Musicwrite thought for the day

[meserach.livejournal.com]

Is the current folk revival thing we've got going on (Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons being the touchstones I'm thinking of here) a reaction to the Auto-tuned artificalness of late noughties music in the same way that the seeing out of authenticity from souls in the late eighties was a reaction to the artificiality of the early eighties?

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[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i was thinking that they're more an "authenticity" reaction to Landfill Indie than to autotuney stuff (if we think that ppl playing gtrs are more likely to listen to others playing gtrs than other pop musics), but when you look at eg liza carthy and seth lakeman as early poineers of this sort of stuff they're both scions of Very Proper Folky Dynasties so maybe it's almost just a generational thing?