Petrarchive – Is ITAOTS The Last Piece Of (Trve) Folk Music?

Surely a folk song in the traditional sense has to be truly popular. What percentage of people in the UK or America would even vaguely recognise a Neutral Milk Hotel song? I think it can't be higher than 5%. Obviously it's a meme in /mu/sic circles but that's all it is, which means it's only folk music if the Folk under consideration is the international diaspora of /mu/tants. And actually I am quite amenable to the analogy between real life nationalities and internet 'national' identities. But such a consideration is a necessity for your claim.

Imagine not being able to listen to a piece of music without five layers of self-reflective internet irony preventing you from hearing the plain truth. Log off OP.

OP is an irritating nu-soyboy who lived on the East Coast of in the Midwest, wakes up and immediately grabs his phone to start spamming /pt/ with his abysmal takes, rehashing the same conversations others had a dozen years ago for no discernible benefit other than to appear 'esoteric' in comparison to his Tiktok peers. I wish he would go back to Valorant or whatever the pudgy angry boys are playing nowadays.

this album had a very folksy pastoral quality to it but I agree with >>10224 it's just not ubiquitous enough. the last western trad folk song (popular, played by normies on simple acoustic guitar) was probably stairway to heaven

>>10224
It's probably 30%+ in certain neighborhoods. I don't know enough about musicology or folk music history to know how much ubiquity in Greenwich Village vs. Wichita is taken into consideration, just saying. /mu/ diaspora is pretty inclusive imo.

>>10228
wonderwall? a jack johnson joint?

>>10224

Point taken but for the 18-50 demographic it’s probably at least like 25%

>>10234
I really feel like you are in a bubble to a certain extent. It's like that xkcd joke about geochemists: even accounting for the fact that most people know much less about indie/alternative music, you are still *way* overestimating how much most people know. The average person knows one Radiohead song and has never heard of Shoegaze. Why do you think they would know NMH, a band obscure enough that its obscurity was used as a joke in at least one sitcom.

>>10233
wonder wall sux but stairway will live on forever, that's folk

It's nothing like folk music. It's also one million times more brilliant than its retarded detractors claim. Genuinely one of the few popular music masterpieces of the last three or four decades.

popular?