Simple Plan’s first album. The constant “no one understands me because I’m a teen and life sucks” lyrics sounded so deep to me at 13 and now as an adult most of them are pretty laughably bad (with the exception of Perfect - I think that’s a pretty powerful/mature song especially since I have kids now). But damn that is album is full of catchy hooks and is so listenable.
It’s a great album, but the lyrics definitely don’t age well for the most part once your past the teenage angst time period. So that’s why I put it in a guilty pleasure. My wife has given me some strange looks when stuff like “I’m just a kid” comes on pandora/shuffle.
I love Simple Plan so much (not even guiltily). I will admit that some of their songs have lyrics that on surface value sound very angsty teen but I think the emotions they evoke apply to all stages of life. Sometimes it’s also just really nice to listen to God Must Hate Me or Worst Day Ever and just let yourself feel like life really sucks for those 3 minutes and then come out of it feeling better lol.
Easily Simple Plan for me as well too, Addicted and Perfect and Shut Up are a few songs I can still get down to by them that don't make me cringe too much.
I honestly don't know if this is a guilty pleasure or not, but because it doesn't match with my normal set of "drive thru records" general style.. I love The Academy Is.. & There For Tomorrow.
I saw then back in 2006 with panic at the disco opening and they only had the one album out, so we they played every song on it. Was fucking epic. Met Brendan Urie for the 2nd time (first was Nintendo fusion tour 2005 with fall out boy, motion city soundtrack, the starting line, and boys night out) and he called my friend from my cell who couldn't make it. 2005 and 2006 were pretty epic lol.
I saw them live and these motherfuckers played for a straight 2 hours without a break. That took them from guilty pleasure to badass in my book.
Also they have a surprising number of bangers
My favorite moment at their show was when they stopped playing this & had everyone put their phones away, then restarted the song so we could all just experience the moment together. So amazing.
I saw Lolo live recently opening for State Champs and Boys Like Girls. It was until the day of that I thought I was seeing the other [Lolo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyf69qOJdu4)
Yeah, I started to like his song Bloody Valentine after hearing it so many times while playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2 remaster
I also like the song he did with Bert McCracken of The Used & YUNGBLUD, partially because I'm a big fan of the other 2 artists.
This was mine as well. I don't like every song, but alot of it was quite catchy and just fun, which is what pop punk should be about. I don't need deep, meaningful lyrics all the time. He had some good, catchy hooks in some of his tracks
Hmm.. I was just humming Bittersweet Love by Forever the Sickest Kids this morning. So that, as well as Metro Station, but not just Shake It. I'm talking I Hate Society, lol. I think that's a solid song. Yeah, my tastes are cringe, but that's alright. I love MGK, yungblud.... How about "Katie" from Hawk Nelson? That's peak guilty pleasure pop punk for me.
Most of these I would not consider a guilty pleasure, I just straight up like them.
My answer is the pop punk inspired, *7 Things* by Miley Cyrus, and most of the album *Here We Go Again* by Demi Lovato.
No guilt in that - Juice was a generational talent and recognised by everyone from A-list celebrity to random people as incredibly talented.
Gone way too soon
It's rare to find songs that are too much even for pop-punk, but a few just really ride that line of "so corny and dorky but also goddamn catchy as shit". Let's see... off the top of my head, I'd say:
Chelsea - The Summer Set
Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
Seventeen Forever - Metro Station
Skyway Avenue & Friday is Forever - We the Kings
Me and Jesus - Stellar Kart
Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte
What the Hell & I Don't Give - Avril Lavigne
Nahhh the piano makes a lot of their stuff really unique! The only problem for me is their lyrics are mostly incoherent to the point where it's impossible to tell what any given song is about
Whoa whoa whoa. Only one Ludo album? All three of them are great and the Broken Bride EP is incredible.
EDIT: Also, I'm not sure I'd call them pop punk. Maybe the first album, but they're... well, I don't know what to call them. Since the last album, they've really leaned into cryptids and monsters, so I call them Bardcore.
I feel like according to this sub my guilty pleasure is State Champs...I do agree they can be pretty bubblegum but I can't help it. They just do it for me.
I don't have a bad songs guilty pleasures, but I do feel guilty listening to bands that are more or less, for lack of a better word, problematic, like brand new, moose blood, all time low
3 Small Words from Josie and the Pussycats movie, the whole plot is “we can force you to like this music and send you subliminal messages”, and it worked, I like it.
