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?

Comments

[meserach.livejournal.com]

You're all right, I'm just noticing a sort of prominence, in discussion and critical acclaim and general awareness, at least in the circles I pay attention to, of folk-inspired music - I shouldn't thereby posit that any more folky stuff is actually being made.

So I guess this about perception. But isn't it always?

[koganbot]

Well, the types who'd be reacting against AutoTune would have been reacting against Britney and ilk for years anyway, so I doubt that they'd have needed Jay Sean and Jason DeRulo and Iyaz to push them further. What I hinted at below seems more likely, that Marling in particular can draw on Adele-Duffy-Tashbed fans, on folkies, and on indie freak folkers, so could be a good general crossover between Starbucks and an actual den of coffeehouse bohemians. And she's real sexy. And talented, actually, though she's no Taylor. At least not yet. Haven't heard her new alb. alexmacpherson loves it, fuzzyedges is disappointed.