There's No Accounting For Taste

The recent release of Breaking Dawn: Part 1 has brought about in me the same conflicting emotions that come up every time a new Twilight movie comes out.  Excitement and Shame.

Excitement because despite the fact that the books and movies are melodramatic to the point of ridiculousness and targeted towards 12-year-old girls, I absolutely love them.

Shame because the books and movies are melodramatic to the point of ridiculousness and targeted towards 12-year-old girls and I am a grown woman who should be above such things. 

This conflict then inevitably brings about a third emotion: Righteous Indignation.

Because why do I have to be above it?  Why can't anyone who wants to enjoy some good 'ole fashion romance that happens to include sparkly vampires and supernatural abs be allowed to do so without ridicule?

That's why I make a point to admit to every single potentially embarrassing movie, TV show, song, book or other form of mass media that I enjoy.

Yeah, that's right, I own not one, but two Linkin Park albums.  

I have, on more than one occasion, wished that I could find Mortal Kombat on DVD.

What's that you say?  The Percy Jackson series is a blatant rip-off of Harry Potter.  Both of which are meant to be read by children?  Whatever. 

And when I say that I like these things, I am not saying that I like them ironically.  Because this is a concept that I don't understand.

To say that I love the song 'I Want To Know What Love Is' ironically would mean... what?  That I tell people I love it because I know that they know that I don't actually love it and am only saying that I do as a joke?  

What exactly is the point of that?  To cover up the fact I really do love Foreigner but am afraid people will judge me?

Or when a person says they love something ironically, does that mean that they do indeed enjoy it but only to the extend that they enjoy how bad it is?

Is it the same as saying you like 'The Room' because it's so bad it's good?  Because this is another concept that I don't fully comprehend.  

Saying that you love bad movies is really just saying that you love mocking things.  And who doesn't love that?

In my opinion, there are plenty of opportunities for mockery readily available on a daily basis.  I don't need to search them out.  I'd rather watch a movie I actually enjoy.  Even if it is Troop Beverly Hills.