What are some songs that you started listening to ironically, but grew to genuinely enjoy?
What are some songs that you started listening to ironically, but grew to genuinely enjoy?
I like The Man Behind The Slaughter by The Living Tombstone. I don't tend to enjoy fan-made music, but this one was too groovy to pass up.
Rasputin by Boney M
That shit slaps
Edit: Seagulls! Stop It Now by Bad Lip Reading
The original Rasputin, but also the nightcore remix on NightcoreLounge
I'm not exactly sure why, but I thought Abba was the artist
What does the fox say?
(Uhee ahee ahee)
@LurkyLoo that was a gateway to Someone Like Me.
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Not necessarily a song but a whole sub-genre: Eurobeat. It started with Running in the 90s and I just went from there to listening and thoroughly enjoying pretty much the whole Initial D soundtrack.
I watched Initial D first, then started listened to Running in the 90s, and now I can't escape eurobeat
I'm ashamed to say I've never watched Initial D. But it's on my watchlist.
I want to say Clown Core but the insane talent is obvious almost immediately. you might click on it ironically but you'll never listen that way twice.
I guess Baby Metal fits the bill better.
I'm listening to "Hell" and I must admit I am not only impressed but also deeply afraid. I will never listen to this again. Thanks for sharing!
Never say never
My roommate showed me and said the same thing. Then I showed my boss and he started listening to it unironically.
I do still go and listen to some of them sometimes, myself.
This sounds like the soundtrack to an action-cyberpunk reinterpretation of Ed Edd n Eddy that still maintains the slapstick element
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BxMxC by baby metal. That shit goes hard.
When I first saw Gimme Chocolate as a share on Facebook, I thought BabyMetal were a one hit wonder meme band. Cool and fun but not a "real" band, I didn't think anymore about it.
A few years later I heard they were releasing a second album and I was like "these guys are actually serious?!". I checked out more of their stuff and got hooked.
At that time in my life I had been listening to metal for well over a decade and was wondering if I was actually getting bored of it. BabyMetal were a huge breath of fresh air to the scene.
I got really stuck on Kingslayer
I will still champion “That’s Not My Name” by Ting Tings. It’s a well-crafted pop song that most people miss the “subtlety” (for lack of a better word) of the message. It’s about a woman wanting to be social, but hating all of the poor flirtation in the pick-up scene.
And I never knew it until I had it on an exercise mix and was able to hyper focus on it while trying to zone out in my cadence run. It usually just glossed by as a chippy beat.
"True Survivor" by David Hasselhoff from Kung Fury.
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Jinjer - Pisces
Although it's not a comedic song in itself, when the chorus kicks in, the cognitive dissonance of that mismatching voice is funny. But then after 5 listens you are just impressed because it sounds good. And that made me unironically listen to it more and I put it in my playlist, recognizing the depth of the lyrics and that unique feeling of the song.
That's btw 1 of 2 songs from jinjer that are considered outliers and those are the only two that I like by jinjer which is very weird.
It's not quite what you're asking, but I have had my perspective on a lot of songs changed once I actually looked up their lyrics.
My listening comprehension for music lyrics is piss poor. For any given pop or rock song I'd hear on the radio, maybe 70% of the time I find lyrics unintelligible. Clearly it's skill issue on my part, as the body of music listeners at large seem to have no problems understanding what they're hearing. I don't know how people do it.
Sometimes I'll catch enough words to throw into a search engine and get the song's title and lyrics, and maybe even a short blurb of context. That knowledge alone can make a song go from irritating noise to something I find rather pleasant.
I believe the most recent song I looked up and learned something about was Even Flow by Pearl Jam. It's a song about homelessness. Who knew? Fucking everyone, probably! But not me. For fifteen years all I heard was "FREEEEE-ZIIIIIN'..." and the rest just goes to mush. I also learned Even Flow is a completely different song from Plush by Stone Temple Pilots. The damn radio kept bamboozling me with that similar vocal progression they both have!
Ah well. Better on the bus fifteen years late than never on the bus at all. They say ignorance is bliss, but it's also the source of a lot of undue hatred. I find I hate far fewer songs when I actually understand what they're trying to say (if anything).
