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[Heddi]

4. Firstly, I find Christian Rock/Punk/Metal/POp to be awful

awfully written, horrible tunes...it's this cloyingly simplistic pap. It's no different than modern "country" music, which I tend to find is only 3 Jesus's per song short of modern religious country. The metal/rock/punk Christian music sounds to me much like Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Creed...and other ridiculously manufactured bands. It's not interesting to me. It's too formulaic and contrived. "My sooooullll for yooooou, like a laaammmmbbb to the slaughterrrrrr>...." That's the type of lyrics 12 year old girls pining for the football star pen in their journals. It's not music that should be taken seriously

Edited to say: Christian music tries too hard. They copy. And they fail. They try to pull from every musical stereotype and mix it together:

Okay, so we need to be patriotic, so let's pull from Country the cowboy boots and guitar painted with the american flag.

BUT we need to be edgy, so give that boy some frosted streaks and eyeliner (but don't make it look too gay)

AND we need to appeal to the masses, so make sure the lead singer is totes hot.

BUT what about the boys? Give that girl a low-cut shirt and push them boobies up.

AND what about the outcasts? QUick...give the drummer a gothic look, including things no goth would ever wear, like a chain wallet and jeans with holes in the knees.

Okay....so we have saccharine lyrics where everything is great, you can overcome temptation by praying, the lead singer looks good after we used the cap on him and gave him distressed frosty locks, and we threw in enough "God Bless The USA" to capture the country crowd.


yeeehawww!

Christian music makes me wish I was deaf