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June 23, 2005
Can I make it any more obvious?
I was driving home yesterday when I reached into my gigantic CD wallet and pulled out one of those crazy mix CD's I made many moons ago. One of the first songs on it was the Avril Lavigne staple "Sk8r Boi." I love this song. Love it. I could probably be forced to listen to it on an endless loop like I was being interrogated at Gitmo and never break, because the song is that awesome. And I ashamed to admit that.
You see, Avril is a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. I'm a guy. I'm not 17. I don't wear black. And I don't really like that crap new punk rock that much. But I love Avril. This is because, as some punk rock devotees have said, Avril is not really punk. Which is probably true.
But it reminded me of what is, by far, my most guilty pleasure. I can't believe I am telling you this. I love Dido. I own all her CD's. I'll actually stop what I am doing and watch VH1 shows about her. Dido rocks my world.
All this would be a moot point if stupid Eminem hadn't sampled Dido in his song "Stan." After that happened, Dido blew up all over the world, and her lilting soft rock proclamations seeped into every sorority girl's Winamp playlist. I'm happy for Dido, but also a little upset the whole fame thing.
I was actually a Dido fan long before that whole Stan thing happened. On one of my typical late night goof-off sessions in college, I was watching Later with Cynthia Bryant, which was really a very good show, unlike the current occupier of the post-Conan O'Brien slot, Carson Daly. Cynthia's guest was Dido, and she played three or four songs and impressed me greatly. I said, Hey, I like this Dido chick. I bought her CD. I said, Hey, I like this Dido CD.
And from there Dido gradually wormed her way into becoming my number one guilty pleasure. When she became so famous I was fairly mortified, but I can deal with that. I still love ya, Dido. But now that I have revealed my most awful secret to you, I think I will go committ ritual suicide. Bye.
Posted by oz115 at June 23, 2005 09:24 AM