Guilty Pleasures

Lorelli! · 18-03-2018 12:20am #1

Love Joe le Taxi with Vanessa Paradise. Tbh I'm not sure that I see it as a guilty pleasure because I think it's a great song. One I am really ashamed to like but do like is Sexy Bitch by David Guetta

I can't help it. I was made listen to it one night about 10 times at a friend's house party and feel i may have some kind of mild music Stockholm syndrome for it since

Movies - I like Dirty Dancing. It's a great film with an even better soundtrack but with lots of cheesy moments

Food - I love Indian and Chinese takeaway even though I know what we get take out here is not good for you

What are your guilty pleasures?

McCrack · 18-03-2018 12:48am

Having peddlers

Lorelli! · 18-03-2018 12:54am

McCrack wrote: »

Having peddlers

I have no idea what that means?

jaxxx · 18-03-2018 1:01am

Lorelli! wrote: »

I have no idea what that means?

Wikipedia:
A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a canvasser, chapman, cheapjack, hawker, higler, huckster, monger, or solicitor, is a traveling vendor of goods. In England, the term was mostly used for travellers hawking goods in the countryside to small towns and villages; they might also be called tinkers or gypsies. In London more specific terms were used, such as costermonger.

No idea if this is what McCrack was on about :pac:

PirateShampoo · 18-03-2018 1:06am

Masterbaiting when the misses and the sprog pop out for a few hours or 5 mins.

18-03-2018 1:12am

Joe le Taxi was brilliant! She was only 14 when she became famous for that. I see from a quick google she was walking out with Johnny Depp for 14 years and has a couple of chislers with him.

Joe le Taxi was the same year, 1987, as this absolutely brilliant 1980s song, also French (I forgot her name but got it in YouTube by putting in "French" "singer" "hair" and "1980s". hehe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSMLdU-80o

Came across 'Voyage, Voyage' by Desireless a few years ago redone by that brilliant German band Gregorian. Fantastic rendition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnjHdtWA4n0

Lorelli! · 18-03-2018 1:24am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Joe le Taxi was brilliant! She was only 14 when she became famous for that. I see from a quick google she was walking out with Johnny Depp for 14 years and has a couple of chislers with him.

Joe le Taxi was the same year, 1987, as this absolutely brilliant 1980s song, also French (I forgot her name but got it in YouTube by putting in "French" "singer" "hair" and "1980s". hehe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSMLdU-80o

Came across 'Voyage, Voyage' by Desireless a few years ago redone by that brilliant German band Gregorian. Fantastic rendition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnjHdtWA4n0

I love voyage voyage! Have no recollection of where or how I know that song but I mentioned it here in a thread a while ago. It's a great melody/sound

Another guilty pleasure would be The Human League ...

Mountainsandh · 18-03-2018 1:34am

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Joe le Taxi was brilliant! She was only 14 when she became famous for that. I see from a quick google she was walking out with Johnny Depp for 14 years and has a couple of chislers with him.

Joe le Taxi was the same year, 1987, as this absolutely brilliant 1980s song, also French (I forgot her name but got it in YouTube by putting in "French" "singer" "hair" and "1980s". hehe):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRSMLdU-80o

Came across 'Voyage, Voyage' by Desireless a few years ago redone by that brilliant German band Gregorian. Fantastic rendition:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnjHdtWA4n0

I was 14, growing up in France in 1987. Poor Vanessa got an awful doing for Joe le taxi. At her first performance she was pelted (by the press I think!) With rotteon tomatoes. We all thought the squeaky voice was awful, but we got hypnotized by it all the same and ended up loving it. There was a song about her cat called Maxou on the album, used to love it.

My shameful little secret is enjoying some embarrassingly young pop music at times, and also treating myself to foods my children and husband would love sometimes and hiding it. I can make chocolate or Pringles last a week or more, but the minute they see it it's gone, so they just don't see it.

Mountainsandh · 18-03-2018 1:40am

Oh, and if you guys like Desireless and Vanessa, you should check out Jeanne Mas, I was a big fan, and of course Mylene Farmer, who got a revival and is gigging again these past few years. ("Je Suis un garcon" gender themed song, brilliant)