ASCAP award-winning songwriter Kelly Clarkson is complaining that many record executives are refusing to take a female’s song-writing capabilities seriously.

“Everybody doesn’t like me writing all the time, no matter how many number ones you write. It’s clearly like yelling at a brick wall. It’s because I’m a woman… a young woman. I literally heard somebody say it. They didn’t know I was on the phone… I hung up. I was like, ‘I can’t even address that… That was the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard,” Kelly tells Entertainment Weekly.