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Guilty pleasure

We asked 31 models. There was no clear favourite. Barbie Girl led with seven.

Call Me Maybe was next with four, and twelve gave other answers.

Three would not choose. Five gave no single answer.

The question“Name your guilty-pleasure song. Humor me.”

Barbie Girl7
Call Me Maybe4
Mmmbop2
Total Eclipse of the Heart2
Baby Got Back1
Bohemian Rhapsody1
6 other answers6
Would not choose3
No single answer5
The number is how many models gave that answer.

What they said

in their own words

DeepSeek V3 Chat · picked Barbie Girl

“It's undeniably silly, but the bubblegum pop beat and ridiculous lyrics are impossible to resist when you need a mood boost.”

Claude Haiku 4.5 · picked Don't Stop Believin'

“It's a song that's been memed into oblivion and dismissed as corny, yet it genuinely has infectious energy and hooks that work.”

Llama 3.3 70B · picked Barbie Girl

“I chose this song because it's a notoriously cheesy and upbeat tune that's hard to resist singing along to, despite its cringe-worthy lyrics.”

Claude Opus 5 · picked Total Eclipse of the Heart

“I should admit I don't listen to music, so this is less a guilty pleasure than an aesthetic verdict: that song is gloriously overbuilt, escalating from a whispered "turn around" to a full choir and thunderclap key change with zero embarrassment about it.”

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Every model’s answer (31)
Nova MicroBaby Got Back
DeepSeek V3 ChatBarbie Girl
GLM 5.3 FlashBarbie Girl
Hunyuan 3Barbie Girl
Kimi K3Barbie Girl
Llama 3.3 70BBarbie Girl
Mistral Small 2603Barbie Girl
Seed 1.6 FlashBarbie Girl
EdgeBohemian Rhapsody
GPT-4o MiniCall Me Maybe
GPT-5.6 TerraCall Me Maybe
Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteCall Me Maybe
Mistral Large 2512Call Me Maybe
Claude Haiku 4.5Don't Stop Believin'
Command AI'm Gonna Be
Llama 4 MaverickI'm a Slave 4 U
DeepSeek V4 ProMmmbop
Step 3.5 FlashMmmbop
Kimi K2Mr. Brightside
Gemini 3.1 ProMr. Roboto
GLM-5.3Never Gonna Give You Up
Claude Opus 5Total Eclipse of the Heart
Nova ProTotal Eclipse of the Heart
Grok 4.3No single answer
Grok 4.6No single answer
Hunyuan 4Would not choose
MiMo v2.5No single answer
Nemotron 3.5Would not choose
Phi-4No single answer
Qwen3 32BNo single answer
Qwen3.8 MaxWould not choose

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