Spot Inspection: Your iPod! (Hall of Shame edition)
Jun 22, 2007, 11:24 AM | by Michael Slezak
Categories: iPod inspection, Music
My all-time favorite episode of Starting Over involved a woman who was asked to sit inside a cardboard box, write down her "issues" on its walls, and then bust her way to the outside as a way to "break down her barriers." Because there are no cardboard boxes in the blogosphere, we can't reenact that stupendously stupid-beautiful moment today, but I've cooked up an exercise that elicits a similar reading on the pop-cultural shame-o-meter. Here's what I want you to do: Take a few minutes to peruse your iPod song list — or paw through your CD collection — and then share the five most shameful songs in your collection. And remember, I wouldn't ask you to dive into the humiliation pool if I wasn't already standing in the deep end, arms outstretched, promising to buy you a pony. Ready... set...jump!
(1) Samantha Fox (pictured), "Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)" Stop judging me! This track was downloaded from a compilation CD called Ladies of the '80s; you, on the other hand, have no excuse for knowing all the words to the chorus.
(2) C-Note, "Wait Till I Get Home" No joke, I might be out of a job by day's end if my boss watches the corresponding video clip at YahooMusic, especially the part where these cut-rate Backstreet Boys bust vaguely obscene moves while delivering the line "bring it on home, daddy." Oh, how I wish I were making that up.
(3) Lita Ford, "Hungry" The musical equivalent of a late-night movie on Cinemax, but 57% less artful.
(4) Patra, "Pull Up to the Bumper" Purchased at the iTunes store in the last 30 days, but in my defense, I'd been drinking a little bit.
(5) Scatman John, "Scatman (Shi-Ba-Bop-Ba-Dop-Bop)" This will be blaring from the speakers when I begin my descent into music hell. It burns! It burns!
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