Music Rehabilitation Program?

I'm trying to decide if I want to Reclaim a goopy emo song I like. I have avoided it like anthrax for three years due to its bad romantic associations--haven't listened to it all the way through once since then-- but the thing I'm discovering is I still have a musical appreciation for it, although it's also still informed somewhat by the goopiness it has. I dunno, can I make it mine, only mine? Send myself/it through a systematic desensitization process so that it is laundered clean from associations? This is the challenge. I feel a bit like tackling it. Or perhaps it's a slide down into a hole! Dunno.