Paradox?

 I got an email from someone who's done a project of setting Spanish poetry to music.  It should be exciting to have them come here. But they want to invite themselves here, have us pay $2000 and hotel / flights, and they feature versions of LGM and Fernando Valverde.  We pay our keynote speaker every year $600, someone we invite, not someone inviting themselves.  

So my own prejudice against LGM wins out? It would be an event my students might enjoy, since I am teaching a course on the topic.  But I listened to the singer and I didn't like him, either.  Do I dislike a lot of the cantautores, or a lot of what they do? Indeed.