered lines of young drunk kids, arms outstretched. They don't even do it to the actual Macarena song, i've seen overweight metalheads Macarena to The Prodigy! And yes, i'm front and centre, shaking my booty with the best of them.
(See also: The Nutbush)
5. t.A.T.u
Two words: Russian. Lesbians. Hells yes did i ever love this duo when they came out (ha ha.) Why wouldn't I? I was a confused 16 year old and here were two good-looking schoolgirls. Making out. In the Rain. I think my head exploded. Like every other closeted Babydyke, i hurried out and bought this album, memorising all the seriously deep lyrics. Of course, it soon turned out that these ladies did not really love the ladies (in fact i believe one became pregnant?) but the damage had already been done.
And, to be honest (and i'm sure the Elders will take away my membership card) but K.D Lang did nothing for me. ugh.
What's with all the disabled embedding? Tragic.
Linky-Link
So there you have it. Five embarassing music crazes/items that you need to love. You can bond with that hot young thing on the bus when they realise you're blasting Billy Idol from your iPod, clutching a newly-bought dvd of Xanadu. Thank me later, really.
As a sidenote, i was going to put Footloose on there, but i then realised that it's not tragic or embarassing in anyway and is, in fact, the best thing that has happened to the Music, Movie and Dance world. Yes.
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Comment by May
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Secretly loved? Probably so!
I've never seen Xanadu in its entirety, but the theme song is just a perfect slice of disco...and really, ONJ can make any song work...almost.
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