With all these things it helps if you know and understand the background of what you are listening to. Those unfamiliar with folk might complain that reels are a repetitive set of scale exercises which all sound alike. Only when you put the sound together with the people, the atmosphere, the culture, and the history does it become meaningful. Once you appreciate all these things, it becomes possible to find the music alone meaningful. Occasionally, a piece of music - folk, classical or pop - can just reach out and grab you without the baggage but you have to be open-minded about being grabbed. This is music at its best. The others are right. Enjoy what you enjoy and be grabbed by what grabs you. But don't suggest that something is rubbish because you don't like (or know about) it. Just be open-minded and perhaps one day Mozart's Queen of the Night will embrace you whether you like it or not!