1. It's not either/or. You can like traditional music and Celtic-synth. One does not replace the other.

2. We tend to accentuate the folk point of view here becaues it is a folk site. There is probably a Celtic-synth site somewhere with young punks complaining about all the damned fiddles and squeeze boxes.

3. The point of the song, I think, is the content of modern songs versus folk songs. Why aren't people writing about actual murders, disasters, and so on? Why aren't there topical songs that tell stories any more? Why should anyone care about some singer/songwriter's precious little love life?