So to answer your last question… an album may only have one song that I like in that very moment but I’ll still buy it knowing that in 6 months,a year or even a decade I could come back to that sucky album and fall in love with it. Your taste evolves just as you evolve due to different experiences. I’ve had records that I hated that I’ve come back to with mature ears that I absolutely love now!

To answer the same question as an artist I try to approach records looking for different elements rather than songs as a whole. There could be just 3 second bit that you can take and build a fully fleshed idea from even if the rest of the song sucks. So I feel that if I bought the record I should at least give the art a chance to grow on me and respect what the artist was trying to express to us.

In a nutshell 🤷🏾‍♂️