Let's pick a band/artist you love, and a band/artist you hate. For example, let's say that you love the Beatles but you hate Styx. And let's say that tomorrow morning you wake up in a parallel dimension where the two bands switch places, so that Tommy Shaw and Dennis DeYoung are the two most acclaimed songwriters in pop music history, having written such great hits as "Yesterday" and "Strawberry Fields Forever", and their band Styx is the biggest band of all time. Meanwhile, two young men from Liverpool, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, team up to form a band called the Beatles and released a concept album about robots taking over, featuring a song called "Mr. Roboto". Although the songs and the critical acclaim have switched (in other words, Styx has written all the Beatles hits and their albums are held in the same high regard that the Beatles are now) the individual personalities of each artist is intact: if you'd like, you can imagine a "Hard Day's Night" like movie starring John, Paul, George, and Ringo, except instead of having Beatles' songs on the soundtrack, it features "Babe" and "Snowblind." Nobody will remember that these two bands used to be reversed, only you. So the question: are you a Beatles fan or a Styx fan*?
(*Or Stones and Bon Jovi, or Radiohead and Jonas Brothers, et cetera)
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regardless of the situation i am a fan of mr.roboto
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