Great thread this.

I'm not at all ashamed about my awful tastes

Games: Singstar. Especially the ABBA disc.
Films: love Musicals so a big shout out to the OP with Mama Mia. Love everything with Tom Cruise in it too.
Music: cheesy fun disco and pop. Pretty much know ABBAs back catalogue like the back of my hand. Also have listened and sang along loudly to the Frozen soundtrack on many a drive.
TV: pretty much the only thing I ever watch is Top Gear reruns on Dave.
Drink: stupidly fruity cocktails.

New one to add now.
Secret fantasy: always wanted to be a song and dance kinda guy, would've loved to have played the lead in a musical on stage.

Game, film, music, telly. Okay.

Game: Juggle on the iPhone. It’s basically Pong with gravity. Or Breakout with no bricks. Yet SO ADDICTIVE.

Film: I have a huge soft spot for US high school comedies. I unironically love Mean Girls, Clueless, Easy A, Cruel Intentions, Pitch Perfect, etc. All of them.

Music: Electro swing. I know it’s cheesy and easy to write. I know it shows a shocking lack of originality and panders to the basest kind of nostalgia over taste. Still love it.

Telly: Top Gear. I can’t help enjoying it, despite myself.

davyK wrote:

djchump wrote:

I remember the weeks of hype leading up to this fucking disgrace of an anti-climax. The walk to the ring probably knackered them both.

It's probably easier to say in hindsight, but what did anyone expect? That said, the live crowd is hot as hell and pops for basically everything.

Food: dripping on toast.  Fray Bentos pies. Bacon cheese grills. 
Drink: the reaction to my daily Bovril at work suggests it's frowned upon.
Songs: Road to Hell pt.2. Ice Ice Baby. Chickity China the Chinese Chicken.

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Chickity China the Chinese Chicken.

You have a drumstick and your brain stops ticking?

No one has said Across the Tracks. This film was on late night TV so often when I was at uni and I watched it every time. It's awful, but so so good and I love it.

Diluted Dante wrote:

davyK wrote:

djchump wrote:

I remember the weeks of hype leading up to this fucking disgrace of an anti-climax. The walk to the ring probably knackered them both.

It's probably easier to say in hindsight, but what did anyone expect? That said, the live crowd is hot as hell and pops for basically everything.

1981 - I was 15 and hyped to the gills. Even though I knew it was nonsense I was expecting more entertainment.

Not really seeing a lot of pleasures that I'd class as guilty, more people who have been fooled into thinking pop is inherently bad.

No intent to condescend, I just think people should enjoy things without the shackles of guilt

Ru Paul's Drag Race.

Tempy wrote:

No intent to condescend, I just think people should enjoy things without the shackles of guilt

I agree, but picking a pop song as a guilty pleasure does not mean that people have been fooled into thinking anything about pop music. You could love pop music but still consider a particular pop song to be a guilty pleasure. Alternatively you could have made your own choice that pop music is bad without having been fooled by anyone.

Yossarian wrote:

Tempy wrote:

No intent to condescend, I just think people should enjoy things without the shackles of guilt

I agree, but picking a pop song as a guilty pleasure does not mean that people have been fooled into thinking anything about pop music. You could love pop music but still consider a particular pop song to be a guilty pleasure. Alternatively you could have made your own choice that pop music is bad without having been fooled by anyone.

Bad wording then. The point still stands - finger wag on, don't be shackled with guilt. Especially our Irish contingent.

You're right, there's nothing wrong with J-Pop.

That's what she said!

As a teen I often watched a dreadful American soap called The Bold & the Beautiful. It was fucking awful, Channel 5 showed it when they first started, which tells you it's level. Not even primetime channel five. I've never liked soap operas but the sheer awful tackiness, over-the-top melodrama and wooden acting of this one appealed for some reason. I only watched it for a while (summer holidays maybe) but over the course of those few months at least three main characters were murdered and I'm pretty sure one of them came back from the dead, or came back as their previous unknown identical twin. Dreadful programme.

I also fancied quite a few of the women in it. Which is very tasteless of me as they were almost exclusively dead-eyed, duck faced LA plastic surgery disasters. The kind of girl everyone slags off in the 'Sins' thread for being too obvious and plastic looking. You could tell they went out to Hollywood looking for stardom but ending up in this trash because they didn't have much acting talent. There was a certain amount of unacknowledged self-loathing about most of the actors in it, they knew they were whoring themselves in a ridiculous series which had zero credibility or kudos.

Looking back I think the cheap, slightly sleazy nature of it may have been the reason I watched. And my guilty teenaged sexual arousal for the females in it. It always looked like a low rent 90's porno, albeit one where they never quite got down to the fucking. Although the production values were probably lower than most porn films.

I wasn't a religious viewer or anything, but I definitely felt guilty about watching it.