Things you liked... Until you found out what they really are

[SturmDolch]

So recently, there's been a song playing on the radio non-stop. It's called "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros. I liked it. Here it is:


It's good, old-fashioned fun. I thought it was a cover song or something. I thought it's cool that a song that sounds like it's from the 70s can pop up and get popular.

That is, until I saw the band itself on Conan.

I can't find the clip on YouTube, but here they are on Letterman. It's not as sick as what was on Conan, but:


THEY'RE HIPSTERS! Dirty hipsters. I was tricked. Tricked into liking a song made by the biggest gathering of hipsters I've seen. It seems like each band member was made in a secret lab to conform to every single stereotype of obnoxious arty hipster in existence.

There's gypsy scarf-man on the guitar.
There's ironic beard bassman.
There's ironic bow-tie trumpetman.
There are three other people wearing "vintage" clothes.

And then there's the lead singer, who looks like he reached into an electrical outlet running high voltages of bad fashion...


Just a note, I still think it's a good song. It's just tarnished a bit in my mind.

So what things did you like until you found out something about them that ruined it for you?

I'll add liverwurst to that list. It's actually liver... Gah.

 

[BlindTom]

I thought that duck patte was smashed duck but apparently it is just the liver. I was physically sick at this news.

 

[Choppaduel]

I'd rather the country be full of hipsters, than whats there now. (USA is the country)

also kosher and halal. It was described to me that it was just blessed by a holy man. However, I've learned that the animals are bled to death, which is much less efficient and more cruel than a bolt to the brain.

 

[Palademon]

I found a good music video set to pictures of Beyond Birthday, a murderer from a DEath Note prequel novel.

Later I found out it's a Jonas Brothers song...

 

[Kevlar Eater]

I used to actually like the band Cattle Decapitation, until I read their biography and saw that they were vegans and were part of PETA. I hate both of those things, so I stopped listening to their music.

 

[Nimcha]

I've never had this. If I like something, I like it. No matter who made it.

For example, I think Bono is the worst human being alive, yet I like a small selection of U2 songs.

I know this makes me sound like a pretentious twat, but it's the truth.

 

[DuplicateValue]

*snip*

I used to actually like the band Cattle Decapitation, until I read their biography and saw that they were vegans and were part of PETA. I hate both of those things, so I stopped listening to their music.

This makes no sense to me.

If you think a band are good, and you like their music, it doesn't matter what the people themselves are like. It's about the music, not what the people playing it look like.

You're going to miss out on a lot of really amazing stuff if you keep up that attitude.

 

[Arsen]

I still like him, but I cannot buy any David Bowie albums given the fact that he gave a $10,000 check to the Jena Six kids. He chose the wrong side to suuport in my opinion. Given the fact that he's married to a Somalian model it's no wonder.

Love the man, dislike his political stance.

Also, Stephen King is one of my favorite writers, but I can't stand his ultra left quotes and stances he takes in many of his books. Most notably the final Dark Tower novel.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Well not that I have ever eaten it(yet I do want to give it a go) I was a bit surprised to find out that marmite is bone marrow.

 

[BlindTom]

I'd rather the country be full of hipsters, than whats there now. (USA is the country)

also kosher and halal. It was described to me that it was just blessed by a holy man. However, I've learned that the animals are bled to death, which is much less efficient and more cruel than a bolt to the brain.

That's.... Not entirely correct...

 

[supermariner]

I used to like McDonalds until i found out they funded the IRA
...i later discovered IRA is an american pension plan thing and the whole thing was a hilarious misunderstanding

still havent eaten there though

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

So tempted to say women, but I love them anyway

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

It has come to the point where fucking everything is hipster. I'm hipster. You're hipster. Everyone is bloody hipster.
Really, I wonder if those dudes even identify as hipster, and how they would react to being called such. They might just dress like that because it's cool right now.

Anyway, on topic, I couldn't listen to Red anymore after finding out they were christian rock.
No problem with it, I suppose singing about Jesus is better than yet another fucking love song. But still. Toss "christian" onto anything and it begins to feel like someone is trying to fucking convert you.

 

[hurfdurp]

Hot dogs. I never really liked them to begin with, but I haven't touched one in over a decade. Now I just eat veggie dogs which taste just as disgusting but with more vitamins, so score.

 

[jaketaz]

I've never had this. If I like something, I like it. No matter who made it.

For example, I think Bono is the worst human being alive, yet I like a small selection of U2 songs.

I know this makes me sound like a pretentious twat, but it's the truth.

See I really like some of their music, and despite Bono's retardedness he's actually getting some good shit done. But my biggest gripe with U2 is how the older they just seem to keep cranking out this really generic lame dad-rock. Like, rock that your dad can listen to and go "yeah I'm into rock now". No you're not, dad. Their best albums are Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree, and "Vertigo" is completely retarded and so is everything since then. I was massively disappointed by "No Line on the Horizon" after I saw the crazy high reviews it was getting. It just sounds tired and boring to me, especially considering how hungry and exciting they sounded on the two albums I mentioned.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

i thought scientology was cool until i found out what it really was....>_>

 

[Missileman540]

I agree with monkfish, I liked the band RED until it was made very clear that they were a Christian rock band...

So songs where I thought the subject was longing for the affection and acceptance of a woman now just seems like longing for acceptance from a deity.

Just doesn't carry the same weight or relevance to me anymore.

 

[AndrewC]

The internet.

 

[Vohn_exel]

I don't think Garth Brooks should've ran around on his wife. But, I like his music, so I listen. I think Tom Cruise is the craziest man alive and probably either beats his wife or makes her his slave. But, I still love his movies (well, some of them) so I still watch them.

I liked Scott Pilgrim, and I have an Ipod, which apparently makes me a Hipster. I watch anime, and I love Star Wars, which makes me a nerd. I find Japanese culture and history interesting, which makes me a Japanaphile (I was called worse), and yet I still read into it. I like Greek Mythology, which apparently makes me something that doesn't have a name, but you get my point. I've never let anything get in the way of something I enjoy, which is probably a strange stance for a Christian to have. Infact, although I can't think of any now, I know that really my faith is the only thing that has ever got between me and something I enjoy, and I can currently think of only one example.

TL;DR:
If you like something, enjoy it. Life is too short to let some sort of silly reason stop you. If you worry about what society finds ok all your life, you'll never be happy. EVER.

(edit: But I will say that if you watch that Letterman vid with the sound off they're so CREEPY!)

 

[Nimcha]

I've never had this. If I like something, I like it. No matter who made it.

For example, I think Bono is the worst human being alive, yet I like a small selection of U2 songs.

I know this makes me sound like a pretentious twat, but it's the truth.

See I really like some of their music, and despite Bono's retardedness he's actually getting some good shit done. But my biggest gripe with U2 is how the older they just seem to keep cranking out this really generic lame dad-rock. Like, rock that your dad can listen to and go "yeah I'm into rock now". No you're not, dad. Their best albums are Achtung Baby and Joshua Tree, and "Vertigo" is completely retarded and so is everything since then. I was massively disappointed by "No Line on the Horizon" after I saw the crazy high reviews it was getting. It just sounds tired and boring to me, especially considering how hungry and exciting they sounded on the two albums I mentioned.

Wow, ok. I really have no idea what you're talking about, sorry. I just like a few songs, that's all I know. xD