Guest "666" wrote: It`s name is prejudice. Generally it`s prompted by a condition called stupidity.

Or experience. One reaches a point at which one simply no longer cares to winnow through all the chaff to find a handful of gems. We compare the quality of the music the pop-centric rave about to other music we've been exposed to over decades, and learn to discount their opinions as underdeveloped. If a songwriter is really good, we tend to hear about their work through more critical venues, and then give a listen. We're not averse to listening to good performers, just on the basis of their being classed "singer-songwriters" by the obtuse, but if someone is introduced that way (for lack of anything more descriptive), we know chances are awfully good we'd enjoy ourselves more clipping the dog's toenails.


Tim Leaning asked: What do you call someone who doesn't sing,play an instrument,write songs or tunes?

Unmarketable? An emcee, storyteller or comic?

Did that question come out the way you intended? Or did you mean something like, "What pseudo-genre does a performer belong to if he's not technically a singer-songwriter?"