I’m trying a different sort of theme this week: music I don’t like.

OK, that’s not entirely accurate. Some of the songs I feature this week I’ll like quite a bit. But the trait all of the featured artists share is the disconnect between their critical reception and my (lack of) appreciation of them.

These, in other words, are artists I’m supposed to like but don’t.

After nearly a decade of obscurity, Canadian singer-songwriter Feist hit it big in 2007 with her album The Reminder and the ubiquitous song ‘1234.’ That tune was used in an Apple Nano commercial and became an instant hit.

Critics latched on to The Reminder as the assured work of a confident, avant-garde talent, drawing comparisons to artists from Bjork to Joni Mitchell. In the words of a Pitchfork reviewer, she has “a voice that could make even Dick Cheney weep.”

I picked up the album after reading a batch of these reviews and, as so often happens, barely made it through it once due to sheer boredom. I liked ‘1234’ well enough but the rest just left me flat. I haven’t listened to it since.

So here I am, selecting a Feist song at random to feature on the blog today, and I’ll be damned if it isn’t a great one. Did I miss the bus the first time around? Or did I just get lucky and pick one of the only songs on the album I like? I suppose I owe The Reminder another listen.