Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive.
I'm a huge fan of a lot of different genres of music, and I really felt like somehow I had been pigeonholed a little bit - maybe of my own doing - and in a way where I felt like I was sort of falsely defined. What my music was being called wasn't really the music I was always listening to.
I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'
I think that people are too... They've become genre snobs.
It can be a bit frustrating to always get the soft-rock stamp.
World music can be sometimes like the lumber room in which all the non-English singers are dumped. When you are singing in Arabic, no matter what your style of music or artistic proposition is, you are faced with some of that reality.
Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.
I feel like certain people think that certain styles of music will taint their jazz style.
