Hi Kids: Pink understands something that many of you don't. It's that Music is a living, breathing thing. It's changing. It doesn't stay in the same place. It grows. Look around you. All things grow or they die. Folk Music is like that too. The impression that many of you give is that Folk Music "can only be this..." and "cannot be that..." Like it has too be in some form of "Time Vacuum", "Acoustic", "Specific Rhythms" to be"Pure" Well, you might as well take a shotgun and kill it...

MUSICIANS are people who have the ability to COMMUNICATE to those who are NOT musicians. They REACH people. While many of you seem to be content in living in the past. There are others who realize it's a brand new world out there. And what worked 40 years ago just ain't happenin' today. So Pink will use Hip-Hop elements to reach her audience. She can move between genres. She is an Artist. First and foremost. It's just another color in the palette to get her Art to the people.

Who gets this? Bob Dylan, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Cockburn, Bare Naked Ladies, Feist, James Blunt, Pink, and many others. They can do it with an acoustic guitar/piano/vocals, or they can plug in...

Odetta got it...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jGSiaDj_fw=related
OMG! Electric piano, Amps, freekin' AMPS. WOW...
She's still singing a song, and telling a story...Bless...
And really, how DIFFERENT is that and Pink with "Mr. President?"

So don't be-atch about the "Death of Folk Clubs," "no Airplay on mainstream radio" or other forms of nonsense... Get out there and don't be afraid to try new things, and CREATE in new ways. The music is more important than another pint. Or soon, you will be compost...BR/:<)