If you just a vocalist I think artist makes more sense than musician. Musician (while not necessarily true) implies playing instruments or production or something beyond just vocals

yes

i play piano but i dont make music and would never call myself an artist

hm

sure, but “artists” don’t really call themselves “vocalists” much either

Would you consider someone who plays the flute for school an artist?

Also dont call it stupid bc its not stupid

Its not my fault u dont know what a session player is

That's true. I think vocalist implies singing which a good amount of rappers don't do, or at least it isn't their primary focus

Artist when speaking musically can be a rock band, a rapper, a singer, a trumpet player etc etc. I think people who create music in more than one lane (they rap and sing for example) like using it cause it covers it all

An artist is a frontman, usually a vocalist (non-traditional classically trained singer type)

A musician is anyone who makes music. Every artist is a musician (there’s contention against this, that’s another convo) but not every musician is an artist

They cant play instruments so they scared to call themselves musicians lol they "artists"

the voice is an instrument

the only thing “vocalist” implies is the use of vocals

it doesn’t have to specifically be singing, that’s what a singer is

bunch of technical terrie’s in here

I'm an artist and producer

Cause it’s “a box”

I mean the technical definition I agree with you, I'm just talking bout the perception. If somebody tells me they're a vocalist my mind goes to singer not rapper

Eee urrrr

what are you even talking about nigga?

like i literally took singing lessons for a year, that is not how they term vocalist in industries whatsoever

because that's exactly what it is hence the distinction between vocalist and a singer

these niggas are in here trying to be pretentious for no reason

They dont use those right either

In football recruiting, high school players will often get recruited as “athletes” if they haven’t picked their position yet for college, and they play multiple positions in HS. So they’ll sign him on as an athlete instead of a “wide receiver” and then figure out their best fit once they’re in the program.

Might be related might not

Because a lot of these niggas don’t have the fundamentals and technical foundations to be called vocalists or musicians. They often times work with them though.

at all

it’s so pretentious to say someone’s not a vocalist unless they’re classically trained lmfao

that's how the term is used man. there would be no point in distinguishing a singer from a vocalist at that point

it may be how the term is used in certain circles (i assume its just with professional singing type stuff since thats all i can really find) but it is absolutely not how the term is used in common speech. where vocalist = person who performs vocals

and like i was kinda saying earlier a distinction between the 2 terms is that there are different types of musical vocals besides just singing that people include under the word vocalist