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- noun The quality of being
folky .
Etymologies
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Professional, paid pundits (think that they) are smarter than their audience, and are able to use their insight (navel-gazing), experience (in some other tangential area), and common sense (gained from spending too much time in a bubble being told how valuable their opinions are) to identify those qualities ( 'folkiness', 'energy') that average Americans (who, really, are not like them at all) are looking for in a candidate.
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There's a kind of folkiness to it because you've got all these other musicians there.
Michael Giltz: Music: Spread This Rumer -- 2012's Best New Artist Is Here Michael Giltz 2012
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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There's a kind of folkiness to it because you've got all these other musicians there.
Michael Giltz: Music: Spread This Rumer -- 2012's Best New Artist Is Here Michael Giltz 2012
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Zee Avi is a celebrated singer/songwriter from Malaysia who packs an emotional wallop with her retro cool indie-rock folkiness making that a word, by the way.
Jon Chattman: A-Sides With Jon Chattman: Zee Avi and Hindi Zahra Perform and Chat in NYC Jon Chattman 2011
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Further down the bill, the notional folkiness is preserved with the likes of the impressive Unthanks, the excellent Alasdair Roberts, and the rather more commercially successful proponents of acoustic music: Laura Marling, and the ebullient Mumford & Sons.
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