Taylor's work tended more toward love songs, while Simon and Garfunkel explored more feel-good songs and updated arrangements of folk songs like "Scarborough Fair."
Meanwhile, Mitchell, a painter, became hugely popular as a singer/songwriter although her songs tended to be more personal and introspective than songwriters of the 60s like Dylan and his topical contemporary Phil Ochs.
This new wave of folk-pop singer/songwriters seemed to be riding the coattails of the 1960s' most popular folk-pop group Peter, Paul and Mary, whose work was part Kingston Trio silliness and part social protest. Nonetheless, the new adaptation of folk-pop saw singer/songwriters focusing more on issues of personal importance than on widespread issues like Civil Rights or anti-war topics like their predecessors.
