I hereby would like to apologize for having a difference of opinion with the OP. He is right. Only classically trained opera singers should be considered good artists, as all others are merely hacks and anyone who listens to them are not kewl. When a Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Sex Pistols, Frank Zappa, Little Richard, Beatles, Rolling Stones, or James Brown song comes on, I turn it off because it is culturally irrelevant music made by people with imperfect pitch. What is this world coming to? All those talentless hacks should learn how to sing, then maybe someone would take them seriously.