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De_El:
@KVP Natalie Portman denatured his creative acids.
scarred:
wait, so what are Fleet Foxes if not folk?
KharBevNor:
I dunno anything about fleet foxes, but the acid test of whether a particular artist is a folk artist is generally whether they have played traditional songs, or variations on traditional songs, at any point in their career. The 'folk' tag after all refers to a specific sort of cultural production, transmission and consumption, a folk tradition that extends back before recorded music, and if you are not engaging in any way with this tradition it is fairly difficult to see why you should be called a folk artist. There are marginal cases where a bands instrumentation and style of song-writing is highly constrained by traditional forms, especially if the band is actively engaged in the folk music scene (although in such cases there is often a more specific genre not tied exactly to the folk mode, like 'celtic' or 'bluegrass'). A hell of a lot of people just seem to use 'folk' as a synonym for 'acoustic'.
StaedlerMars:
Fine, anti-folk then. Although, personally I think it can be argued that since the 60s folk music hasn't been as much about singing traditional songs as about singing stories.
KharBevNor:
No it couldn't.
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