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It really isn't. Hatred and infatuation are both further away from understanding than admiration is. So, I expect, is indifference. Then there's the state of 'incomprehension'...
Apart from being technically absurd the quote also gives a message that I don't particularly like. I'll cynical it up with the best of them but I reserve the right to admire things that I understand. In fact, I've discovered that my taste in music largely consists of admiring songs that convey insight that I understand and empathise with. This holds even when confessing to liking Hillary Duff and Pink sends all the wrong signals of affiliation.
I like Pink...
Leave me the fuck alone.
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Sharing CronDAS's appreciation of Pink without, well, inviting him to come home. Good song that. Perhaps her best.
"Who Knew?" would have been less of an apparent vulgar non-sequitur.
You're right and I love that song too!
Haven't actually heard that one.
The ones I can remember having heard on the radio are "Who Knew?", "U + Ur Hand", "So What", "Sober", and "Please Don't Leave Me". I liked them all.
To put it In context, the quote should read: "admiration for another person is the state furthest from understanding."
Infatuation would probably be a better word to describe the attitude of the character Aizen's referring to in that quote, although the subtitle says "admiration."