Christian Music Sucks!
It doesn’t make me happy to say that. And yes, I do consider myself a Christian, even though in todays culture that word carries a lot of negative connotation with it. And any long time viewers of this blog will know that I am a music lover, from all genres. There’s currently over 4,000 songs on my iPod; some rock, punk, country, rap, blues, jazz and everything else.
Just about all music genres will have ’some’ good artist. Christian music is no exception, there ARE talented musicians within the Christian music genre; Shawn McDonald is one of the most played artist on my iPod and Mat Kearney is also way talented. But, the problem with 99% of Christian music is - I’m not buying it. Do these people really know what it means to follow Jesus? It’s not happy go lucky. In fact, anyone that has taken even a brief look at the Bible will conclude that people who follow Jesus do not end up with their life on easy street with all their problems solved. Most of the people that followed Jesus were ridiculed, martyred, imprisoned, or exiled.
So Christian musicians need to get real.
May 7th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
some christian bands i’ve really been digging lately:
the danielson family
bishop allen
sufjan stevens
May 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Dude, you are proving your point. Singing about following Christ invariably means that you will not be listenened to by those that don’t want to hear people singing about following Christ.
I’m not sure what that means, actually.
I agree with you, though. My problem with most of it is that as soon as you slap the label “Christian” on it the quality slinks down a notch or two. I have no real idea why, though. Why can’t some band come along that rocks the house and still serves the Lord with their music?
Anyone?
Ben O.
May 10th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Try listening to some Underoath. Their produce Christian stuff with a bit of a difference.
May 11th, 2007 at 8:27 am
@hubs: cool, thanks for sharing, I take a look at those bands.
@Ben: I don’t get it either…
@Will: Underoath you say? I’ll chech’em out, thanks.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
I totally agree, I think one of the main problems of Christian rock music is that rock isn’t about being happy with Christ. If you wanna sing about God, make your own genre, leave rock ‘n’ roll alone!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Why not listen to Rockers that happen to be Christian? Like Nick Cave is an excellent rocker / story teller, and yes, he is a christian, but his music doesn’t suck like Chirstian Rock does.
p.s. This came from an Atheist.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
Hey Dirk, I do listen to all kinds of music, Christian or not…
November 4th, 2007 at 3:03 am
you are absolutely right! about ten years ago in my teenage years, i decided that i would stop listening to secular music, b/c there’s nothing good in it for me. now, i can’t say that mainstream christian music does any good for me, either. i can’t stand christian music stations that are playing the same music they’ve been playing for over a decade!! the christian music industry has sadly followed the trend of marketing (come on, how many more worship songs need to be re-done?!), where singers are recruited for the quality of their voice, but not for their depth or heartfelt lyrics…. so these talented musicians sing someone else’s lyrics. so i’m always on a constant search for some real and authentic music, but sadly, you’ve got to dig and dig to find it.