Those days(referring to college) I used to feel one particular band/flavour of music will not interest me more than a few weeks/months.
But then came the period of when I bowed in mesmerization to the music of Alanis Morissette. That was solace.

ox⋅y⋅mo⋅ron [ok-si-mawr-on, -mohr-]
–noun, plural -mo⋅ra [-mawr-uh, -mohr-uh]
a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”
(by Dictionary.com)