Who Sang I Want to Know What Love Is
Everyone has a song or two that they can't aid but love. Possibly the shell is also outdated or the lyrics are too schmaltzy to appear on a Hallmark card, just it doesn't matter. The song can e'er find its mode into your favorite playlists.
It's time to have off those headphones and plow the dial to max book, because nosotros're virtually to celebrate the best and almost embarrassing guilty pleasure songs of all time.
Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping" (1997)
Did anyone know what "Tubthumping" was well-nigh? Did information technology matter? The vocal came out of nowhere with random lyrics nigh booze and a chorus recorded at the globe's happiest Irish pub. Get knocked down, become upward over again — and keep drinking!
It turns out "tubthumping" is an Irish phrase for going to bars and drinking with your mates after protesting. Information technology makes sense when you remember Chumbawamba was a commonage of anarchists and libertarian socialists.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: I get knocked downwardly (we'll be singing) / Only I get upwardly again (pissing the night abroad)
Blink-182, "All The Small Things" (1999)
Fifty-fifty if you weren't 15 when this vocal came out, Glimmer-182'southward music can make you experience like a rowdy teenager. You're not former enough to drive yet, but you're nevertheless erstwhile enough to become into some trouble. The catchy sing-forth was a perfect catalyst for thrashing nearly and feeling totally foolish.
Xx years later, the pop-rock smash all the same has legs at karaoke bars. Information technology's 1 of those annoying little tunes you can't help only sing forth to.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: Late night / Come abode / Work sucks / I know
Bobby Pickett, "Monster Brew" (1962)
In '62, music makers topped the charts with novelty songs about kooky monsters or foolish trip the light fantastic moves (retrieve "Regal People Eater"?!). Bobby "Boris" Pickett had the genius idea of combining those trends for an instant Halloween archetype.
It'south non a socially acceptable song for xi months out of the year, but come October, this foolish anthem is a Halloween-party playlist staple.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: The ghouls all came from their apprehensive abodes / To get a jolt from my electrodes
Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime" (1981)
Are you in the right job? Is your clock moving besides rapidly? Are you in the throngs of an existential crisis? If these or whatsoever other reality-warping questions are in your head, then boom "Once in a Lifetime" at full volume.
While you're at information technology, don't forget to dance in public similar David Byrne in the iconic video. People will expect at y'all like you're crazy, simply possibly they're the crazy ones.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful business firm?" / You may enquire yourself, "Where does that highway go to?"
Earth, Wind and Fire, "September" (1978)
Information technology'due south the disco song played at every wedding. But admit it — you kinda like it. Yes, the chorus includes a strange assortment of sounds that mean nothing. But a song without any decipherable significant is universally enjoyable!
Disco has a reputation for existence cheesy, and "September" is one of the cheesiest disco tracks ever. Simply no one likes the bump-on-the-log at weddings, so get upwards and "Ba de ya" with the rest of usa.
Foreign Still Super Catchy Lyrics: Ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember? / Ba-dee-ya, dancin' in September / Ba-dee-ya, never was a cloudy day
Celine Dion, "It'southward All Coming Back to Me Now" (1995)
Ability ballads from the '80s and '90s can sound pretty campy. They're meant to exist emotionally charged and powerful, but in about cases, they sound pretty absurd. Take Celine Dion's classic "It'south All Coming Back to Me Now," the virtually over-the-tiptop carol of all fourth dimension.
The exaggerated emotional drama is off the charts, which makes it perfect to play in a karaoke bar.
Strange Still Super Catchy Lyrics: There were things I'd never practice again / Just and so they'd always seemed right / There were nights of endless pleasure / It was more than any laws allow
The Doors, "People Are Strange" (1967)
The Doors could go along their fans guessing. Their songs could incorporate energetic dejection-rock or be 12-minute-long psychedelic masterpieces. Merely sometimes, they would come up out of left field and release songs similar "People Are Strange."
The best way to bask a song this bizarre is to walk around your habitation like a zombie made of rubber bands. Information technology's jazzy. It's sultry. And it's a great song to play if yous want to freak out the neighbors.
