I agree with the creativity angle. I reckon our librarian approach contributors would be the designers of "little boxes on the hillside" rather than the writer of the song.

I think MacColl was a creative genius who could also elevate many traditional songs to an entertainment level beyond their source. But he confused his romanticism with a world he claimed to hold a mirror to and completely misread many of the people he claimed to have empathy with. I interviewed him three times for a nationally syndicated hospital radio folk programme and each time left thinking "you should never meet your heros, they disappoint."

All music is fake. It is an abstract, which is why the absurd pigeon holing by those with limited thought on these threads is both sad and funny at the same time.