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* A little more of a lighthearted example to follow: The first time I saw the skit Space Olympics on SNL, I hated it. It was boring. It was stupid. There was autotune. It seemed like a dumbass excuse to put Andy Samberg in a wig and have shiny costumes. I have no idea what changed when I heard it again on Incredibad, but for some reason, it became my favorite song on the album. So delightfully stupid! -- tibieryo
* [[Randomfanboy|I]] hated [[They Might Be Giants|The Statue Got Me High]] the first few times I heard it. It sounded like TMBG at their worst, with lyrics that sounded vaguely meaningful without it actually meaning much. After listening to it a bit more ([[Genre Savvy|due to having lived this trope before]]), I realised it was ''very deliberately'' meaningless - unlike most of their songs, it's just a song about a guy whose head blows up because of a statue. I love it now.
** It gets better. I didn't like [[They Might Be Giants|Apollo 13]] at all -- until I realized that its songs were all references to bad SF/Fantasy movie tropes. ''The Statue Got Me High'' is all about the black monolith at the start of
* "Self Inflicted" (by Kevin O'Donnell's Quality Six) seems to have a title completely at odds with its lyrics, which are specifically about how the singer ''didn't'' bring his suffering on himself, ''isn't'' melodramatically exaggerating or wallowing in it, and would do anything to be rid of it if only he could. Eventually it hit me that the title refers to something never explicitly mentioned in the song: {{spoiler|the fatal wound}}. - [[Tropers/Maso Tey|Maso Tey]]
* The intro the song YYZ by Rush always bothered me. It seemed irregular and out of place. Ever since I found out the intro was, in fact, the phrase "YYZ" in morse code, repeated several times, it's fascinated me. - Neopolis
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