Yes you do not. Folklore definitions, per Merriam-Webster:

1: traditional customs, tales, sayings, dances, or art forms preserved among a people
2: a branch of knowledge that deals with folklore
3: an often unsupported notion, story, or saying that is widely circulated

Anyway...

I think the way the world works now, and has worked for a while, not many people in English speaking countries gets folk music in traditional ways. This IS a change, but centuries from now, the experts will probably see the people of this time passed music by way of books and recordings.

There is a lot of sneering about the whole "horses" don't sing quote, and some folks have that cute little "horse alert", but when you get down to it, the quote is accurate. What the guards of the tradition want is to separate what has gone before from what happens now. The old songs will be part of what gets passed on to future generations, but so will a lot of pop stuff that folkies may not care for. After all, this traditional music we love was the pop music of its day. In any case, it doesn't matter if people don't like something. It's easy to add music to the collective consciousness, to remember it, and impossible to make other people forget music.

I keep hearing an ad for a TV show - "Army Wives". The song is "Bright Morning Stars". If people can find it and it's good, it will get passed on.