Guilty pleasures! What does that really mean?
I am a firm believer that everyone is entitled to their own musical taste no matter how naff I might think it.
At a recent private party I DJed on of the younger guests came forward with her requests and felt the need to apologise for them*. I leant across to her and said “never apologise for what you like!”
The concept of the “guilty pleasure” has always wrankled me a bit since I first heard it used in the mid 1990s. It seems to be steeped in the notion of the canon, of what is good and by definition, of what isn’t! I like what I like and think I am entitled to do so.
My musical taste is, and always has been broad. I like things as diverse as Beethoven, and Betty Boo, all the way through to The Buzzcocks and Burt Bacharach**. Ultimately the diversity of what I like and what I play is, I suppose, where the origin of the moniker NonJudgementalDJ comes from. I like multiple musical genres and a multitude of musical styles. I cavort with the classical and bounce along to the banal… and, I am very happy doing so. I don’t really care if you think it naff but I do care that you can dance to stuff you want to hear (even if I think it’s a bit naff).
* I thought they were quite respectable requests to be fair!
** I also like other musical artists who begin with letters other than “B”
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