Threads like this are pointless. In the end, it all boils down to personal taste - and where that's concerned, there are no rules.

Getting away from the performer in question, take two other performers who form my (fairly) extreme like/dislike poles: (1) Richard Thompson (2) Frank Sinatra.

For me, RT can do no wrong, but good friends of mine can't stand him - don't know what he's about. Those same friends adore Frank Sinatra. I can't stand him - never have, never will.

What does all this prove? Nothing - other than that we each have different tastes! As it happens, I agree with punkfolkrocker about Ms. Osborne - but so what? Others like her, and why shouldn't they?

(apologies for truncated last post)