Everybody has them – few people talk about them: Their guilty pleasures. Let me tell you about some of mine:
When I was 13 or 14 years old, Britney Spears came up and had huge success with her first single “Baby One More Time.” At first, I thought “Not another one of these girl singers with stupid pop songs.” However, the more I heard her songs I actually started to like the music. I bought her first single, then her second, and her third, then her first album, and so on. Additionally, being thirteen years old and in the middle of puberty, boys easily have crushes on pretty girls. Guess that happened to me with Britney. So soon enough, my room was filled with posters and pictures of her. When I was 16 or 17 I started to grow out of that guilty pleasure. Still, I am big fan of many female singers like Alicia Keys, Joss Stone, or Beyonce Knowles.
Around that age, another guilty pleasure of mine started: I started to write novels. Well, that might not sound so bad; there are many male authors, however, only few of them write about typical girl topics, like high school, love, and drama. Yeah, I did that, and actually wrote about 300 pages. There is no way I would ever give them to anyone to read. However, it helped me a lot to become the writer I am today, and to be honest. Sometimes, when I am bored, I still keep writing on those stories. Nowadays, I tend to write about actual life stories and rather in form of a movie or TV-show script.
My last guilty pleasure really isn’t one, because I honestly admit to this topic and talk about it: Watching girly TV-shows like Gilmore Girls, Grey’s Anatomy, or even Hannah Montana. However, these shows work for me on different levels. Grey’s Anatomy was one of the first shows I really followed from first to last episode, and it was also the first show I watched completely in English. Actually, I watched the first season in German, but I needed to know how it went on, and season two was only available in English. So I owe my good English speaking skills partially to this show. Anyway, I really like Grey because of the stories; they really fascinated me. Gilmore Girls was more about the actresses. Alexis Bledel and Lauren Graham are both really good at their job, and it was incredible to see their connection in front of the camera. Last, yes I admit I watched all Hannah Montana episodes. In the beginning I wanted to see what all the fuzz was about. Then I was interested in the story about the girl living two different sides of her live, which then kept me watching the show, since I wanted to know how the authors were developing the stories. I really don’t like Hannah’s music, not am I that astound by Miley’s acting job, but I was really interested in the script.
So, I realize know that these stories are not really the best examples for guilty pleasures. However, that is kind of how feel about them. Maybe you want to share some of your guilty pleasures with me?!
