Err…but I knew a lot of songs before I was 'one of us' – is the problem being 'one of us' ?

I get really p****d off with this crap about, "the revival' versus the 'tradition' I have not stopped being myself at any time (so far) and in my reckoning I'm a person - or are the 'people' now some elite to which I may not belong? If so then they and not I are in the minority.