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Related to music and art within Christianity, earlier today my wife had some old saved K-LOVE songs on and I just had to leave the room because it was so.. gene

Related to music and art within Christianity, earlier today my wife had some old saved K-LOVE songs on and I just had to leave the room because it was so.. generic. Like not even vanilla but actually unflavored ice cream. So I’ve been listening to Gungor’s older stuff since then because it actually has creativity and originality to it and I wish Christian music could embrace that. Heck I think if I was in the mood for Christian music I would listen to Schism by Tool sooner than anything ever played on K-LOVE. It seems mainstream Christian music is designed purely to give people semi happy feelings and rake in as much money as possible, and because of that there’s no real art to almost any of it.

michaelchisari 9y ago
I think Hank Hill hit it on the head with his take on Christian Rock. "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock-n-roll worse."
lsc 9y ago
Eh, I think a lot of it is that sturgeon's law dominates all. most pop is bad in that generic way, and Christian pop is a small subset of all pop. If you really go deep into any niche genre, there's a lot of bad music that you won't hear unless you really search for music within that obscure genre. I mean, I think that's part of why so much classical music is so good; we only hear what people thought was worth preserving and replaying for hundreds of years. I mean, one of my favorite pieces of music overall could be classified as christian music... Beethoven's 9th. But mostly, I think it's the 'small genre' issue. I mean, I went through a period where I only listened to punk, and then only to certain obscure sub genres of punk, and you get to a point where there's one good band... then sometimes only one good song, and the rest, well, you've filtered on genre rather than quality, so most of it is crap.

michaelchisari 9y ago

I think Hank Hill hit it on the head with his take on Christian Rock. "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making rock-n-roll worse."

lsc 9y ago

Eh, I think a lot of it is that sturgeon's law dominates all. most pop is bad in that generic way, and Christian pop is a small subset of all pop. If you really go deep into any niche genre, there's a lot of bad music that you won't hear unless you really search for music within that obscure genre. I mean, I think that's part of why so much classical music is so good; we only hear what people thought was worth preserving and replaying for hundreds of years. I mean, one of my favorite pieces of music overall could be classified as christian music... Beethoven's 9th. But mostly, I think it's the 'small genre' issue. I mean, I went through a period where I only listened to punk, and then only to certain obscure sub genres of punk, and you get to a point where there's one good band... then sometimes only one good song, and the rest, well, you've filtered on genre rather than quality, so most of it is crap.