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This week's theme: Guilty Pleasures

Just when I think we were all starting to tire a bit from the One Hit Wonders, this week in "The Soundtrack of Your Life"  we get to talk about what is arguably one step up from the 1HW: the Guilty Pleasure . And I think there are a couple of ways this can be approached:

It's something you generally listen to in private...no one would ever imagine you're in to something like it. (The problem with that theory is that I've done so many Soundtrackers activities and have shared hundreds of videos in all types of blog entries, so my music library is literally an open book now .)

The biggest different between a One Hit Wonder and a Guilty Pleasure? The artist associated with the Guilty Pleasure doesn't just have to be one-and-done. It could be a multi-platinum, world renowned megastar who has been around for five decades and has more #1s than the unabridged history of every Veterans' Day ever.

I think I asked something similar once in a "30-Day Blogging Challenge ON HIATUS"  prompt over the summer about "guilty pleasures", and received some interesting responses. One that really stuck with me is that there are no such things as "guilty pleasures"...I listen to what I listen to and I'm not ashamed at all because of it. Word.

And that third point is the one I'm probably stickin' with the most throughout this week. These are my songs, right? And IDGAF. Besides, we're all friends here  . I know you won't judge me (too harshly ).

So, ok then. I'm gonna piggyback on ♥noVember tHiNg♥ 's entry from earlier today, "Soundtrackers Day 8 - Dean Martin" . She went with a Dean Martin song, and perhaps some of you may not be aware that I am a fan of The Rat Pack in general (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., et al.). I last wrote about Martin in October's "Resurrection Jukebox"  ("This one's about the Rez Juke catch-up (9 of 9)." ), and I'm sure I've mentioned him once or twice before, but today I'm goin' with what is probably my all-time Rat Pack favorite.

And the funny thing about this is I don't have a good story associated with it. I just like the song. If that makes me guilty of anything, then I don't wanna be innocent.

"Brother you don't know a nicer occupation...
matter of fact, neither do I."
Lyrics.  

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Ok...time to concentrate on the poem for "Give It 100!"  (for once I kinda already have an idea that's more than just a couple random lines scrawled out )- that'll show up later today in "100" ...and then I got a review request (?? ) for the final chapter of what appears to be a memoir ( )...I haven't read any of the other chapters, so I guess I'll know how it turns out before I know anything else, and that should save me a whole lotta time . Anything to keep me off the corner, I guess... .