For me the main issue about Mudcat is more the tone than the precise content. This is one of the friendliest places on the net, combining fascinating information about music with good nature about people. So long as that tone continues, I don't have much concern about Mudcat's future.

I don't think its likely that simple requests for "pop" lyrics will change the tone and I am regularly amazed and delighted about where those requests can take us. Nor do the requests take up much space and time, if no one has information or interest in the song.

At the same time, though, I do think that there is some risk to the tone if we adopted a "folkier than thou" response to requests for "pop" lyrics. In the minimum, it could take us down the road of spending as much time trying to define what music we should talk about as we do talking about music (and related delights).

So my inclination is to ignore requests that I'm not interested in (some) and don't have information about (many) and try to follow threads that are interesting. Now if only there was more time ...