I used to hate Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” for years. I always thought it was a terrible song. Terrible lyrics, terrible vocals, and extremely cheesy production. And I never could figure out why so many people loved it, why it was used in Trainspotting, and why Duran Duran did a cover of it!

Well, if you’re someone like me, if you hear it enough times, you eventually come around to it. I know a ton of songs like that, where I actively disliked them at first then slowly started to appreciate them. [The fact that this song is used in the new Wim Wenders movie has nothing to do with this, actually…I’d come around to it a few years ago.]

I mean, take Bakar for instance.

I thought this song was terrible as well. To me he sounded like Seal with a head cold and a sore throat. But for some reason I kept on coming back to it, partly because it had been on Live 105’s heavy rotation for a few months and I couldn’t really escape it. I came to appreciate it. Still not the biggest fan, but I’ve finally heard a few more songs of his and he’s sort of…odd yet intriguing.

Sure, there are still a few extremely popular singers out there that make me twitch (looking at you, Tones & I and Lana Del Rey) but I’ve learned never to say never. Who knows, maybe they’ll have a song or two that works for me!