This thread first alerted me to this video. Prejudice at firest stopped me looking at anything to do do with the 'Gots Talent' programme and their talentless panel of judgemental self seekers. However, I did succumb, and am thoroughly glad that I did. People described it as 'heart warming', and it was. And if that is sentimentalism, then I'm glad I still retain a bit of it. Some of what I've read above actually makes me nauseous. If that kind of dismissive, elitist, partial nastiness is typical of music lovers, folk or other, I'd cancel my subscription to any lists involving them now. LOOK, she sang for the joy of it, she did it well, beyond our mere critics' capabilities. Too bad she didnm't sing a Child ballad, but she sang wonderfully. If anyone doesn't see why that isn't 'folk', and wants to call it something else, that really is their problem based on ignorance, prejudice, and probaly an attack of piles. See many other threads on 'WHAT IS' type questions.
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