The article says Paul Simon has a particularly sour view of Simon & Garfunkel’s 1966 song ‘The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)’, saying he hates its words and finds it hard to listen to. It matters because the track became one of the duo’s best-known lighter songs, showing the gap that can open up between a song’s public reputation and its creator’s later feelings about it. The piece presents Simon’s dislike as part of his broader self-critical attitude to his own catalogue.

It explains that the song appeared on *Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme* in 1966 and was written as a brief, upbeat impression inspired by a walk across New York’s 59th Street Bridge. Although Simon later came to dislike the lyrics and the song’s cheerfully slight tone, it remained culturally prominent, was widely covered, and became closely associated with the phrase ‘feelin’ groovy’. The article also notes that Simon was still referencing his dislike of the track decades later, including during his 2018 farewell tour, when he reportedly used it as a kind of joking self-punishment on stage.