The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #129487   Message #2908068
Posted By: Jeri
16-May-10 - 12:54 PM
Thread Name: Folk singer or folk wringer
Subject: RE: Folk singer or folk wringer
I think it was supposed to be about badly sung traditional songs, and ones that were too long. Traditional songs Bert doesn't like. That's it.

My main beef is with assholes. (I don't think the bad language will get you banned--fuck that--it's probably more about who you aimed it at.) Anyway, it's about assholes. "Folkier than thou" ones and ones who think what they like is the only thing the rest of us should listen to. Assholes who keep trying to push rivers, even though the river doesn't need it, will keep going its own way no matter what, and that attempt to direct the undirectable will serve to make the person look like a complete, not to mention frustrated... asshole.

Mind you, in my present mood, this is more funny (in a Christopher Guest sort of way) than irritating.