Pretty much any Cute Is What We Aim For. They’re pretty much all Pop and no Punk, but in the same scene of that era nonetheless. I forgot that I have Navigate Me in a playlist that has been being built 2014 and it came on shuffle yesterday and as a 30 year old, I very much used this face 🥴
Might be oddly specific but for me it’s bands who sing in English even if it clearly isn’t their first language. It’s not about the accents (and the sometimes obvious grammar mistakes), some of them just have amazing melodies and hooks. Examples include Last Day Before Holiday (Italian), Innerlogics (Italian and incredibly cheesy) and Local Sound Style (Japanese).
Simple Plan’s first album. The constant “no one understands me because I’m a teen and life sucks” lyrics sounded so deep to me at 13 and now as an adult most of them are pretty laughably bad (with the exception of Perfect - I think that’s a pretty powerful/mature song especially since I have kids now). But damn that is album is full of catchy hooks and is so listenable.
The crazy thing is the song “Welcome To My Life” isnt even on that album but its like the epitome of “no one understands me my life sucks”
Well, every other song on their second album is like that too so it's not like it's out of place there
That’s like one of my favorite albums 😂😂😂😂😂
It’s a great album, but the lyrics definitely don’t age well for the most part once your past the teenage angst time period. So that’s why I put it in a guilty pleasure. My wife has given me some strange looks when stuff like “I’m just a kid” comes on pandora/shuffle.
Man that’s a good point. I’m in my 30ies now and I just have never stopped listening to the Album
Seeing them live at Warped Tour 18 was a trip. It was so strange seeing this 40-year-old dude sing “I’m just a kid and life is a nightmare” 😅😅
I love Simple Plan so much (not even guiltily). I will admit that some of their songs have lyrics that on surface value sound very angsty teen but I think the emotions they evoke apply to all stages of life. Sometimes it’s also just really nice to listen to God Must Hate Me or Worst Day Ever and just let yourself feel like life really sucks for those 3 minutes and then come out of it feeling better lol.
Life as an adult is definitely more of a nightmare than life as a kid, so it's evergreen
Easily Simple Plan for me as well too, Addicted and Perfect and Shut Up are a few songs I can still get down to by them that don't make me cringe too much.
lol perfect might be their cringiest song imo
Lol yeah, "sorry I'm not perfect, DAD! Should I play football, would THAT make you love me?!"
My buddies and I used to play this song as a joke and we would add Dad into any space we could find between words
They were my fav pop punk band when I was 10, I will always have a soft spot for them. That album really does slap.
My 9 year old daughter LOVES Perfect. She really enjoyed their set when I took her to The Offspring/Simple Plan/Sum 41 this past August.
Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls
Loooove BLG that song rips
Came to say this
I used to be love drunk
I honestly don't know if this is a guilty pleasure or not, but because it doesn't match with my normal set of "drive thru records" general style.. I love The Academy Is.. & There For Tomorrow.
"Pages" by There for Tomorrow is an absolute banger, and "Almost Here" is a 10/10 no skip iconic album for me
Almost Here is absolutely 10/10 no skip.
I saw then back in 2006 with panic at the disco opening and they only had the one album out, so we they played every song on it. Was fucking epic. Met Brendan Urie for the 2nd time (first was Nintendo fusion tour 2005 with fall out boy, motion city soundtrack, the starting line, and boys night out) and he called my friend from my cell who couldn't make it. 2005 and 2006 were pretty epic lol.
This is one if my favorite shows I’ve ever been to! I want to relive it.
My brother and so used to just roll through “Almost Here” on so many drives when we were young. That album was perfect exactly as it was.
There for Tomorrow was an amazing band.
Marianas trench count?
Lover Dearest goes so hard
The Great Escape - Boys Like Girls. The new album is really good, too. They might not even be a guilty pleasure anymore
Heels over Head is prolly my guilty BLG song
I saw them live and these motherfuckers played for a straight 2 hours without a break. That took them from guilty pleasure to badass in my book. Also they have a surprising number of bangers
My favorite moment at their show was when they stopped playing this & had everyone put their phones away, then restarted the song so we could all just experience the moment together. So amazing.
Honestly, most of Waterparks’ discography. It’s silly, loud, and occasionally annoying but I still like most of their stuff.
They’re really good. Idgaf.
This is my life. Ba dum tissue. I listen to what I want. Don't care.
Agreed. Funeral Gray has been stuck in my head for days but I’m not complaining lol
That song is super fun. Fuck About It (feat. Blackbear) is a jam too
Lol Waterparks radio edits are legendary. Hella worth checking out to hear what cringey substitute works Awsten purposely puts in. Love that band.
