Great Debate: Has Christian Music Grown Stale?

This article is about, oh, seven years late. I've been listening to Christian Music since around 1999, starting with Jars of Clay when their song "Flood" hit mainstream radio and a lot of people didn't know it was about God. I'm going to say this: Michael Fraiman: Listening to Christian music for not even a year will make it seem like you think it is. One thing that you won't understand by visiting a Best Buy for Christian music is the variety of music available. The simple fact is: if best buy REALLY carried a good Christian section, it would be at least an entire length of an aisle, and split into separate genres. The music you're talking about is either praise or power praise. Also known as Praise and Worship. Many bands have done those P&W albums lately, and many have songs like that. That's perfectly fine. However, if you think that's all there is, you need to head back to the store, and check out any of the following bands/artists: The Afters, Anberlin, Mae, Mainstay, Newsboys, Relient K, Group 1 Crew, Future of Forestry, The Tide, Mark Schultz, TobyMac, Skillet, The Listening. You'll find that christian music reaches far beyond what you're thinking it does. I'd give you a rundown of the style of each of the artists I've listed, but I think it's a pretty broad spectrum of musical stylings represented there. Heck, if you want a song on current events, Mark Schultz wrote a song called "Letters from War" that will touch your heart. He's an artist that anyone could get into, and would have made a great mother's day gift. Anyway, just thought I'd share a bit (I don't only listen to Christian music, but it is the area that most of my music collection falls).

I say so long as they omit Jesus from the lyrics, it's all good. Nothing agaist the J-dog, but it can be tedious to hear an album where every song is a direct letter to someone so specific. It's a similar case if a band chronically references somebody named Sarah in every song, although no disrespect to Thin Lizzy.

It's interesting to note that an opinion that is a so-called attack on God merits hardly a whimper, but that the previous so-called attack on the Beatles resulted in a ton of controversy. Guess the Beatles are bigger than Jesus...

I was listening to Christian music in the mid-1980s, most notably Undercover and Steve Taylor, both of whom issued some very thoughtful music (though Undercover's late 80s records show more thought and depth than their early work). And a good case can be made that Amy Grant's work breaks the mold, as does the songwriting of U2.

The best Christian music, however, can be found in the Psalms. I admire O-Joe Taylor's (Undercover) work, but he hasn't anything to equal Psalm 22 yet.

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