may I steal this quote, it's perfect.
and yes, it's really annoying how people nowadays (by nowadays I mean, since I was born, and before that, in contrast to e.g. the times where the most innovative classical concerts were being composed, and were popular) seem to be unable to listen to instrumental music. as if "songs" were the only kind of music that exists, ignoring the obvious fact that there are like a trillion more ways to combine and compose things using the whole scale of possible sounds, not only the tiny fraction that is vocals... like the people in my country who just lurk around the German part of the internet, unimpressed by and resistant to the possibility to explore the WHOLE internet... using "de.youtube.com" so they get content that's been filtered for them, made German-appropriate (and that while they could still use the regular youtube.com in German language). and regarding the music, it feels like so many people simply have an urge to cathegorize things they hear, so they rather do that instead of just listening and reacting to what they hear.
people try to do it when I listen to whatever stuff, it's frustrating - "this is like it's music for people that are, in clubs" - "this, to me, is like techno" - "this is like for people who meditate, yoga music"
and you just want to tell them ffs, just listen, then decide whether you like it or not, and don't try to grasp what it IS (especially since you're failing miserably at it too)