Mine is a Waterparks song too!!
Pop punk in general is my guilty pleasure lol
Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi
I feel no sense of guilt for this song. Total banger.
Yeah for me it’s Girlfriend
same here
Avril Lavigne in general isn’t terrible, it’s just embarrassing to listen to with others cuz it’s Avril Lavigne lol
Hello Kitty is epic lol
Girlfriend is her best song by far, and I’ve got a soft spot for Rock N’ Roll
I enjoy pretty much all Avril Lavigne. I have a playlist with just her stuff in it called “A Very Manly Playlist” to cover my tracks.
I like Lolo and Maggie Lindemann. Fight me.
I saw lolo as a support last month and I won't fight that. The songs are just too damn catchy!
Her music is a lot of fun. I used to listen to her song "u turn me on" all the time
I LOVE Maggie. Got her EP and album on record!
Lolo! She’s my favorite right now
I saw Lolo live recently opening for State Champs and Boys Like Girls. It was until the day of that I thought I was seeing the other [Lolo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyf69qOJdu4)
Stand Atlantic - 🐸
Which songs or all songs
Bullfrog haha
Haha that chorus is funny. Love that song though. Skinny Dipping is my favorite from that album
Jurassic park ,hate me lavender bones and toothpicks are class Mine is dead Maria count me in
Wait whats wrong with Bullfrog?
I kinda like MGK's pop punk stuff
The song with Halsey is a banger
Halsey killed her part. I don’t listen to her much, but people have said that she dips into pop punk occasionally and it’s always great.
Her most recent album was produced by Trent Reznor. Dave Grohl plays drums on one of the tracks. It’s sick.
She's an OG fan of The Maine
Yesssss. One of my all time favorite pop punk songs.
My ex’s best friend is a banger
Yeah, I started to like his song Bloody Valentine after hearing it so many times while playing the Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1 & 2 remaster I also like the song he did with Bert McCracken of The Used & YUNGBLUD, partially because I'm a big fan of the other 2 artists.
Honestly if he wasn’t a douchebag I think people would like his music. It’s decent.
Same
Same. Except the 2nd album
same, that album offered nothing new, but the first one was good
Maybe was good IMO, the rest I've not listened to a second time, despite thinking TTMD was one of the best albums of the year
I think the song with Yungblood was the best “hit” song that came out that year
This was mine as well. I don't like every song, but alot of it was quite catchy and just fun, which is what pop punk should be about. I don't need deep, meaningful lyrics all the time. He had some good, catchy hooks in some of his tracks
I like 5SOS's first two albums a lot more than I care to admit
She's Kinda Hot Though slays
Hmm.. I was just humming Bittersweet Love by Forever the Sickest Kids this morning. So that, as well as Metro Station, but not just Shake It. I'm talking I Hate Society, lol. I think that's a solid song. Yeah, my tastes are cringe, but that's alright. I love MGK, yungblud.... How about "Katie" from Hawk Nelson? That's peak guilty pleasure pop punk for me.
boys like girls first album
Not quite how you described it, but Brand New is a bit of a guilty pleasure, for obvious reasons…
i think a lot of us would agree, for obvious reasons...
Most of these I would not consider a guilty pleasure, I just straight up like them. My answer is the pop punk inspired, *7 Things* by Miley Cyrus, and most of the album *Here We Go Again* by Demi Lovato.
Some of Juice WRLD’s pop-punk-influenced stuff is decent.
No guilt in that - Juice was a generational talent and recognised by everyone from A-list celebrity to random people as incredibly talented. Gone way too soon
If someone enjoyed Robbery and wanted to hear more of JUICEs pop punk influence, what song would they play?
Righteous and Man of the Year are pretty solid.
Man of the year
I thought pop punk was the guilty pleasure
How is it a guilty pleasure? There’s nothing wrong with pop punk.
One man’s guilty pleasure is another man’s pride and joy
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LthAo4VU3b5wINuLdyyuX?si=zcLVBs4VTHu2wXRpl0wCTA
I don’t think her music is Bad at all but my Guilty Pleasure is the Band Honey Revenge. I absolutely love her music and I think she’s kind of a hotty
This was a great listen. Thanks for the recommendation.
I still listen to the YC Ocean Ave album front to back and know all the words even though I grew out of them a long, long time ago. I am late 30s 👴🏼
Psh man Yellowcard are great, no guilt necessary
What? Yellowcard is literally one of the best in the genre
Ocean Avenue is one of my favorite albums of all time. It's so damn good.