Of course, knowing doesn't magically fix all stinkers. I Love It by Icona Pop didn't get any better in my eyes when I found the lyrics for it. I find most pop country songs (which I am unavoidably subject to, living in the American midwest) don't have much novel or interesting to say, either. The closer I look, the more accurate Bo Burnham's Pandering becomes, and I hate it.
I guess the silver lining here is I get to lucky 10,000 my way through many of history's greatest hits. I'm sure many people would give a lot to experience something they like again for the first time. By virtue of my being absurdly late to the party, I get to do it every day.
I'm the same way, most song lyricsare incomprehensible gibberish. So you'll probably recognize this catchy line: "wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night"
Return of the Mac by Mark Morrison
Started listening to Buddy Holly by Weezer ironically for the meme edits some months ago, now Weezer is my favourite band.
The theme song from Enterprise (“Where my heart will take me” by Russel Watson). So many Trekkies seem to hate this song but I genuinely love it. I normally skip through the intro songs to most Trek shows but this one I sit through every time (and I have the song in a number of my playlists).
Also Blood and Glitter by Lord of the Lost. Every year I listen to a playlist of Eurovision songs for fun. LOTL have stuck with me (and I’m going to see them live soon!!)
I love the original intro to Enterprise. Is that the one you meant? They changed it to be more "upbeat" or something at some point and I didn't like that version.
This might be a cop-out, but when I first heard We've Got The Moves, I went into it listening ironically. Was converted before the end of the song, though.
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Shawty's Halation by Dayman is such a banger
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I have none that I listened to ironically, I think that's a next generation thing.. but I have plenty that were unavoidably on the radio that I can listen to now with warm nostalgia at the distinct lack of twerking, large asses, and shallow(er) lyrics.
Probably Agenda Suicide by The Faint, because the music belies the dark hopelessness of people working office jobs hoping to achieve the American dream
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"Listening to a song ironically"? Who is doing that? And why?
People who like to poke fun at things. To make fun of: the music video, the music, the lyrics, how overplayed it is, the fans, the band, etc. Especially when a song bubbles up in the zeitgeist either from lots of radio play or by featuring in some clade of meme.
I remember playing it as a joke to my friends as this "weird video with young Kim Jong Un". Ended up being one of my most favorite songs ever
That's a certified bop. I'm saving it to my playlists now.
Do you remember how you found the song? And do you have any clue what it means?
Do you remember how you found the song?
I do actually :) I saw it featured in a video, something like "metal band reacts to modern music" and I think the metal band was Gloryhammer
Edit: Found it, it wasn't Gloryhammer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_U7ejfOuV0&t=366s
And do you have any clue what it means?
That I don't know for sure, the beginning sounds like it's about falling in love but what the refrain means I have no idea
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Christmas Pain in Christmas Town by Chowder Man.
If you haven’t played Hypnospace Outlaw yet, I highly recommend it.
Hubba Hubba Zoot Zoot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2qsC-PuJQ
It's a nonsense song and when I first came across it, I took it for the joke it was. But I realized I genuinely enjoy listening to it. It's relaxing.
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I wanna be a cowboy, baby by CMAT. "Always the cowboy, never the cow"
This song from Space Dandy. I just call it "Japanese Earth Wind & Fire".
At first, I was listening to it somewhat ironically. But when I first heard it I already knew it's a banger.
Kept as an example of unenjoyable music, came to enjoy it.
This sounds like early puscifer. Like Vagina Mine vibes.
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It started as a joke video and now its part of my workout playlist.
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I dunno, I don't really listen to things I don't enjoy genuinely, unless I'm being polite in someone else's domain
However! There is one specific song that I initially liked because it was so over the top, absurdly silly, but came to enjoy because I like the beat. Muck Sticky, thingy thing
Absolutely absurd song, but the track thumps hard in the car, and I've never lost my love for feeling my organs liquify from bass lol.
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Power Francers - Pompo nelle Casse
It's a very stupid song with lyrics that make no sense and are kinda hedonistic, and I hated it when it came out in 2010 because I felt that it somehow "promoted" that lifestyle, but it eventually grew on me and it brings me back to simpler times, now I get the irony of that song.
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When I first heard Money Machine by 100 gecs I thought that the intro was funny, but the song was ultimately unlistenable. I'm now a die-hard hyperpop fan.
FCK 2020, Scooter
Nothing better than this song to get you motivated