April 17, 2009
I’ll say the words that rattle your nerves…
So I’m going to fight back… slowly… possibly and most likely insignificantly against bad music on the weekend 22 by joining their “Hit” Music Crew. What they do with this information and the impact of my opinions are totally up to them, but I’m going to try never-the-less. So what does make a really great song, one that does not make me immediately turn the station (also see/hear the weekend 22’s number one song for the nth week… “Free to Be Me”)? For me it has to do with the lyrics and music, but I guess that’s pretty obvious, I mean what more is there to a song? But quality in both is hard to come by. What is more powerful over the listener, the music or the lyrics?
On the surface, it’s clearly the music because if the song sounds terrible, why would you listen? But have you ever listened to the lyrics and wondered why you were listening? There are plenty of good sounding songs with less than stellar songs (also see my post “Let’s Dance…”). These lyrics effect us, not only the mainstream songs that inspire people to do some pretty sinful, but especially the religiousongs. I’m willing to bet (which was totally inspired by one of those mainstream songs) that lyrics come to most Christians’ minds in situations before scripture does. Is that a bad thing? Maybe and probably Read the rest of this entry »
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