I like a lot of music genres that get a lot of hate: Opera. Disco. K-pop.
The train. What it has for power, and if it’s a freight, then hoping it’s a manifest ( mixed freight ). I like the variety of the cars, and it’s makes me wonder where all this stuff originated, and where it’s going.
Nix on the graffitti.
Me, I follow a graffiti subreddit.
The Harris Teeter I was at supposedly carries chicken liver, since there was a space for it, but apparently someone had stocked that space with chicken gizzards instead. I may try the Wegman’s that recently opened near me, since they carry a pretty diverse selection.
I love opera! I’m not an expert at all, but I really like it. My gateway drug was watching an old Lily Pons movie when I was maybe 6 or 7 yo where she sang “The Bell Song” from Lakme. I was enchanted. The music is glorious and what those people can do with just their voices! Thrilling.
When we lived in NYC we had season subscriptions to the Met. I really miss that.
Billions of people love opera, k-pop, and disco. The loudmouths who fancy they are cool and worship dead punk rockers and so on may howl like dogs at the moon. I will turn up my music and drown their sorry asses out. Believe me, ‘everyone else seems to hate’ is an illusion. For example: As a girl and then a woman, it was common for chest beaters to mock and disparage anything women liked (because somehow it made them feel like they had a bigger penis). Barry Manilow. Andrew Lloyd Weber and Rossini. Cute Korean boys…all immensely successful… The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.
I’m gonna remember this one.
An Arab proverb, I believe. (another one, ‘Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel’.) 
Amen to that - thank Og the kid is grown, out of the house, and no longer showing dogs, I don’t have to smell liver treats baking!
I don’t know from opera, but once I was listening to a (probably PBS) radio program that played a variety of genres. They played a wax record of some (I believe) Swedish singer from way back and it was pretty captivating, and a little twingy that it was probably never heard again.
Jenny Lind? She was hugely popular and called the Swedish Nightengale. She was so popular there was a type of bed that was named after her – still available and called that today!
I’m feeling it was somebody obscurish. But I did enjoy it. Thinking back on it, my face was probably like the expression on the Shawshank prisoners when Andy played the record.
That was the same Jenny Lind who toured with P.T. Barnum.
I just thought of a good one:
Elton John’s 1979 album Victom of Love is generally considered one of the worst of his long career. Many people put it at the very bottom. EJ must not like it that much either: He’s never performed any of the songs from it live.
Well, I like it.
In referencing the 2009 Will Ferrell re-make of Land of the Lost in another thread recently, I discovered it was a box-office bomb and critically panned. I’m not sure everyone else hated it, but it sure seems like pretty much everyone else disliked it.
I liked it. I thought it had some bits that didn’t quite work, and I’m not sure it ever actually made me laugh out loud, but I got a lot of smiles out of it.
Eddie Murphy’s film A Thousand Words has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but I actually enjoyed it.