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I’ve really been getting back into cheesy music in the past few months. I don’t know why recycled lyrics and formulaic instrumentations attract me so much. I can’t get these songs out of my head, yet I don’t want them out either. They’re so cheesy, they’re good. Mmm.

5. Jesse McCartney, Beautiful Soul. I don’t think there’s a single real instrument in this song. Jesse doesn’t really have a strong voice, but this song doesn’t have any difficult passages, so he sounds pretty decent. The bridge is probably the most boring part of the whole song, but otherwise, it’s fun and catchy and that’s all that matters!

4. Hilary Duff, Someone’s Watching Over Me. Hilary’s character “wrote” this song in her movie, Raise Your Voice. She performs it at the end with her boyfriend. It’s about following your heart, being true to yourself and never giving up. She has the whole fake-sounding voice in it that is totally awesome and makes me want to listen to it over and over.

3. Backstreet Boys, Incomplete. Their new single sounds exactly like Shape Of My Heart and I Want It That Way. This song drips with nostalgia, playing to the fans who miss the old days when they were the reigning boy band. It’s not quite as catchy as I Want It That Way, but it’s good enough to win me back over.

2. Diana DeGarmo, I Believe. This is probably the cheesiest song I’ve ever heard in my life and I’m not exaggerating. Written by Tamyra Gray, there isn’t one line that hasn’t been in fifty other pop songs before it. It talks about pots of gold, dreaming dreams, moments arriving, reaching into your heart and believing in the impossible. The great thing about it is that she sings it as if she really, really means it. You feel like she’s overcoming that obstacle and striving to be the very best right at the moment she sings those words. Then there’s tons of glory notes too, which is totally awesome too.

1. Kelly Clarkson, Since U Been Gone. This is quite possibly my favourite song ever. It’s so catchy and so fun that it’s been stuck in my head for the past six months and I don’t want to get it out. I don’t get how Max Martin can produce so many songs that get stuck in your head forever. Every “yeah yeah” just keeps in there a little bit longer. I even decided to put my Garageband skills to the test to create my own version of this awesome song, entirely with computer-generated instruments. It’s not nearly as good as the original, but I swear Garageband was totally telling me to make it.