no I get you, I’ve been there myself. And taste will dictate in general one’s choices, particularly to music genres. I guess my needs always change, and a song I may not like (or thought I didn’t like) today, I may love tomorrow, because that is what I’ll need in that moment. I’m open to that and trust my gut, rather than being closed, or closed minded and creating conflict in myself, I find it better to go with how I feel. Because today is not tomorrow, and I’m open to the possibility that not only will it be different, but I will too.
It has nothing to do with the artist being infallible or not. It’s more about if you want to
pass judgment and choose one over the other for reasons that you or a group mind has invented. I prefer to follow my intuition, my changing mood and needs. Let’s take an extreme example, and compare Notre Dame to Hand in Glove, well, one can either say that
one is bad and the other is good, or one can say, they are neither bad or good, but both are actually really good, because both are really different, and because of their unique differences, have something to offer to the one listening to it, if that listener is open to it.
And I know which one I’ll most likely gravitate to more often because of personal reasons (and some of these reasons may be a kind of conditioning) but I try to remain open to each song’s possibilities and listen to what I need in that moment.
But of course it’s easier, to pass judgment, as many do, and reinforce one’s judgment by continually criticizing a song, rather than being open to the possibility of one’s changing needs and open to what the song itself wants to share with you.