Religious people - Which music is pure?

[Alex K]

Do elaborate if you feel like it, I'm fascinated by that kind of "scene" stuff.

Well I would be lying if I said I was a big part of the scene but I have been involved in a small corner.

The Christian music scene is geared toward soccer moms who support Christian radio so in a sense they influence, somewhat, what is played. There are some people who truly "try" to be good in the sense of their overall worldview but it's plagued by the same shit as the secular music scene. Lots of sex, drugs and rock n roll. Lol. The differing views on God are much like you would see Ina forum from believing to atheist. Hell Newsboys founder George Perdiki just came out as an atheist earlier this year.

The CCM formula had its genesis with label heads learning how to sell to the adult contemporary home. Worship music became the staple more than a decade ago. It's all geared to be hip enough for a soccer mom to think its edgy.  You never see bands trying to be adult contemporary...but the artists on top of the mainstream charts are people like Justin Timberlake, Katy Perry, Maroon 5 etc. and these are the artists that CCM mimics because it's what makes money. They push artists into this back stream of what feels like old, stale music because it's safe. It's all about the dollar. As an aside KP is one of the few if not only artist that started off Christian, failed, crossed over and made it huge. Joy Williams had a semi-successful run with The Civil Wars but that bottomed out.

Hrhr, I only know the Newsboys from a God's not Dead review Was that guy in it?

So there seem to be different strands of praise music. On the one hand the close harmony singing our god is an awesome god with some band accompaniment, and on the other hand the Christian Justin Timberlake knock offs? I suppose the latter is worse because it is intentionally neutered music