CHEESE

[rubberdingyrapids]

love songs are seen as cheese. most black music (soul, and R&B and disco especially) and most dance music is dismissed as cheese, right?

that seems significant. makes me think a bit of a line in that film when were young when the younger adam driver character plays eye of the tiger to ben stiller who says 'i remember when this was just bad!' not sure things have changed THAT much, even post-internet listening habits. its still cheese, but just appreciated a little more for being cheese. but cheese itself hasnt been challenged as an arbiter of good taste.

best bit of the article -

Musically speaking, there are no guilty pleasures in Jamaica. The poet Kei Miller finds the disbelieving foreign response to the sugary side of the island’s musical scene intriguing. “Why do Jamaicans ‘mysteriously’ like these things? It goes back to a question of a kind of cosmopolitan policing of taste,” he says. “The thing about having so-called ‘guilty’ pleasures is that it marks us as superior.” So understanding that you must feel guilty for a love of Barbra Streisand and Barry Gibb’s Guilty, a song named by Daley as a surefire street dance winner, marks you as having good taste. But Jamaicans will have none of this policing. “Jamaica has resisted that hegemonic bullshit of taste and what good taste ought to be,” says Miller. Or, as Russell puts it: “One of the things I love about Jamaica is that there is no judgment in anything. People just get on with everything.” Daley agrees: “Every man to his own order. That’s it, you know.”

this song is fab btw -

 

[mistersloane]

yeah "Guilty" is far from the best example they could have used to elucidate their case.