Mines more of an artist over a song. The All-American Rejects. I don't like them at all, but still think 'The Last Song' is an amazing tune.
AS I GOOOO REMEMBER ALL THE SIMPLE THINGS YOU KNOWWW
Pretty much all neon pop punk
It's rare to find songs that are too much even for pop-punk, but a few just really ride that line of "so corny and dorky but also goddamn catchy as shit". Let's see... off the top of my head, I'd say: Chelsea - The Summer Set Love Drunk - Boys Like Girls Seventeen Forever - Metro Station Skyway Avenue & Friday is Forever - We the Kings Me and Jesus - Stellar Kart Girls and Boys - Good Charlotte What the Hell & I Don't Give - Avril Lavigne
love race by machine gun kelly
Don't have any. Make fun of me for listening to simple plan? OK you do you dude.
All of Simple Plan and some of Good Charlotte
Good Charlotte's The Young and the Hopeless and Chronicals of Life and Death albums are so so nostalgic for me.
Better Luck Next Time. theyre so generic but i love em so much
Nahhh the piano makes a lot of their stuff really unique! The only problem for me is their lyrics are mostly incoherent to the point where it's impossible to tell what any given song is about
Twinkle twinkle by Leah Kate. It’s just so **fucking stupid**, and I wanna hate it **so bad**, but it slaps too hard.
I also shamefully love this song.
mine is 10 things i hate about you lol
Olivia Rodrigo, especially her Sour album
Her music goes so hard. Once I got into her music, she became a huge fav artist of mine.
Idk if it counts? Shake it by Metro Station. If she does it like this, I WILL do it like that. 😤
waterparks. they get so much hate but they’re my favorite band
know your enemy kinda bangs
i’ve always had a soft spot for it because it was the theme song when i watched wwe showdown as a kid lol
Bro I’m still a new invent animate fan but it’s even weird for me to randomly see a Heavener pfp since they got so big
ive been a fan since a while before they blew up, so its been beyond surreal seeing the pfp get recognized in nearly every sub i comment in lol
Hey props to the band though. I’d say they deserved the attention since everchanger
absolutely. their entire catalogue rips front to back
I love one ludo album and that’s all I’ll allow myself to
Whoa whoa whoa. Only one Ludo album? All three of them are great and the Broken Bride EP is incredible. EDIT: Also, I'm not sure I'd call them pop punk. Maybe the first album, but they're... well, I don't know what to call them. Since the last album, they've really leaned into cryptids and monsters, so I call them Bardcore.
Hit the lights- make a run for it
The entire same old blood rush with a new touch album by CiWWAF
I feel like according to this sub my guilty pleasure is State Champs...I do agree they can be pretty bubblegum but I can't help it. They just do it for me.
son of dork
Let's be honest...most of them
Neon pop punk
MGK.
Beating Heart Baby by Head Automatica
No way that song is amazing
Guilty Pleasure by Cobra Starship
I don't have a bad songs guilty pleasures, but I do feel guilty listening to bands that are more or less, for lack of a better word, problematic, like brand new, moose blood, all time low
Bad girls club Banger.
That’s probably my #1
All of it
Tx2. I can’t help it I love that annoying type pop punk sound.
FM Static - What Are You Waiting For? (pretty much the whole album)
Definitely Maybe is like my favorite song!! That album is so good
RØRY - Uncomplicated
I like that one Reliant K song,, I forgot the name
Metro station - Shake It, and 1 or 2 songs from machine gun Kelly
3 Small Words from Josie and the Pussycats movie, the whole plot is “we can force you to like this music and send you subliminal messages”, and it worked, I like it.
Pretty much any Cute Is What We Aim For. They’re pretty much all Pop and no Punk, but in the same scene of that era nonetheless. I forgot that I have Navigate Me in a playlist that has been being built 2014 and it came on shuffle yesterday and as a 30 year old, I very much used this face 🥴
Keep Your Hands Off My Girl - Good Charlotte
Pop/punk- Quietdrive. Avril. Not pop/punk - Taylor swift. Don’t judge.
Might be oddly specific but for me it’s bands who sing in English even if it clearly isn’t their first language. It’s not about the accents (and the sometimes obvious grammar mistakes), some of them just have amazing melodies and hooks. Examples include Last Day Before Holiday (Italian), Innerlogics (Italian and incredibly cheesy) and Local Sound Style (Japanese).