What is a song that you absolutely despised and now like?

Mine is Sympathy For The Devil Song by The Rolling Stones

I could not take the background singers and it would enrage me!

hoo hooo hoo hooo hoo hooo for 6 solid minutes!.

I studied the song and the story behind it and became at piece with it eventually.

I just heard it on a YouTube channel and realized I like it now.

cousinofjah ,
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Stay by Lisa Loeb

Resol ,
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When I was first introduced to Pink Floyd by my father, the song he played was ā€œShine On You Crazy Diamondā€.

Younger me had a bias against really long tracks, this went on for like 7 minutes, most of it was just instrumental with no lyrics until about minute 4.

But after a few years it really, and I mean REALLY grew on me, and I started to appreciate the hard rock genre a lot more for itā€™s slow but eventually anthemic build-up, and nowadays, it makes up a sixth of what I listen to nowadays.

I also didnā€™t like Bob Marley back in the day, but now I kinda vibe with that guyā€™s tunes.

TheCheddarCheese ,
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The disappearance of hatsune miku

I think the reason I hated it was because of the title, I found the song back when I first played Project Sekai and thought the creator hated Miku or something because of the name, so my child brain immediately got defensive.

Then I randomly looked up the lyrics and as it is with me and dark songs I started listening to it more and more and over time I just grew to like it

The same thing happened with Meltdown except indstead of hating it I just didnā€™t really care. Itā€™s one of my favorite Vocaloid songs now, and just in general

CharlesReed ,
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Mine's just a band in general; Motionless in White has been growing on me after I've been putting them off for so long. Their cover of "Somebody Told Me" is fun.

Teppichbrand ,

I apologise for talking bad about your personal taste in music. I really like cover versions and I kinda like this song, who doesnā€™t? So I went in expecting a lot but got disapointed big time. Itā€™s not original, it doesnā€™t add anything new, fun or unexpected. Itā€™s just a lame, generic, more polished copy. In my opinion, so whatever. :)

CharlesReed ,
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That's ok. Different people have different tastes! Tbh the band is kind of generic in general, but that hasn't stopped them from worming their way into my ears lol.

WatTyler ,
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Please Do Not Go by Violent Femmes.

Corno ,
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Paul McCartney - Wonderful Christmastime I used to hate it as a kid, now whenever I hear it I canā€™t help but smile because it brings back so many great memories!

Hugh_Jeggs ,

James Bond by Iggy Pop

It annoys the shit out of my wife so Iā€™d just let it play, then I started actually liking it

Incidentally, she did the same thing to herself with Chinese Manā€™s ā€œGet Upā€

Quazatron ,
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I used to despise a lot of stuff by David Bowie, David Byrne, Sting, Led Zeppelin. Then I grew up.

TheDoozer ,

I didnā€™t like Chandelier by Sia, was annoyed when it came on the radio all the time, didnā€™t really pay close attention to the lyrics.

And then a TV show I was watching, Selfie, with Karen Gillan and John Cho, and the whole plot of the show was this attractive, vain, party girl becoming someone that other people could take seriously, and at the end after taking aā€¦ well, without spoilers, a confidence hit, she sings a slowed down version of Chandelier, and I not only heard and understood the lyrics, but had spent a series watching and caring about someone who was the posterchild for the songā€¦ and it just immediately changed my outlook on the song. It was deep, and painful, and far more meaningful than a song about swinging from a chandelier.

Also that show was surprisingly good and didnā€™t get nearly the recognition it deserved.

stoy ,

Basically the entire eurodance genre, when I grew up in the 90s/00s I absolutely hated the genre, it was just mindless annoyance to me, I enjoyed classic rock, but tastes change, and now half of my phoneā€™s music library consists of eurodance, Aqua, Alcazar, Caramell, Dr. Bombay, Erasure, Fast Food Rockers, Gina G, Ian Van Dahl, Infernal, Las Ketchup, Los Del Rio, Me & My, Milk Inc, Mr President, Captain Jack, Nakaromi, O-Zone, Sunstroke Project, Paradisio, Rednex, Sash!, Solid Base, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Sqeezer, Steps, A Touch of Class, Toy-Box, Vengaboys and Whigfield are all artists I either found or would have found increadibly annoying back then, now all of these are on my phone

Quazatron ,
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You seem to be missing 2 Unlimited and Ace of Base.

CoggyMcFee ,

All That She Wants will always remind me fondly of being driven to high school by my older sister in 1993 with that song on repeat

cousinofjah ,
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And Real McCoy

TotallyNotSpez ,

ā€˜Faith of the heartā€™ from the Enterprise intro. Itā€™s a fairly controversial topic among Trekkies.

model_tar_gz ,

It gets stuck in my head. Wriggling around my brain and corrupting my thoughts. It eats. It devours. It consumes. Less and less of me remains, until there is no thought but to have faith that I can do anything, to get through the fire and the rain, that I can touch the sky and reach any star. My corruption is complete. Please turn it off.

ShittyBeatlesFCPres ,

Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals. I mostly listen to soul, R&B, and hip hop but have friends who are super into punk rock (or whatever subgenre of punk Sleigh Bells are). The song just sort of annoyed me when it came out but now it gets me fired up because my friends played it enough when we were getting rowdy.

stinerman ,
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Thereā€™s a decent amount of guilty pleasure pop music out there that I like now before I hated it. Tons of Katy Perry songs. Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. Stronger by Kelly Clarkson.

Of artists I normally like White Dress by Lana Del Rey went from ā€œI canā€™t listen to thisā€ to one of my favs of hers. Found a Job and Slippery People by Talking Heads are the same way.

OhmsLawn ,

The Cranberriesā€™ Zombie.

I just didnā€™t get it, probably hadnā€™t learned about The Troubles yet. It was also pretty inescapable for a time when I was a kid. I just found the chorus to be irksome.

It was actually an Elizabeth Zaharoff video that opened my eyes to it again. Sheā€™s done that for a few songs that I either didnā€™t like, or completely missed out on.

ccunning ,

I worked at a restaurant when this first came out that had a jukebox with a ā€œPlay most popularā€ button. The thing was plays that came from that button counted toward which song was ā€œmost popularā€ so I basically ended up listening to that song on a near constant loop every day of every shift. It was maddening.

Chozo ,
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I love Charismatic Voice! Her channel has introduced me to a lot of really awesome music that I'd never heard of before, and has gotten me to really study some other songs I've already known and discover new things to love about them. I've been watching her for a few years now, and it's been really fun watching her evolve into a true metalhead.

OhmsLawn ,

Iā€™ve literally teared up from songs I didnā€™t care about before after her analysis.

TheOctonaut ,

Itā€™s a really bloody weird experience as an Irish child of the 80s to be on a dancefloor in Kuala Lumpur and suddenly loads of Asians are moshing to a song about how your parentsā€™ generation are going to get everyone killed for pointless hatred. ā€œWhy are you crying? Donā€™t you like Halloween?ā€

eksb ,
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Solsbury Hill by Peter Gabriel. I have no idea why I used to hate it so viscerally. I have no idea why I now like it.

agamemnonymous ,
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Is the answer to both 7/4?

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