{"id":1134,"date":"2003-04-21T16:04:03","date_gmt":"2003-04-22T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/21\/things-i-shouldnt-admit-in-public\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T00:36:58","slug":"things-i-shouldnt-admit-in-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/04\/21\/things-i-shouldnt-admit-in-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Things I shouldn&#039;t admit in public"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14794,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com\\\/archives\\\/001440.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030916025346\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.geekmuffin.com:80\\\/archives\\\/001440.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 03:25:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:436},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:46:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:27:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 06:27:19&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12931,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0767808673\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260312041513\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0767808673\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/exec\\\/obidos\\\/ASIN\\\/0767808673\\\/djwudicom-20&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 02:46:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 22:08:16&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 06:18:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-18 06:18:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Well, okay &#8212; since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekmuffin.com\/archives\/001440.html\" title=\"geek*muffin: My dark secrets\">you asked<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I do, occasionally, like some really bad music. I can rationalize it well, but&#8230;(sigh)&#8230;the occasional song does come along that I know I shouldn&#8217;t like, but I do. For example:\n<ul>\n<li>Britney Spears&#8217; &#8216;Oops&#8230;I did it again!&#8217;: I don&#8217;t really know why, but for some reason, this song amuses me to no end. It&#8217;s not one I&#8217;d play over and over, but it&#8217;s not going to get shut off when it comes up in the playlist, either.<\/li>\n<li>Celine Dion&#8217;s &#8216;All Coming Back To Me Now&#8217;: This one, there&#8217;s actually a reason for. The first time I heard this song, I had no clue who sang it, but it <em>sounded<\/em> like a Meatloaf song. Now, I&#8217;ve always liked Meatloaf, and both of his &#8216;Bat out of Hell&#8217; albums were actually written and produced by Jim Steinman. So, just after hearing this song, I called the radio station and asked them who it was, but first I wanted to know if Jim Steinman wrote and produced the song. Turns out he did &#8212; then they told me who the vocalist was. Celine Dion? (sigh) Ah, well &#8212; to me, it&#8217;s a Jim Steinman song.<\/li>\n<li>The Spice Girls&#8217; &#8216;Wannabe&#8217;: Again, I&#8217;m not sure I can really give it a reason. It&#8217;s a fun, bouncy, brainless piece of bubblegum pop, and okay, I like it. Besides, the line &#8220;If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends&#8221; sounds <em>far<\/em> too much like she&#8217;s telling some guy that if he&#8217;s going to sleep with her, he&#8217;s going to have to sleep with all of her friends, too. This amuses me (not to mention that it sounds like a damn good deal&#8230;).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Kind of tied to the last of the three guilty pleasure songs above &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0767808673\/djwudicom-20\" title=\"Spice World\">Spice World<\/a> (the Spice Girls movie) is surprisingly funny. Just trust me on this one &#8212; forget the fact that they were a manufactured pop group, and just sit back and enjoy the silly British humor and the multitudes of cameos. It&#8217;s not nearly as bad as you think. Really.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You know, that&#8217;s enough embarassing myself for the moment. Time to stop before I dig myself any deeper. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know, that&#8217;s enough embarassing myself for the moment. Time to stop before I dig myself any deeper. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035,2043],"tags":[2069,2148,13,2299],"class_list":["post-1134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal","tag-britney-spears","tag-celine-dion","tag-life","tag-the-spice-girls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}