"...most young people (age is the subject at hand, in case you hadn't noticed) want social interaction with their peers more than they want to pledge allegiance to a particular way of performing music, especially when that particular way of music is intolerantly dictated to them by anal older adults with no tolerance for youthful innovation."

You get that from Kate Rusby? Or John McCusker? Or any of a number of other young performers?

"I think bad Brit songwriters end up singing "folk songs" because they don't have to be embarrassed by their own ineptitude when it comes to songwriting."

I was getting worked up over what GUEST was saying. Then he made the above general statement and I realized he is only expressing his own inner frustrations and bigoted attitude.