It's guilty pleasures week on Soundcheck -- and that means that it's time to come clean. Do you have a musical guilty pleasure? A genre... an artist... a song that you secretly love but are ashamed to admit it? We want you to call us and tell us about it at 866 939 1612, or you can leave us a comment below in the comments section.
Today, we kick off our discussion with Northwestern University marketing professor Kelly Goldsmith, who's done research on the phenomenon of "guilty pleasures." She's found that feeling guilty about something can actually heighten your level of enjoyment when you indulge. So maybe feeling guilty about your favorite Justin Bieber jam isn't so bad for your psyche after all.
Plus, Grantland writer Andy Greenwald joins us to talk about where guilty pleasures come from -- and why he says that he doesn't have any at all.
Take a listen to the conversation above -- and check out who else we got to confess their guilty pleasures in our audio gallery below.
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Actress and singer Molly Ringwald, on her guilty pleasure:
What about The Partridge Family... David Cassidy? I'll go with that.
Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Maines, on her guilty pleasure, Kris Kross:
I performed their big hit "Jump" my senior lock-in. Girls had to perform as guys and guys had to perform as girls, and me and my friend did our clothes backwards and put little squiggly things all over our hair. I choreographed our whole routine. It was fantastic.
Brooklyn Rider cellist Eric Jacobsen, on his guilty pleasure:
If someone puts on Britney Spears, maybe a little "Oops I Did It Again"... it's like the first bite that you have [of] McDonald's fries. Oh God. Some genius in a laboratory created this just for me.
Producer and musician Brian Eno, on his semi-guilty pleasure:
I'm not really embarrassed about any of my tastes. Though, in England, I have to say, whenever I tell people that I like M People, they go, "M People!" As if I said I like playing with dog turds.
Guitarist Jason Vieaux, on his guilty pleasure:
I'm gonna go with the Carpenters. The stacked harmonies are really amazing. Their records are really fantastic to listen to on a good stereo. The harmony vocals are just stunning.
Singer and multi-instrumentalist Rachel Zeffira, on her guilty pleasure:
I own, I don't know, about 62 harmonicas. I don't even really like harmonicas that much. I just got really carried away. I've got small ones, big ones, one in every key. It's probably preparing for my prison days when I can play some lonesome melodies.
Brooklyn musician Sammy Tunis, on the song that people most-often request to be played by her band, Guilty Pleasure:
The song that comes up a lot is "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. That one really brings the house down. It's a guilty pleasure of a lot of people.