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.
Ghost. I always wanted to like them, but could not get into their sound. When they won their Grammy in 2015(?) I called a buddy who was huge into them and asked him to curate a playlist for me. I could not do it.
Then in 2018 I saw them open for Iron Maiden, something about seeing them in person. Papa and the Ghouls had this energy about them. Now they are one of my top listened to bands.
I really miss all the metal shows I went to back in the early 90s so many bands every weekend.
Obnoxious late 90s-early 2000s over the top stuff like Limp Bizkit. I don’t know what happened. I always hated it until last year and then it just clicked. Please stay back.
I wasn’t a fan of ’80s pop music when it came out. But now there’s a layer of nostalgia, and the weirdness of that music is now fascinating to me. So I might not actually like it still, but now I appreciate it.
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
