I’m trying to imagine how something can look like something sounds.
Try to come up with an outfit that looks the way a murmuration of birds sounds.
Paint a mural that looks the way your favorite song sounds.
It’s the same bland emptiness that AI art has, because in both cases, the art is being created by something that doesn’t understand.
In the case of Christian rock music, they’ve created something that sounds like rock on the surface, but have taken away everything that makes it what it is.
It’s one of those “you had to be there” kind of things. Christian media is one of those rabbit holes that outsiders often don’t quite grasp at first.
Sounds like AI prompts lets go new genre of art discovered
Yup, phoney
The only good Christian rock band is Five Iron Frenzy and that proves the redemptive power of ska
Collective Soul had some good stuff.
cries in Fireflight
Sobs in RED
What about that one Skillet song that’s good? And I want to say switchfoot?
I hadn’t heard the name switchfoot in decades. I remember they had one good song but it still got creepy in the middle. New way to be human?
My sister used to be a born again Christian and I always liked Jars of Clay better than the other options.
ugh I hate that I really like some Jars of Clay songs musically even though I abhor what they’re singing abiuy
agreed. i just posted above it took me a few albums to figure it out (i wasn’t paying attention to their lyrics, i was makin out with the pastor’s daughter)
used to be
So do you call her unborn again?
Nah, she’s got the triple crown
She converted to Islam?
I think back to those early hillsong albums. All the moshpits and everything.
Did hillsong expect all those people in the mosh pit to be sober?
Christian mosher: *hits incense burner / spills ritual wine*
Almost real.
Skillet?
As someone that grew up in a Christian household and wasn’t allowed to listen to non-Christian music, I listened to a LOT of Skillet as a teenager. It was one of the few bands I could listen to that I actually liked. I also liked DC Talk as a kid.
One of the more tolerable experiences. I didn’t even know that they were a Christian rock band until i was well into my 20’s
And here we are on shitty reddit because we can’t control our violent thoughts.
Christian rock?
i still like pod. lyrics suck, but the sound is still on point.
I’d argue there is (at least) one exception. Neal Morse. Yeah, the lyrics in his solo projects are all “hallelujah” but he really makes some good music.
I have a soft spot for Creed sometimes, but it’s not exactly like they disprove this statement.
Edit: huh, apparently they aren’t a Christian rock band. Could’ve fooled me.
They are.
Creed is an honorary Christian rock band, which is 1000x worse than a normal one.
That’s one of those where they became so mainstream that they don’t want to name it, but they definitely make Christian rock.
Apparently, Higher is about lucid dreaming, but he’s also dreaming of biblical Heaven:
Can you take me higher
To a place where blind men see
(Isaiah 29:18-19)
Can you take me higher
To a place with golden streets
(Revelations 21:21)“My Sacrifice” is about Scott’s struggle with alcoholism, but speaks of a person who gave him love and who he implies he repeatedly reunites with “in their mind.” That’s Jesus bro.
“One Last Breath” drops a capital-H “His grace” referring to God, “With Arms Wide Open” mentions praying, “What If” references Matthew 7:16-17, etc.
It seems quite a few of their songs are “actually” about something else, but totally allegorical to Christian belief. And idk what that makes you other than a Christian rock band.
I thought My Sacrifice was about the double standard of being a supposed Christian rockstar but hanging with Kid Rock and getting bjs from the groupies.
“When you are with me, I’m free. I’m careless, I believe. Above all the others, we’ll fly. This brings tears to my eyes. My sacrifice.”
Scott Stapp the vocalist and lyricist is a Christian and his solo albums are outrightly spiritual in theme.
Something you would have to grow up in the church to understand is how controversial a lot of “Christian bands” actually were in Christian circles. Like the pushback against music with scream vocals was real.
It was a genuine wedge issue because churches used professional audio/lights to attract members with polished modern rock worship music. Music became so intertwined that it led to all non christian music being labeled “secular”.
Bands like Creed didn’t fit either label but generally was considered acceptable listening material in the church circles I grew up in. Most objections were genre based.
Alter Bridge is better
Alter bridge still has the only live album I’ll ever listen to. Wonderful life/watch over you with the parallax orchestra is genuinely a top 5 song. Probably no1 in the top 5.
Jesus why don’t you, turn off the light?
silent planet is the best christian band I’ve ever discovered. they just have incredibly correct takes so idc if they’re religious.
Stryper sounded good and was very popular outside Christian circles. I don’t think most people knew unless they saw them in concert and had a bible tossed at them.
The word “intelligence” means nothing when referencing most “AI”, just like the word Christian means nothing when referencing most “church-goers”.
