The main problem with listening to S/S types is that most of their songs aren't very good. That's not surprising--most of anything isn't very good. The singer of traditional songs has the advantage of having his material more or less pre-filtered; the really bad stuff tends to disappear before he sings it.
    Yes, it takes some guts to bare your soul in public; it also takes some chutzbah to limit yourself to what you've written. Neither guts nor chutzbah adds significantly to entertainment value, though.