80s Guilty Pleasures: Blast Them Loud

0:00What's up? I'm Corey with The Story, and these are your entertainment and celebrity headlines. Everyone has those secret songs they love, but won't admit to. The so-called, guilty pleasures that clash with our polished music tastes. A recent article rounds up 10 stand-out tracks, mostly from the 1980s, like Totals Africa and Journeys Don't Stop Believing, Urging, listeners to own up and blast them loud. These pick-span power ballads and synth-driven pop, including Bon Jovi's liven on a prayer about a couple scraping by, and WAM is upbeat, wake me up before you go-go. The author points out how tracks, like Scorpion's Rocky-like or Hurricane, hook you with killer riffs despite cringy lyrics. Fans often hide their fondness, because the songs feel too cheesy, or over the top, from Bonnie Tyler's dramatic, total eclipse of the heart to dead or, a live's earworm. You spin me round. Yet they stick in your head, resurfacing in shows like The Sopranos or even Insurance

1:00ads. Even simpler tunes endure, such as Europe's, the final countdown with its looping keyboard riff, or Olivia Newton-John's physical and Tony Basel's, cheerleader Anthem Mickey. The list sparks debates on what makes a banger versus a secret shame. Plenty of us cue them up on Spotify anyway, proving these 80s relics still deliver that irresistible rush, no matter the embarrassment.