![]() Most of the music most Christians call "Satanic," (like heavy metal), have been all directly inspired by the great classics like Beethoven, Bach, etc. They want to hear more inspirational topics. Jesus supposedly preached about feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, housing the poor, and forgiving the sinner, correct? Instead of making the 5,789th CCM song about how you were personally saved with the same boring three chords.why not instead write songs to promote the actual nature of Christ? Nobody wants to hear about your moment of being saved. It doesn't have to be Christian in nature to be just, and Christians can certainly use these various styles for their purposes as well. Anger is a high emotion that music, secular or otherwise, is easy to tap into. Racism, murder, rape, genocide, torture, starvation the strongmen imposing their will on the world. Expressing that rage, and trying to turn it into righteousness in fighting against it, and resisting the evil. Billy Idol in We Didn't Start the Fire was RAGING against the injustices of the world. No Christian should ever deny the legitimacy, power, and righteousness of anger. The lyrics about the horrors of the 20th century, connect with the grungy, angry nature of the music.Īnger is an entirely natural emotion, that even the Bible promotes. This is one of my all-time favorite peices of music as well. "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Idol. Instead, it is very much along the lines of what Jesus was actually trying to say throughout most of the New Testament Īs for hard rock style, again, it can be inspirational with the correct lyrics. He's not bragging about how he was "saved" and having a homoerotic narrative with Jesus. While that particular song almost sounds like CCM-style: boring, repetive, limited chords, the lyrics are actually inspirational. John Lennon's "Imagine" is a great example of what I'm talking about in the previous paragraph. I know this is a Christian forum, but many posts in this thread have basically been trying to downplay secular rock as being unfulfilling. The very best, most inspirational pieces of music is NOT about the self, but rather about unity, peace, and understanding between different people. That gets very old very quickly, and is in all honesty, shallow. ![]() ![]() It's always "me," and "I." How "I am saved," etc. It's an absolutely beautiful peice of music.Īs for the "Homoerotic" nature of CCM music, it is also extremely selfish. It is entirely uplifting, and as an atheist, one of my personal favorite pieces of music of all time. It is upbeat, runs up and down the scales, has a very heavy almost rock-and-roll (African)-style beat and is very celebratory in nature. These are clues that music is NOT supposed to be boring, repetitive, etc. If I'm not mistaken, there are clues in the Bible, particularly the OT, where the crashing of cymbals (percussion) and blowing of horns is promoted by your god. The repetitiveness of the lyrics, the chords, and the tone is boring and honestly quite unappealing, to say the least. I'm not going to point out anything in particular out, but this post is on the right track. There is a lot of untrue statements throughout this thread. I'm am atheist, raised Catholic, so a different perspective from most on here, perhaps. Sometimes I would rather listen to secular music because those artists for the most part care about creating art, why can't Christian music have that mentality, you can still worship God while creating something good.Ĭlick to expand.My first post here. There is nothing wrong with adding some The Letter Black on the radio. The only Skillet songs I've heard were any of their soft ballads. The hardest rock they'll have is Casting Crowns. I would love to turn on the radio and hear some hard rock, any form of hip hop, alternative rock, ecteronic style music. Why does Christian radio have the most boring and bland collection of Christian music? You really have to search for actual good Christian artist, I been looking at more indie Christian musicians and other alternative bands who you won't hear on CCM radio and they are great. I am a Christian but I admit I do have my own musical tastes and the slow worship songs are fine but not for me. Nothing just sounds creative, it's all bland. In CCM stations whether it be local or satellite, all the songs sounds the same, same repetitive chords and voices. ![]() A few years ago where I live K-Love moved to another channel and in that channels place came a new Christian station which is slightly better, more rock, some hip hop mixed in but still has the same problems. I used to be someone who always listened to stations like K-Love. ![]()
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