And they wrote songs about it. Joan Jett built a career on a song about hating love with “I Hate Myself for Loving You.” But country music has its fair share of love-hating songs, too.

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Once an artist releases a song into the world, they lose control of its public interpretation, which has led to a lot of downright creepy, weird, or even hateful songs being mistaken as love songs.