Can You Force Yourself To Like A Record Through Blunt-Force Repetition?

There's a slightly different but related phenomenon, where there is something that you force yourself to *not* like because you think it's cheesy or too popular or dumb or whatever, but then after some period of time, usually after you've forgotten about it and then hear it again out of the blue after the passage of some time, maybe you stop fighting it and admit that you like it.

Forks, which ones have worked for you?

I think if I listen to anything long enough I will eventually love it or hate it (more often the latter). I don't really force myself to listen to stuff I don't like or am indifferent to, but this has happened a bunch with stuff friends or people I lived with listened to a lot.

Listening to Spotify with ads, still waiting on appreciating the vocal-fried "So you're listening to Spotify..." female announcer after a few hundred listens.

But that's just it: if you're going to derive any entertainment value out of an ad, it's almost certainly the first time you hear it. With movies or tv shows, the first viewing is almost always going to be most impactful.

But music works differently on the brain. There are definitely records where I know on first listen that I'm going to love it, but those are the exception. The peak is more like 50 listens, and usually the appreciation steadily deepens over that time. Granted, these have to be paced out, or I can easily burn out on it. So if this blunt force idea is possible, I think there's a window for it, and if it doesn't happen within that window, the record would just grow more and more annoying.

If you scrap from existence everything I've ever liked, given enough time I am sure I can reconstruct a new taste. And so on and I am not sure if there is a parallel universe where the general quality of music is too low that I'd rather be horse-riding.