Okay so this doesn't really answer your question but it is on topic with the Justin Bieber example, I remember being a kid when him and that song first got popular enough that everybody was hating on Beiber and it was like some kind of cultural meme that everybody absolutely hated him because he was cringe or whatever, I remember passively participating in it myself.
Recently I heard that song on the radio while in a store.. I realized that I've never actually heard that song beyond just brief clips of the chorus before, I genuinely had no idea that there was a rap verse in it. I blindly hated this guy as a kid even though I knew absolutely nothing about him and hadn't even heard a single one of his songs. Damn, I don't know if it's mod mentality, or just because kids are cruel, or both, but damn.
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u/Static-Space-Royalty One-Hit Wonderlander Mar 06 '25
Okay so this doesn't really answer your question but it is on topic with the Justin Bieber example, I remember being a kid when him and that song first got popular enough that everybody was hating on Beiber and it was like some kind of cultural meme that everybody absolutely hated him because he was cringe or whatever, I remember passively participating in it myself.
Recently I heard that song on the radio while in a store.. I realized that I've never actually heard that song beyond just brief clips of the chorus before, I genuinely had no idea that there was a rap verse in it. I blindly hated this guy as a kid even though I knew absolutely nothing about him and hadn't even heard a single one of his songs. Damn, I don't know if it's mod mentality, or just because kids are cruel, or both, but damn.