Rolf Klausener of The Acorn admits his first crush was Olivia and his parents always made fun of him. He also liked Julie Andrews. He was into the British and Australian chicks.

Now here is the question, did anyone ever make fun of you that you liked Olivia either in school or out of school?

Nobody ever made fun of me BUT I did get some very strange looks......like....What do you like HER for?? I did cop some smirks, I guess that is a form of 'making fun'. None of my circle of friends bought any of her music.

I was in school when she was at the height of her career. As I became older, friends use to also smirk at me for liking her too Jacky.

What I find interesting is that people in their fourties and fifties seem to relate to her more than people who are younger. I was not into Olivia as much when she started producing the Rumor or Warm and Tender because I was in college and I was not a parent. I could not relate.

I know when she was at the height of her career Stevie Nicks was also on the scene in a big way and it was 'cool' to like Stevie. Personally I can't handle that womans voice.

Yeah, some people always smirk or giggle when you mention Olivia as a serious musician that you listen to. So, to get around that, I used to say " And a guilty pleasure of mine is Olivia Newton-John, because I had such a crush on her as a kid."
That seems more acceptable.

These days people seem more accepting. They usually say to me 'Oh yeah, she is really lovely isn't she.

Well I liked her and even her old songs (from the country days), and friends would smile. A lot of guys would have considered that liking Olivia was a bit "girlie" for a guy. But they probably thought she was beautiful.
If you liked rock it was ok, but adult contemporary (if that term existed back then) was for the people that weren't hip.

I never hid that I liked her. She also filled stadiums so I guess she was popular enough.
Not embarassed but conscious that it wasn't always considered terribly masculine.
Now it's even worse with her association with the gay community, as if her music was mostly attracting gays...Except that she gets a certain respect from being a veteran and classy ex-superstar. She has some sort of legend's status.