Not wishing to start another arguement, but in all my years working in folk clubs, certainly in the last ten or so I've never heard anyone sing "tedious, introspective, teenage angst ditties."
Are these just a figment of certain people's imagination, like arran sweaters are to journalists, or are they to be found in "sessions" which I never attend, or have I just been lucky? I would like a serious answer to this as I think these are the same people who are called "snigger/snogwriters" who I've also never seen, but who, because of people's lazy attitude of lumping things together, appear to have dragged some brilliant folk based songwriters down with them.