When you feel like you're the only one who likes something

**sunaynaprasad** · 08-07-2012, 05:59 PM

How many of you have ever loved something everyone else hated, so you felt like you were the only one who liked it. I felt that was with the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake (almost everyone else liked the old one better), and with the cartoon from 2004, Teacher's Pet. When I first saw that cartoon at the age of ten. I fell in love with it big time. But when I went to go see it again, it was just about out of theaters. The last showing was almost done, and I didn't want to see any other movies. That summer it came on DVD, I was addicted to it as if it have visual and auditory nicotine. I couldn't get enough and had to watch it every day. But when I read reviews, most people hated it. They described it as crappy and awful, someone even mentioned that their 4-year-old sone couldn't sit through it. So I thought to myself, "I guess I was not only the only fan of Teacher's Pet, but also the only one who liked it." When I feel that way, I don't understand how others hate it, and wish that they loved it as much as I did. I would have loved to see Teacher's Pet gross billions of dollars, receive A's, become a top box hit, and be just as popular as Aladdin and The Lion King. That's just me, though. I've heard of people who felt like they were the only ones who liked the Rebecca Black song, "Friday."

**garza** · 08-07-2012, 06:33 PM

I'm going to get into trouble. I know that. But I can't help it, now you've asked.

Jane Austen gives me indigestion.

There are many women writers I'm very fond of, ranging from Emily Brontë to Virginia Woolf. A contemporary writer I admire is J.K. Rowling. So 'tis no a matter of gender prejudice, don't you see.

Repeately I've tried and as often failed to read an Austen novel all the way through. Stomach cramps, headache, and an urgent desire to get outside in fresh air are the usual results of such efforts.

I'm sorry.

Edit - I realise I've inverted the OP, but other than raw half-ripe plantain I couldn't think of anything that fit exactly, so I turned the question over.

**Coolb3rt** · 08-07-2012, 06:57 PM

I love it when I am the only one who likes something, that way I know I'm doing at least something right.

**JosephB** · 08-07-2012, 07:01 PM

I’ve known people who stop liking things because they become popular. That just shows they’re more concerned about their image than simply enjoying or appreciating something.

**Bloggsworth** · 08-07-2012, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by garza

I'm going to get into trouble. I know that. But I can't help it, now you've asked.

Jane Austen gives me indigestion.

There are many women writers I'm very fond of, ranging from Emily Brontë to Virginia Woolf. A contemporary writer I admire is J.K. Rowling. So 'tis no a matter of gender prejudice, don't you see.

Repeately I've tried and as often failed to read an Austen novel all the way through. Stomach cramps, headache, and an urgent desire to get outside in fresh air are the usual results of such efforts.

You'll probably meet Mark Twain in your wanderings. I don't like Dickens.

**patskywriter** · 08-07-2012, 07:50 PM

I have a soft spot in my heart for corny music—especially songs that artists pour their hearts into but still turn out bad. On the other hand, I delight in things like those front-lawn-standard pink flamingos, which are supposed to be in bad taste.

When I'm doing my DJ-in-the-park series, I like to share my love for bad music. In my tribute to Donna Summer, I explained that her version of "MacArthur Park" was not the first, and that the original was recorded by Richard Harris. I played a bit of the original, and many of us shuddered as we listened—some shook their heads in disbelief and others laughed out loud.

Sometimes it's just fun to bask in the "badness" as guilt-free as possible, LOL. sunaynaprasad, maybe you'll eventually find people who share your taste in movies.

**IanMGSmith** · 08-07-2012, 08:12 PM

Originally Posted by JosephB

I’ve known people who stop liking things because they become popular. That just shows they’re more concerned about their image than simply enjoying or appreciating something.

Perhaps a bit of image consciousness could help lemmings live longer?

**Euripides** · 08-07-2012, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by IanMGSmith

Perhaps a bit of image consciousness could help lemmings live longer?

I'm less likely to like something if it's wildly popular...

**lasm** · 08-07-2012, 08:43 PM

Unfortunately, whenever I think I'm being unique and clever these days, the only one who knows anything about XYZ, I get on the internet and discover that someone else has been way into XYZ since before I ever heard of it.

I guess I'm one of the shallow people who like things less once they're popular. I think this is because part of the attraction of certain works is that they're unusual or unfamiliar, so once they're everywhere, they lose a little shine for me. It's sort of like when you get an awesome new dress to wear to a wedding, you feel all special and dressed up, then you get there and two other women have the same dress - and one is your frumpy cousin who shops at Dress Barn*. Suddenly it's not so special anymore, is all.

And Garza, I hate Jane Austen, too.

*with apologies if any of you shop at Dress Barn. I've never actually been in one. Maybe it's great. But it's a Dress... Barn. I cannot do it. I am a snob and I don't care.

**Arcopitcairn** · 08-07-2012, 08:54 PM

I too have been known to turn up my nose at popular things, but in my defense, I'm so old, most of the popular things I scoff at are easily dismissed because of my inability to understand kids these days and the things they think are good. Almost everything I like falls between the forties and the eighties.

It is nice to find some hidden interesting gem. Has anyone ever purposefully withheld something they discover from their friends? You know, some tasty little song or book or movie that you want to keep all to yourself? I have been guilty of this, and I don't feel bad about none neither!

**squidtender** · 08-07-2012, 08:54 PM

I stopped liking Godsmack and Slipknot because they became really popular. I know that's crazy, but hey, there it is.
The wife and I have horrible luck with TV shows. Just as we start to love something, they cancel it (Deadwood, the gates, survivors, Jerimiah).
I feel your pain

**JosephB** · 08-07-2012, 09:15 PM

There are several bands I liked before they became popular -- turned some people onto them -- Black Keys, Band of Horses, The Avett Brothers, Kings of Leon. Some of my friends quit listening to them simply because they got popular. I went to see The Avetts just when "I and Love and You" got really big -- a friend of mine said he wouldn't go -- because of that. Silly. Now I don't like the Kings of Leon's new stuff because it sucks -- not because they got huge. In fact, it was the change in the music that made them more accessible. Popular or not -- I just don't like it.

**beanlord56** · 08-07-2012, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by squidtender

I stopped liking Godsmack and Slipknot because they became really popular. I know that's crazy, but hey, there it is.

Huh. I stopped liking both of them out of a personal conviction.

I would like to say I'm the only person in Georgia who likes Star Wars, but the 501st Legion Georgia Garrison and my best friend prove me wrong.

Same goes for my musical tastes. I often feel like the only person in the world who listens to Christian rock and metal, but again my best friend and I both love Demon Hunter, For Today, The Great Commission, Sleeping Giant, War of Ages, and Oh, Sleeper. And I have some friends elsewhere who listened to a few of the bands that I do, but they're not... musically serious.

**squidtender** · 08-07-2012, 11:32 PM

I think I got tired of everyone coming up to me and saying "hey, you should check out this new band!". I could only glare and say "Yeah, I found that new band two years ago".