Strange However Super Tricky Lyrics: People are strange when you're a stranger / Faces wait ugly when you're alone
La Bouche, "Be My Lover" (1995)
La Bouche hitting it big with "Sugariness Dreams" dorsum in '94. Their sound was a perfect fit for the ultrafast dance songs that dominated the early '90s. So why reinvent the wheel? "Exist My Lover" was essentially the aforementioned track but performed even ameliorate than their get-go unmarried.
The aggressive trip the light fantastic toe track is far from romantic, but it's hard not to want to be La Bouche'south lover.
Strange Even so Super Catchy Lyrics: My dearest is definitely the primal / Like Boyz II Men, I'm on bended knee / Loving yous, not like your brother, ah yep /I want to exist your lover
Dead Or Live, "You Spin Me Round (Similar a Tape)" (1985)
New moving ridge and synth-popular are two musical genres that produce a lot of guilty pleasure music. Dead Or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Similar a Record)" is a archetype example of a new wave guilty pleasure.
The song'south message is so simple a child could explain its intent. But it'southward Pete Burns' epic crescendo at the span that makes this i of the campiest new moving ridge songs of all fourth dimension.
Strange Even so Super Tricky Lyrics: You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round / Like a record, infant, right 'round, 'round, 'round
Pitbull, "I Know You lot Desire Me (Calle Ocho)" (2009)
Ah, Pitbull. Your mother likes to dance to his music at weddings, and she ever raves well-nigh him when he'due south on Television. Only if she were to actually pay attention to the lyrics of his songs, she might sing a different melody.
His breakout hit had a philharmonic of catchy horns, spanglish come-ons and shout-outs to filmmakers that brand it a universal guilty pleasure.
Foreign Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: Got her in the cockpit playin' with Pit's (Como?) / At present watch me make a movie like Albert Hitchcock, ha
Annotation: (He meant to say "Alfred Hitchcock")
Spice Girls, "Wannabe" (1996)
The Spice Girls' positivity and derisive personalities fabricated them global icons in the '90s. "Wannabe" was their signature song that was possibly about getting their lovers to sleep with their friends.
It didn't matter what they were saying because nosotros're all wired to sing forth to "I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I WANT, WHAT I Really, REALLY WANT!" "Then TELL ME WHAT YOU Want, WHAT YOU REALLY, REALLY Want!"
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
Modern English, "I Melt With You lot" (1982)
"I Cook With You" is the cutest new wave song almost finding love at the terminate of the world. It feels similar it'due south meant to play as rain begins to pour at the end of a prom in 1982. And who doesn't honey a little melodrama at their prom, amirite?
The song was Modern English's top-performing song, and it still brings in income thanks to appearances on shows like Stranger Things.
Strange Yet Super Tricky Lyrics: I saw the globe crashing all around your face / Never really knowing information technology was always / Mesh and lace
Whitesnake, "Here I Become Again" (1982)
Permit's all agree that '80s arena stone was super cheesy. The cliché lyrics nigh girls and partying. The leather. The hairspray. It's all way too much. Whitesnake's "Hither I Become Again" is a standout arena anthem about battling loneliness on a search for love.
Its accompanying video had a scantily clad woman, of course, doing cartwheels on luxury cars, so they clearly weren't taking the song seriously. You shouldn't, either.
Strange Withal Super Catchy Lyrics: I'one thousand just another heart in demand of rescue / Waiting on love's sweetness charity
Toto, "Africa" (1982)
Before recording "Africa," Toto'south biggest striking of all time, the band had never been to Africa. In fact, they wrote the song because they wondered how they could help the continent after seeing a documentary about it on Television set.
It'southward weird to gloat a band who wrote a song virtually how they could help a place they'd never been to before, but nosotros guess that's what makes Africa a guilty pleasure.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: I bless the rains downward in Africa / Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
Usher feat. Lil Jon & Ludacris, "Yeah!" (2003)
Usher's musical career typically stayed within the realm of smoothen, seductive R&B. But "Yeah!" was his opportunity to have his fans to the trip the light fantastic toe flooring with a tricky crush. And any song with Lil Jon and Ludacris, arguably hip hop's most ridiculous court jesters, automatically propels the song into "guilty pleasance" territory.
