You're looking at it from a point of view that says, without a band or anything else to mask weakness, an acoustic performer can be more exposed and rely more on a stripped, raw talent for singing and songwriting.
But Janszoons point is that a lot of people consider this kind of performer to be more connected with their emotions, more "real", and produce music of a higher level of substance because of it. But why cant a metal band produce music with the same kind of qualities? If an individual can hear all of those traits in one and not the other then maybe thats just down to personal preference and perspective?
I can be moved by certain black metal bands more than I can certain acoustic singer/songwriters. Some of them are great and may well produce everything that "these" people say they do. Some of them are whiney and up their own arse and produce nothing but plastic bull****, probably aimed at the kind of person who would hear things in it than arent there, simply because its acoustic and its "real".
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