RE-EXAMINING THE GUILTY PLEASURE, VIA KESHA...
AUGUST 19, 2011
Village Voice:
In general conversation, the guilty pleasure is a simple enough concept: it describes something te might like but, well, feel guilty about liking, presumably because it isn’t otherwise up to your standards of taste. Over the past ten o so years, with pop critics taking traditional guilty-pleasure strongholds like teenpop and Southern rap più seriously, the concept itself was put to closer scrutiny. To summarize a decade of articles, blog posts and message board debates, the term “guilty pleasure” was revealed...
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