Why are there people who don't like the Beatles?

I mean, that just flat out don't like the Beatles.

I'd try to compare it to disliking some other popular or cultural phenomenon, but the comparisons break down immediately because no band or author has been as prolific and as varied as the Beatles. It's just a lazy untruth to say you don't like them.

Maybe you don't like their poppy early stuff, because you've heard it all eight million times on annoying radio shows. Fair. Maybe you don't like their totally weird experimental stuff, because it's totally weird and experimental. Also fair. And maybe you don't like the white album, because frankly it was pretty bad.

But, seriously, to say, "I don't like the Beatles" is an open admission that you hate freedom and probably don't have a soul. Couldn't you at least be a bitter music nerd and decide that you only like the songs that are a minute and a half long and not really singable, like "Golden Slumbers?"

They're not my favorite band and they don't have to be yours. But please, slow down, listen to Revolver, and come back and see me.