1. What you like in art/music happens to be weird, so by definition only liked by a small minority
2. What you like in art/music has to be weird because you want to feel like you're pushing the boundaries, which is a very "art-y" thing IMO
Apparently if you like whatever's on the radio this week, this requires no special analysis, you pass as normal. But if you don't, that must be a reflection of attention-seeking.
What makes it funny is that people who think like this never seem to notice the neuroticism and empathy-weaponization inherent in the need to bucket other people's taste like that.
It is also funny to read about how historic audiences responded to weirdness – and almost all of this music modern audiences would listen to and go "yep, that's classical music."
"Weirdness" is what pushes art forward, sort of by definition. And people will dislike it, also by definition.
I'm not good or prominent enough to have a hope of affecting boundaries in a widespread fashion.
The things that propel this activity are really pretty primitive: A love for the music itself, a feeling that it "deserves" to be performed, even if to a limited audience, pride in the craftsmanship involved, and the social hang.
(2) certainly does describe some people.
There IS some pleasure in learning about things before your friends do. They, on the other hand, have probably learned about YOU that you often get into things that really are terrible.
1. People like different things for different reasons.
2. You think people who appreciate things you don't like are forcing themselves to like it to be twee and artsy, because you can't actually imagine someone who has radically different tastes from yours.
Your comment has a lot of the same energy as this xkcd guy: https://xkcd.com/1534/
People actually do like beer.