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I started watching this You-tuber yesterday. He is a Christian and covers various topics on media. Yesterday I just stumbled on a video series on "What is wrong with Christian movies", and today I stumbled on this video.
I've only watched part of it, but so far he is talking about the fear of taking risks many pieces of art including contemporary ones took risks to carve out new niches and explore new territory. He uses the Queen song, Bohemian Rhapsody as an example that was somewhat controversial etc. And how Christian artists tend to stick to safe formulas that are designed to appeal to their fan base to make the easy bucks.
My perspective is somewhat similar but a little different. I attended a Southern Baptist parochial school from the 1978 to 1985. By the early 80s I was introduced to Christian rock and pop music. By and large the music seemed like a second rate imitation of various secular bands. It seemed to me at the time, that this was a kind of a safe niche ; since, parents often didn't enforce the rock band on overtly Christian bands they had a kind of captive audience. It kind of reminded of the Low fat craze that was sweeping the nation at the time, but in this case you sacrificed musical talent rather than flavor, and rather than having less calories got something that was overtly Christian to the point of blatant pandering.
I've only watched part of it, but so far he is talking about the fear of taking risks many pieces of art including contemporary ones took risks to carve out new niches and explore new territory. He uses the Queen song, Bohemian Rhapsody as an example that was somewhat controversial etc. And how Christian artists tend to stick to safe formulas that are designed to appeal to their fan base to make the easy bucks.
My perspective is somewhat similar but a little different. I attended a Southern Baptist parochial school from the 1978 to 1985. By the early 80s I was introduced to Christian rock and pop music. By and large the music seemed like a second rate imitation of various secular bands. It seemed to me at the time, that this was a kind of a safe niche ; since, parents often didn't enforce the rock band on overtly Christian bands they had a kind of captive audience. It kind of reminded of the Low fat craze that was sweeping the nation at the time, but in this case you sacrificed musical talent rather than flavor, and rather than having less calories got something that was overtly Christian to the point of blatant pandering.