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Jessica Sanders89 said:Everyone keeps complaining about folk music, yet I can't name two decent folk artists—and that’s being generous if we're talking about some low-budget anthem like "America is Damned." I have no idea where this stuff is even played. What is it? Who sings it? I live in New York City, and frankly, it feels like the only place you'd encounter it is down on some specific outskirts. I’ve never been suffocated by folk music; whenever I go out, I never hear it on stations like KROQ, WXPN, NPR, or any of the local FM outlets. It’s like they don't even exist. I don't get why everyone is so bitter about folk when you can easily avoid it. It isn't some unavoidable cultural phenomenon like knowing who Bob Dylan is or what happened with the last President. In my view, folk might exist somewhere, but it’s not the plague people make it out to be based on these posts.
As far as I'm concerned, let people listen to whatever they want. But if people are listening to it as much as you all claim, that says something about the American music scene. When you're constantly served nothing but mediocre acts like some generic pop starlet or a guy singing about how quiet his suburban street is, it’s no wonder people turn to lower impulses.
My impression is that in America, people mostly listen to pop—specifically trendy pop. There's no real quality control; it's just whatever is being imported from overseas, mostly via UK playlists (if that weren't the case, some idiot would actually be going to see Mus), and that kind of pop is distributed heavily through mainstream radio. You hear it in every shop and coffee house.