Dunno. Growing up in the Irish community music has always been an inter-generational thing so successive generations are always looking back to old tunes and old records as well as pinching tunes from Scottish, American, European and even English(!) traditions. On the other hand, a lot of young acts seem to have done nothing more strenuous in search of material than trawling through Youtube or going through their parents' record collections. If 'originality' just means a new generation of willowy young things with acoustic guitars and eating disorders I wonder how far we've really come.

On the other hand, I became a parent in my 40s and over the last 10 or 12 years I've been exposed to a lot of pop music it would never have occurred to me to listen to otherwise. Do you know what? Some of it is fucking great!