{"id":2985,"date":"2009-07-21T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/what-are-your-embarrassing-son.html"},"modified":"2009-07-21T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-21T12:44:09","slug":"what-are-your-embarrassing-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/what-are-your-embarrassing-son.html","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Favorite Embarrassing Songs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"johndenverpic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/johndenverpic.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"293\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left;margin: 0 20px 20px 0\" \/><\/span>Over on Steven Waldman&#8217;s blog he has a great post on <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/songs-im-embarrassed-to-like.html\" target=\"_blank\">his favorite embarrassing songs.<\/a>  He defines such music as &#8220;songs I secretly play when I&#8217;m alone that I know would mark me as a) unsophisticated b) sappy and c) old.&#8221;<br \/>\nIncluded in his list are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rocky Mountain High by John Denver <\/li>\n<p> (<em>Ick!)<\/em><\/p>\n<li>The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Vicki Lawrence <\/li>\n<p> (<em>The actress from &#8220;Mama&#8217;s Family&#8221;?!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<li>Ring of Fire, version by Olivia Newton John<\/li>\n<p> (<em>Seriously?! I think the Man in Black is rolling over in his grave right now.)<\/em><\/p>\n<li>You&#8217;re the One That I Want from Grease (Olivia Newton John and John Travolta<\/li>\n<p>(<em>Ok, I like this one too&#8230;) <\/em> <\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/stevenwaldman\/2009\/07\/songs-im-embarrassed-to-like.html\" target=\"_blank\">And there&#8217;s more.<\/a><br \/>\nAmong my own embarrassing songs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sister Christian by Night Ranger<\/li>\n<li>Hollaback Girl by Gwen Stefani<\/li>\n<li>Rockstar by Nickleback<\/li>\n<li>Cover Girl by New Kids on the Block<\/li>\n<p> (Really <em>any<\/em> New Kids on the Block song&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>Every Rose Has It&#8217;s Thorn by Poison<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) by Steelheart<\/li>\n<li>Any song by Motley Crue<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Are you brave enough to admit <em>your<\/em> favorites?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over on Steven Waldman&#8217;s blog he has a great post on his favorite embarrassing songs. He defines such music as &#8220;songs I secretly play when I&#8217;m alone that I know would mark me as a) unsophisticated b) sappy and c) old.&#8221; Included in his list are: Rocky Mountain High by John Denver (Ick!) The Night&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What Are Your Favorite Embarrassing Songs?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2009\/07\/what-are-your-embarrassing-son.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What Are Your Favorite Embarrassing Songs?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over on Steven Waldman&#8217;s blog he has a great post on his favorite embarrassing songs. 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