The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #100172   Message #2006468
Posted By: GUEST,Shimrod
25-Mar-07 - 05:06 AM
Thread Name: Is this a folk song?
Subject: RE: Is this a folk song?
"In the end, when I listen to something, it is up to me if I call it folk or otherwise. it is my right to have that opinion, and that opinion is shaped by 25 years+ on the folk scene. Again what I dont call folk, someone else may do. It's their right,...."

Yes, it is up to you what you call it (it's your responsibility). In practice you have a "right" to an uninformed opinion (there's not much evidence in your post that those 25 years have taught you very much) - but the informed have an even greater "right" to disagree with your opinion. As far as I am concerned insisting on your "rights", in these circumsatnces, just emphasises the weakness of your position.

Uninformed, 'off-the-top-of-my-head' theorising brings absolutely nothing to the debate. Although, of course, everyone has a "right" to invent such spurious theories.