Pitch Perfect: Who's Rihanna? Or, "How I'm going to give Miley Cyrus a chance."

First, is it okay that I really like the movie Pitch Perfect? I'm uncertain as to what the nonsensical male gender stereotypes allow these days.

So yeah, I'm watching Pitch Perfect and I'm like:

"Wow the covers of these songs are really good."

"I wonder who sings this?"

"Why have I never heard these songs or people?"

Like any good child of the information age, I took to Google to figure out the original singers of some of these songs. Here's what I found out about some of the songs:

1. "Don't Stop The Music" - Rihanna 2007.
2. "Party In The USA" - Miley Cyrus 2009.
3. "Titanium" - David Guetta ft. Sia 2011.
4. "Since U Been Gone" - Kelly Clarkson 2004.
5. "Keep Your Head Up" - Andy Grammer 2011.

As I saw the results, I looked-up from my computer and I'm like, "Oh my gosh, is this okay?" Basically, I'm feeling shame that I just watched a movie where I enjoyed the cover of a song originally performed by Miley Cyrus. At the same time I'm thinking, "Isn't Rihanna the girl who got the crap beat out of her by Chris Brown (I still don't know who Chris Brown is or why he's famous.)" 

Other than what I read on TMZ (Yes. I'm a self-proclaimed celebrity gossip whore. It's better than fiction), I don't know anything concerning the music of Miley Cyrus, Rihanna, or Kelly Clarkson -- only that I feel like I'm not supposed to like them. In fact, I'm pretty sure if the song was written and performed within the last decade I'll probably dismiss the song entirely as too trendy, or just simply label it as "garbage."

I'm also hopelessly stuck in the 80s. If it came down to a knife fight between 80s Madonna and millenium Madonna, 80s Madonna is going to be convicted for first-degree murder.

My actual knowledge of pop music actually drops off after 1997. Anyt songs I know after that year is incidental from movie watching and visiting friends who are much cooler than me (That's pretty much all of them.)

I'm starting to see, more and more, that I'm an unqualified elitist. What's there to get snobbish about when it comes to pop music? After all, it's intentionally two-dimensional and superficial -- that's what makes it so much fun. 99 percent of pop music wasn't made to change the musical world, it was made to get your toe tapping and your rump shaking.

So, yes, I'm going to give Miley Cyrus a chance. But not Maroon 5. No. Never again. They're terrible.