I didn't like Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Carly Simon, Rickie Lee Jones, Midnight Oil, M.I.A., Joanna Newsom, Joan Osborne, Joan Baez, Faith No More or Crystal Viper at the first, second or even third encounter. Then one day, for who knows what reason, something clicked.
With all of these, it was the same thing. At first I thought it was boring, then I started seeing how it was something worth taking a closer listen to. I see all of them as having good, quality songs now and I see how they all have a lot of personality in their music. It's just not always that the merits of a thing is something that jumps in your face. Sometimes it's the subtle things.
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