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Ranking Songs by How Awkward It Would Be if Your Parents Walked in While It Was Playing

What constitutes an “awkward song” can be subjective, but there are a handful of songs that none of us would want our parents to hear.

By Stephen Andrew Galiher

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There are a handful of universal embarrassments we all suffer. Waving to someone who we thought was someone else is pretty awful. Then there’s accidentally calling someone the wrong name when you were certain you had it right.

Another one is when your parents discover that you listen to some of the most vile, disgusting, wretched filth ever committed to recording. That’s not to say the music is actually bad. But the way you feel in that moment, the shadow of shame that begins to envelop you… Really makes it feel that way.

So in the spirit of excavating that profound embarrassment for the sake of emotional sadism… let’s rank some songs by how embarrassing it would be for you if your parents walked in while you were listening to it at 15 or at 40…

“F*** Tha Police” by N.W.A.

“What? This is a classic.”

Frankly, no one should be embarrassed by N.W.A.’s “F*** Tha Police”. Our parents know about this song.........

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