Strange Nevertheless Super Catchy Lyrics: Watch out, my outfit's ridiculous / In the club looking then conspicuous / And roar, these women all on the prowl / If you agree the head steady, I'ma milk the cow (yes!)
The Bangles, "Walk Like an Egyptian" (1986)
In 2019, glamorizing cultures with stereotypical tropes can exist problematic. The Bangles' '86 hit skirts the line between questionable and celebratory with a trip the light fantastic move that probably only gets used during this song. Seriously, when is the concluding fourth dimension you've seen someone walk like an Egyptian on a dance flooring?
Strange Nevertheless Super Tricky Lyrics: All the boutique men by the Nile / They got the money on a bet / Gilt crocodiles (oh-way-oh) / They snap their teeth on your cigarette / Strange types with the hookah pipes say / (Style-oh-way-oh, ooh-way-oh-way-oh)
Taking Back Lord's day, "Cute Without the 'E' (Cutting From the Team)" (2002)
When you lot're young and in love, a failed relationship can experience similar the end of the world. Taking Back Sunday'due south rapturous ode to a young love lost perfectly captures how maudlin mourning a failed relationship tin can exist when you're 15.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: Hoping for the all-time just hoping nothing happens / A thousand clever lines unread on clever napkins / I will never ask if you don't always tell me / I know yous well plenty to know you'll never love me
La Roux, "Bulletproof" (2009)
"Impenetrable" sounds like a pixie with gravity-defying hair got angry at you for not paying enough attention to her. Don't become us incorrect — La Roux'southward piercing falsetto pairs well with the song'southward buzzing synths, simply when it's played at full volume information technology's not always a oversupply-pleaser.
Foreign Still Super Catchy Lyrics: Do, practise, do your dingy words / Come out to play when you are injure? / There's sure things that should be left unsaid / Tick, tick, tick, tick on the spotter / And life's also curt for me to stop
Grace Jones, "Pull Up to the Bumper" (1981)
Grace Jones is an artist like no other — a statuesque, gender-bending innovator with a voice similar a hurricane. Her music tin can be complex, avant-garde and downright out of this world. But her nearly successful hit, "Pull Up to the Bumper," has some of the cheesiest double entendres ever.
The song is by and large clever wordplay almost sex but told through auto references. It's a foolish gimmick, which makes information technology a total guilty pleasure.
Strange Yet Super Tricky Lyrics: Pull up to it / Don't bulldoze through it / Dorsum it upward twice / At present that fits nice
Filter, "Take a Picture" (1999)
Culling rock in the '90s had some of the genre'southward most introspective music. Nirvana, Radiohead and Rage Against the Motorcar all made songs that dealt with serious personal problems. Filter's "Accept a Picture" tried to audio serious but wound upwards sounding similar a sappy after-schoolhouse special.
The song covers serious bug like neglect and addiction, simply at its climactic bridge, the song turns into a self-indulgent rock star'due south complaining.
Strange Nonetheless Super Catchy Lyrics: Hey dad, what do you call back about your son at present?
Hey dad, what do y'all think about your son at present?
Sublime, "Santeria" (1996)
Accept you ever been to a beachside dive bar with sand all over the floor? If you have, chances are y'all've heard Sublime's ode to revenge on a cheating lover. Non but did the late Brad Nowell threaten to notice a new girlfriend, just he also planned to shoot the cheater'due south new lover.
It'due south revenge porn for SoCal surfers, simply it's still catchy enough to make you lot want a margarita.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: I don't practice Santeria, I ain't got no crystal ball / Well, I had a million dollars, but I'd, I'd spend information technology all
City High, "What Would You Do?" (2001)
The R&B trio City High hit it big in 2001 with a warning for youngsters to avert stripping and gang violence. Information technology sounds similar a depressing song if yous haven't heard it before, but trust us, it's meant to exist uplifting.
If you're around a crowd of former T.R.L. teens and start the song'due south opening line, you'll come across how many people will chime in with every sappy lyric.
