The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #93702   Message #1823668
Posted By: Marje
31-Aug-06 - 12:52 PM
Thread Name: Folkies in wife swap
Subject: RE: Folkies in wife swap
Don't do it! If you've ever seen the programme, you'd run a mile rather than get involved. The people who do take part are all either obsessive, dysfunctional or barking mad.

The "folk" wife (who would have to be a drippy-hippy with long hair and ethnic clothes) would be sent to be wife-and-mother to some trendy, fat, pretentious kids who wouldn't be seen in the street with her, let alone persuaded of the value of folk music. The father would be a truck-driver who ate junk food, chain-smoked, and found the woman and her tastes incomprehensible. She would drag them all to a session or folk event and they would hate it.

The folk family, in turn, would be subjected to the attentions of a daft trollop who spent all day polishing her nails and buying furry pink cushions for the sofa. She would bring her own music to convert them - CDs, she wouldn't be able to play an instrument - probably some sort of "easy-listening" or disco twaddle.

If all this sounds like lazy stereotypes, that's what the programme's about. Tha chances are that folk clubs/festivals etc would be caricatured and made to look ridiculous. Folk needs more exposure, but not this, believe me.