Yeah, I can't believe Elton John, Prince, Kenny Rogers, Roy Orbison, etc. are considered guilty pleasures. These are considered all-time great musicians so why would they be a guilty pleasure? To me a guilty pleasure is something that is considered to be "bad", have no substance or is cheesy, such as boy bands, britney/christina types, kenny g, etc. My guilty pleasures using this definition would have to be JoJo (the female singer, not K-Ci &), New Found Glory (on the no substance issue), Miley Cyrus (yeah I know it's awful). A few songs I'd include are Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Never Surrender by Stan Bush (from Kickboxer), and Hold On by Wilson Phillips. Edited to respond to previous post: I still consider Sunny Day to be emo, just a different type of emo. There was the first type in the mid 80s and then Sunny Day and Texas is the Reason in the early to late 90s. By the 2000s, I think real emo just about died out, yet the term continued to be used. It's a shame because a lot of the original emo bands would get a bad rap being referred to as emo nowadays. New "emo" is basically pop-punk crap (though I still like some of it like NFG and Sum 41) or pseudo teenage angst "i'm 16 i hate my parents my life sucks i wanna die but instead i'm just going to wear all black and get an awful haircut."