Top 5 Bands That Challenge My Music Cred

Like any good music junkie, I listen to a lot of music you’ve never heard of. I make party playlists absent of Beyonce and Black Eyed Peas. I first heard that song on that new iPod commercial/Gossip Girl episode months ago. It took me four weeks to see the new Lady Gaga video, but four minutes to find out that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros were going on tour.

But, for all the obscure music I spend countless hours researching, listening to, and talking about, there is some pretty embarrassing stuff on my iPod. Songs that I will belt out in my car, but if they came on while someone was in the room, I would leap up and change.

These are the bands that I lose music cred over:

Marianas Trench

A guilty, but honest favourite of mine; I love all the songs this band does. Shakeatramp is a brilliant video, Good to You makes me cry, and Masterpiece Theatre I, II, and III are brilliantly mixed and harmonized. This is a band that I will admit that I’m embarrassed to love, but I will keep on despite listener outcries. 

Jonas Brothers

In my defence, I just have two songs (Love Bug and Paranoid). Yes I know all the lyrics and yes I once had a dream that I dated one of the brothers. We held hands. It was hot.

Glee Soundtrack

This is legitimately good music. It took me three years of dating a musical man to appreciate this art form, but the songs are catchy, the show is cute, and I have a major love-on for Puck. That being said, if any of these songs came on while in the presence of hipsters, I would throw myself out.

Billboard Top Pop-Emo Songs (Metro Station, Mission District, Owl City)

You know those really annoying songs that make it to MuchMusic’s top ten? Yeah, I love them. I usually lose interest after the first two weeks of listening to them obsessively, but they remain on my iPod.

Girl Country (Taylor Swift, Dixie Chicks, Sheryl Crow, Shania Twain)

Taylor Swift (You Belong with Me) and Dixie Chicks (Not Ready to Make Nice) make me tear up. Shania Twain and Sheryl Crow were among my first introductions to music. And sometimes a girl just needs to stomp around her room in stilettos and a new outfit to Man I Feel Like a Woman and scream over her ex to If It Makes You Happy.

I may have just lost the little bit of music cred I have built up over this blog, but hopefully you'll still check back for passionate updates on the must-know-but-you-don't-know bands. 

So, what are your guilty music pleasures?

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