Examples of artists who built their careers on music that they didn't really like.

MGMT have repeatedly trashed their first album

Cause she was a JAZZ singer, baby

Someone introduced Elvis to Ernest Tubb and Tubb, the most gracious and courteous of entertainers, listened patiently as the nineteen-year-old poured out his love for Tubb's music and told him it was his real ambition to sing country music. "He said, `They tell me if I'm going to make any money, though, I've got to sing (this other kind of music). What should I do?' I said, `Elvis, you ever have any money?' He said, `No, sir.' I said, `Well, you just go ahead and do what they tell you to do. Make your money. Then you can do what you want to do.'"

MGMT have repeatedly trashed their first album

― Treeship

i think that's a different thing. p. sure peter stampfel has repeatedly trashed every record he's ever made, but that doesn't mean he's spent his life choosing to make music he doesn't really like.

Jerry Garcia.