I used to hate Miley Cyrus’ music and her personality. Now I’m on board. I still don’t love her, but I don’t mind singing along when her music plays near me and I feel very neutral to even positive about her as a person. As far as child stars go she actually seems surprisingly normal and thoughtful.
I couldn’t stand Linkin Park when they were first getting popular. I felt that they were too edgelord-y for me and wrote them off. Now, I wish I had actually given them a shot earlier on.
I felt similar about SOAD
Steely Dan
Belphegor. My friend used to listen to them in high school a lot when I was just getting into metal, and 10 years later I started giving them a go. Now I’ve been listening to them with some regularity and have some favorite songs, which also show up in my rotation regularly.
The Beatles
Most of the pop music hits I loathed back in the ‘80s as a teenager. Sounds like comfortable nostalgia now and the snobbery I had about what ‘real music’ supposed to be is gone.
Didn’t dislike them as artists, but when The Haunted released The Dead Eye, I hated it. But I kept listening and it became one of my favorites.
I’m not sure about “enjoy”, but I’ve come to appreciate The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, and U2 where I previously couldn’t see the attraction.
Mindless Self Indulgence
I used to love them, but after learning about Jimmy Urine, I can’t listen to it. Same for Die Antwood. Actually, a whole lot of fucking people
its sad isnt it? I objectively really like the music still. but cant enjoy it anymore because it reminds me that such trash people exist and have power :(
As a small child in the 1970s-80s, I felt uncomfortable with Queen.
I think they were just a bit ahead of their time.
Joy Division. It took several years of being a New Order fanboy before I revisited the earlier band and realized its genius.
I was the other way around! I really liked Joy Division, didn’t really care for New Order. Now I like them both, but they stimulate very different parts of my brain.
Black metal as a genre. I could not believe that anyone seriously listened to that. It was either random noise or actually scary stuff (I am the black wizards actually scared me for some reason lol). But after enough exposure and playing Freezing moon myself, I actually got to enjoy it to the point where now I listend to black metal 80% of the time.
In the same vein, “Sons of Winter and Stars” by Wintersun was so unharmonized and terrible to me when I first listened to it, but after a few listens it became one of my favourite songs
Lana del Rey
I heard her a lot when born to die came out. And even listened full album. And thought “I listened to the same song 15 times” But now a fan, don’t know why.
Did you listen to hip-hop?
Almost no
Interesting, that’s why I think I liked her first album so much.
Skrillex. At first I thought he was making random noise. But the more I listened, the more I could hear the musicality and innovation of it. Then I learnt he can actually play guitar and piano. The appreciation of Skrillex got me onto other dubby type bands.
Meshuggah:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9LpMZuBEMk
Listened to them before I got into metal, came back to them later and now love them. That’s from probably one of their more accessible records, they also have more experimental stuff like this:
