10 Totally Cheesy Songs (That Are Still Awesome)

9. Phil Collins - Sussudio

Do you like Phil Collins?

Of course you don't. Phil Collins is possibly the most unfashionable musical artist of all time - a bank manager-looking, eternally middle-aged man who, looking at his face, never stood a chance of being cool or fronting a youth movement. But cinema has this weird way of subverting and elevating really sh*tty songs by marrying them to a new context it can now only belong to, much like American Psycho stigmatised 'Sussudio' as a song to which soulless yuppies f*ck and murder.

It's so clinical that it reflects Patrick Bateman's lack of a soul - everything is calibrated too perfectly to sell itself that it develops a hyper-ironic quality. It is a hyper-energetic pop song, a cynical market research test of what that cocaine must feel like. It's all bubbling, relentlessly zany synths and nonsense lyrics, as deranged and eerie a version of a Prince song as Bateman is a deranged, eerie version of a human being. It nonetheless is totally the sort of song you find yourself clicking along to, with eyes clenched in a zone of utterly chipper meaninglessness.

Don't just dismiss it. Eat it.

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