To me, CCM is American popular music that is stripped of anything that would inspire emotion or movement. Not that weird to me, except that the genre is bland beyond belief. Like the music that the Pod People would have made in the remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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Plenty here with which to wash hogs. As others noted, this stuff has been going on for a long time. I heard a 1950s recording of a (supposed) ex-rock’n’roller raving about "The beat! The Beat! It’s all about THE BEAT!!" in a tirade against sinful music.
The guy in this video is so typical of what passes for “conservatism.” He begins with something he likes (kids singing “Jesus Loves Me”) and declares that holy. When he encounters something he doesn’t like (that awful hip-hop) he finds ways it differs from holy music and declares that unholy. Stress 1 and 3–Good! Stress 2 and 4–Bad! It doesn’t matter what Bach may have done because it’s not about music at all.It’s just cherrypicking evidence to support his prejudices.
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sounds like phrenology.
One of the areas is, in fact labeled moral, and contains “hope”, “spirituality” etc as subsections (or perhaps even “sublobes”). Like many things with a richly developed literature, phrenology is bunk.
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Wait, what?
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Oh, yeah? I’ll listen to all the ragtime I want and there’s nothing anybody can do about it.
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Maybe this?
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CCM makes vanilla look spicy.
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He’s saying that non-white people have some magical ability to hypnotize pure, innocent white people with their evil, pagan evil syncopated rhythms. Also, he’s denying that racism is a real problem.
Basically…
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Thank you, Xtian musician, for prompting me to find these.
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I’ve heard more logical and intelligent takes from a brain-dead stoat.
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That’s the thing… religious music doesn’t have to suck. At all. Gospel, traditional Christian choral music, shape note singing…
Can all be gorgeous, wonderful music.
But modern Christian music that just attempts to map a religious message onto modern pop forms just… miss the point, I think. They’re trying to do both jobs at once (being religious music and being pop music) and failing at both…
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Euclidean rhythms are fun though.
Not at all. I love the most pious, devotional dub and nyahbingi jazz, Sufi qawalli music, the early polyphony of the maestres of Notre Dame, Robert Hood’s minimal techno infused with Gospel. I wonder if in the totality of musica I listen to more of it isn’t inspired by religion than not? Not by frequency of my listen, but by time and place.
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Today I learned that Scott Joplin was an incarceration of Satan. ~ Century old music such as the Maple Leaf Rag, the Entertainer and introspective pieces like the Magnetic Rag and Solace are pathways to your doom.
Let’s do some Covid-19 style contact tracing. In the 1973 movie The Sting, SEVEN of Scott Joplin’s works are prominent in the sound track.
The movie was a smash hit and even was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress. Just another example of Satan using Hollywood to ensnare your immortal souls.
If any actors could play Satan, Robert Redford and Paul Newman are certainly among the top of the list. Accck!! ALL the food Paul Newman has manufactured and sold is eating away at your eternal soul!
There have been visionaries trying to warn you, but you wouldn’t listen:
You are beyond the reach of Thoughts and Prayers
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I’ll be damned.
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That face at 2:10, tho.
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Dear Christian musician, please syncopate on deez.
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Reggae and dub would doubtless makes his empty head explode.
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I couldn’t listen to this crap for more than a minute. Decided to listen to some nice Miles Davis instead. Definitely not the devil.
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