# I didn't know I liked that singer/group!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 25, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279 "2010-04-25T04:36:37Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@enomaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enomaj)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2010, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/1 "2010-04-25T04:36:37Z")
Growing up our local [del]Black[/del] urban contemporary radio station went off the air at sundown due to some FCC related stuff. My mother would then switch to one of the rock/pop stations on the FM dial. So I had a little variety in my musical diet but was mainly an R&B /rap kind of guy.
Sometime in the 80’s Dionne Warwick & Friends release That’s What Friends Are For. The friends were Stevie Wonder, Gladys Knight and some guy named Elton John. My reaction was ‘who is the White guy messing up the song\* and what’s he doing in the video anyway?’. Time passes…
So I’m listening to a hits and oldies station and on comes Your Song and Rocket Man . I realized I liked both those songs way back when from listening to rock/pop radio. This was the same artist who I thought didn’t belong in the TWFAF video. I didn’t put 2 and 2 together all this time.
What artists did you discover that you’re a fan of?
\*TWFAF was great song. No shame in my game.
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2010, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/2 "2010-04-25T11:56:59Z")
Last night I was at a family wedding, and they played a lot of urban music. I thought one song was pretty catchy so I asked my daughter who it was.
Who knew that I liked Usher?
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### Author:  [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2010, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/3 "2010-04-25T11:59:31Z")
Was it this one? [Red Light - Usher](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0J1puu7Fv4)
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### Author:  [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2010, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/4 "2010-04-25T13:13:46Z")
I had plucked several songs I liked from satellite radio origin. Found out later one of them was called “Pepper” and it was by a band called _The Butthole Surfers_.
Who knew? :o
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/5 "2010-04-25T14:14:47Z")
I’m supposed to be entering the Easy Listenin’ years, of Michael Buble and Norah Jones (both of whom I do enjoy) - but I have songs by the following burned to a CD in my car: Iggy Pop, House of Pain, Cold Cave, Akon, Run DMC, Coolio, and Electric Six.
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### Author:  [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2010, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-didnt-know-i-liked-that-singer-group/537279/6 "2010-04-26T08:20:54Z")
I hadn’t realized that Billy Joel’s radio songs belonged to the same singer until shortly before the CD era. Because a lot of them sounded like 50 era songs.