We all have ‘em. Pop songs and boy bands, the occasional folk combo - everybody has something that they’ll probably never want to admit due to the risk of social suicide.

I don’t often have the luxury - or the problem - of dealing with guilty pleasures, though, since I usually don’t bother hiding the songs and groups I listen to. I mean, why should I bother, right? Be proud of what you are. You don’t have much to lose, anyway.

Until these guys came along:

Not only do I listen to Franz Ferdinand, no. Apparently, I like Cobra Starship as well, which is about as pseudo-hipster as you can get, which is why I hesitate to admit to my liking the band.

I can’t help it, though. The video for "The City is at War" is so good that I was entranced. And when I found out that they did something for the b-movie goodness film "Snakes on a Plane," I just couldn’t resist. I just had to hear more from these guys, who blur the lines between pop, art rock and emo, three genres that I, as a rule, avoid like the plague.

So how about you guys? What’re your guilty pleasures?

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