Image is everything?

[Sword-In-Hand]

Why is the Christian music industry so focused on image? I mean an image like, you're a little overweight, or you look like an everyday person?

I have some friends who are in bands and they are going to be signed here shortly. They recently played at a big event in front of many Christian record labels and such. They won their region, but they got their critique and one of the judges, who is in a big time Christian band, made the comment of..."your guitar player needs to loose some weight."

Now to me, I would think that whether I weighed 300 pounds or more would not effect how I could communicate Christ to people.

Does this just sound weird that Christian music is more concerned with how people look than whether they are expanding the Gospel?

 

[swingnscream]

easy there. Judges can be jerks with unnecessary comments, but I don't think that should portray all of the Christian music scene to you all through one guy.

Actually I don't think it is a big thing in the Christian scene, there are plenty of bands who have guys who aren't your average paper-weight rockstar, thank goodness! I could list a lot of bands to use as an example, but I'd hate to be offensive to anybody in that way, so on the flip side ...there aren't a ton of bands in the Christian scene that I can name that have all skinny paper-weight rockers in em. Don't get me wrong, I certianly know a few of em, but I'm just saying just becuz one or even a few ppl make a deal out of it doesn't mean the whole Christian scene should a get a rep for it. Though I understand in the way that, if a judge person ever said that to one of my friends I'd probably punk em in the face for it or at least make an attempt too do such a thing.

 

[Sword-In-Hand]

i should have clarified better...but it was a panel of people inside two different contests, all of which were affiliated with the Christian music industry and all of them, total of about 16 people said the same things.


dont get me wrong, i love Christian music, all forms of it, rock being my favorite, but i just dont see what looking cool or playing a Gibson instead of an Epiphone has to do with how we can witness through music.

 

[texmex]

I don't think it is just the christian music industry. Our world is just very obsessed with appearance. So ifyou don't look like the media wants you to look you may not get anywhere.

 

[Idicious]

So it's coming into the rock/metal scene as wel..... If it was just pop I'd understand, they sort of have to follow fashion, popular clothing trends to stay popular, but I know a lot of christian and non christian people who play in rock/metal groups that arent on the verge of being underweight. I think it's rediculous and stupid, they need to look at how talented someone is musicly, not their physical apearance.

 

[onajourney87]

They are so focused on it because they are sinners like you and me perhaps.

osm