What is cheesy music

The popularity of The Eurovision Song Contest only provides further evidence for our love of the tacky, cheesy, and just plain odd in music. Despite the declining popularity of traditional television as streaming services take over, the Eurovision song contest has consistently maintained high viewing figures in the UK, drawing in 7.

Eurovision alumni ABBA are practically a case study for the endurance of cheese, having seen meteoric stardom and two wildly popular feature films built entirely on their songs, despite their unashamedly poppy music and spangled lycra costumes. So why has music often condemned as tasteless and tacky been able to remain at the heart of pop culture? A wider epidemic of cultural nostalgia could be to blame, with film photography also seeing a resurgence in recent years, and vintage garms becoming the norm.

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Sign in. Privacy Policy. Kwik Way - Wikipedia. Last edited: Apr 21, Location: British Columbia. Any Doors track with organ. SoporJoe , Apr 21, Location: Boise, Idaho. Location: Savannah, Georgia. Goofy and ridiculous if it's good cheese. Tacky and cringeworthy if it's bad cheese. Zoot Marimba , Apr 21, Location: Eastern United States. Anything by the likes of Journey, Asia, Survivor, Europe, etc.

SurrealCereal , Apr 21, Location: Newark, California United States. Location: Atlanta. Cheesy is context-dependent.

You'd do better to as an individual who calls a particular track "cheesy" why he does so rather than trying to ask people to create a one size fits all example.

NorthNY Mark likes this. Location: salem, or. Show Ignored Content. Share This Page. Your name or email address: Do you already have an account? No, create an account now. The origin of the word "cheesy" comes from the Urdu "chiz", meaning "thing". The negative association for an Indian "thing" is a leftover of the colonial attitude towards objects and customs of subjugated people.

A cheesy thing was thought to be big or showy. Of course, big and showy are not values of the western cultural elite. Modesty, intellectualism, the mind over the body are Protestant values.

Criticism of pop dance music often focuses on its immodesty: too big, too popular, too ostentatious, too pompous, too showy and too sexual. Pop dance music is created to inspire movement and provoke participation — but what is wrong with leaving both your head and heart on the dancefloor?

You might even ask why are women more interested in dancing. Perhaps because they are allowed to display their bodies as sexual spectacles while men are more encouraged to display their bodies as athletic spectacles. Bizarrely, this has brought an outburst that American Billboard should change its rules so she could not be the record holder.

Why should people object to her being the new record holder? Gender seems to be at the heart of the answer.