Quote:
Wow, do you EVER have anything positive to say?
I would like to know how you know that Christian artists are only hoping to make the next big hit. Do you know any personally? Do you know them ALL personally? I didn't think so...
Well, let's just look at the numbers. It took hundreds of years to write the 4 or 500 hymns, which are in most main stream Christian hymnals....In the last 30 years, how many thousands have been cranked out. There is no serious thought going into the writing of the notes, and as I said, as long as there is a homogenous mix of the proper catch words and phrases, it gets thrown into the market.
I go to church, on occasion, and I can tell you that trying to sing some of the modern songs do not lend themselves to hymnal type singing.
I'm not trying to trash the thread. I'm simply making an observation. That is the problem, today, which was mentioned in another thread. We can no longer call a spade a spade, without having some kind of label put on us.
Or perhaps there are more people writing them now than there were 100 years ago? Or perhaps the songs are shorter and therefore faster to write? Have you thought of the fact that for many Christian artists, songwriting and recording is their full-time job? So they write more songs faster than the songwriting hobbyists of the 17th Century. Also, some bands (Newsboys comes to mind) have been performing for nearly the entire thirty years you mentioned.
Sorry, but there really isn't a way for you to prove your point without interviewing every single Christian artist out there, and getting them to admit to your theory.
But you are still entitled to your opinion, as we are to ours. But please quit raining on the OP's parade... She didn't do anything that could reasonably offend anybody.