Strange All the same Super Tricky Lyrics: Then for you this is just a good time, but for me this is what I call life
Gigi D'Agostino, "I'll Fly with You (Bla Bla Bla remix)" (1999)
In the tardily '90s and early 2000s, European synth-pop had taken over nightclubs. One of the men at the middle of the invasion was the larger-than-life Italian DJ Gigi D'Agostino. His songs were all fluffy romance tracks, but they were likewise incredibly catchy.
His biggest hitting was a combination of his other hits "50'amour Toujours" and "Bla Bla Bla." A totally sappy banger you won't be able to get out of your caput.
Strange Nonetheless Super Catchy Lyrics: I all the same believe in your optics / There is no choice / I belong to your life
four Not Blondes, "What's Upwardly" (1993)
When you think virtually the song's bulletin, "What's Up" was alee of its fourth dimension. It called for peace, equality and agreement of the manner the world works. Information technology could honestly practise quite well given today'south electric current political climate.
All the same, if you get out your house and scream "What'southward going on?!" at the top of your lungs, you may wind upwardly on YouTube for the wrong reasons.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: And I say, hey-ey-ey / Hey-ey-ey / I said "Hey, a-what'south going on?"
Vanessa Carlton, "A Thousand Miles" (2002)
Vanessa Carlton made more than than a piano carol. Her charming song and its accompanying orchestrations were joyful explosions of sincerity. She never landed a song that was every bit successful, only she actually doesn't demand to.
The vocal amassed its own cult following. From frat boys on dance floors to metalheads who like to mash it together with heavier songs, Carlton has a timeless guilty pleasance on her hands.
Strange Yet Super Tricky Lyrics: If I could fall into the sky / Do you recollect time would pass me by?
Madonna, "Hung Up" (2005)
Madonna holds the tape for the near number i songs on Billboard's Trip the light fantastic Club chart. It's safe to say she knew her away around a dance floor, which is why her 2005 anthology Confessions on a Trip the light fantastic Flooring performed and so well.
"Hung Up," the anthology's lead single, took the hook from Abba'south "Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Homo After Midnight)" and turned it into a campier dance flooring classic.
Foreign Nevertheless Super Catchy Lyrics: Every little affair that y'all say or practise / I'm hung upward, I'k hung upwards on you
Journeying, "Don't Stop Believin'" (1981)
Sometimes a song tin can be so oversaturated that it can be embarrassing to admit you like it. That shouldn't exist the example with Journeying'southward signature song. Certain, it's ane of the about downloaded songs of all time on iTunes and plays at every karaoke bar and sporting issue. Who cares?!
Whether it means something deeply introspective or is pure Hallmark schmaltz, permit yourself to love this gem.
Foreign Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: Don't stop believin' / Hold on to that feeling
Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Get-Become" (1984)
If you need an upbeat guilty pleasure song, look no further. Wham!'due south wishy-washy love song is so corny Ned Flanders would likely brand it his karaoke go-to. They're able to reference Doris Day and the Jitterbug while sounding totally sincere.
It'south the kind of vocal that can melt the coldest of hearts and turn the biggest frowns upside down. Just give in and get that boom-boom upwards in your heart.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: You accept the gray skies out of my style / You make the dominicus shine brighter than Doris Day
Carly Rae Jepsen "Telephone call Me Mayhap" (2011)
Some songs are so sweetness they raise your blood sugar. Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" is one of the happiest and most infectious earworms of all time. Spotify even revealed Jepsen's signature track appears the nearly on their male users' "guilty pleasance" playlists.
It doesn't fifty-fifty matter that she sounds a little nuts when she confesses to missing you before she even meets y'all.
Strange Yet Super Catchy Lyrics: Before you came into my life, I missed you so bad
Seal, "Buss From a Rose" (1994)
Seal, the debonair and dreamy crooner, made guilty pleasure history with his brooding R&B archetype "Kiss From a Rose." Information technology was released at a time when Enya and other ethereal artists made songs that were perfect for the waiting room at the dentist'southward function.
Simply permit'due south be real. If Seal were to announced from behind the door with a rose and say, "The md volition see yous at present," y'all would immediately drop everything and follow that human.
Strange Withal Super Tricky Lyrics: But did y'all know that when information technology snows / My eyes get large and / The light that you shine can't be seen?
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