Bob Dylan?? What was he modelling??? The mind boggles!
Re. Nicki Minaj perfume, d'ya think Kate Rusby has missed a trick there? Or Laura Marling?
Suzy S-P, I agree with your view on love/money in trad music. As Nicky Johns sings, It's not a bad life
       But you don't get rich..
As for me, I'm there for the songs. A little recognition is nice occasionally, but the songs are the main thing.
Slaid Cleaves, whom I had the great good fortune to hear last night at Hitchin folk club, released an album a while back called Unsung. Songs people hadn't picked up on, that he at least thought were worth putting out there. He was right. If you haven't heard it, then try.
It's the songs that get carried forward. If you like a particular song, get out there and sing it. Keep whatever tradition you are from or in, going. (within reason!)