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| From | Not Lame <popmusic@notlame.com> |
| Subject | Gawd rawk, more |
| Date | Fri, 09 Jan 2004 06:55:08 -0700 |
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> (Another professional note: over the years, I've had a handful of
>> customers who will not buy anything from Not Lame simply because of the fact
>> we carry a CCM artist and I've had this discussion w/ them, too trying to
>> understand the whole revulsion......btw, it's almost impossible to weed out
>> 5,000 releases for 'offending' mentions of God or Jesus)
>
> I don't think you're being quite fair here in expressing what it is we
> object to. Speaking for myself, it's not God or Jesus I'm repulsed by, any
> more than I'm repulsed by Allah, Buddha or any other form of the universal
> life force or whatever you want to call it. I'm comfortable with my own
> spirituality and I know what works for and with me. What repulses me are
> the people -- and this includes some but certainly nowhere near all CCM
> artists -- who consider themselves "right" and everyone else who doesn't
> believe in exactly the same things "wrong." I don't like that in
> spirituality, I don't like that in politics, I don't like that in sports
> (hey, I like the Sox as much as the next guy who lives half a mile from
> Fenway, but I don't believe the Yankees are a scourge that must be
> eliminated from this earth), I don't like that in music (as anyone who has
> suffered through my rants whenever the "rap isn't music" canard comes up),
> I just don't like that.
YOU, sir, were not born in Boston as I was! Yankees suck. ;-) (sorry,
mates, I know I'm outnumbered here in this department...it's a breeding
thing w/ this issue for lifers from Boston). ;-)
Seriously, what I was saying above was that I just mention that an artist is
CCM artist simply out of respect for those who DO find such lyrical content
irksome, offensive, etc(anotherwords, want to know if an artist IS a
Christian and sings about it), they are aware to turn off that road of
possibility.
I don't get it, but I'm not going to *not* help empower anyone who comes to
the NL web site w/ the info that they find most relevant to their own
tastes, if I can help it. Does that make sense?
>
> Although to be honest, my dislike of the likes of Stephen Curtis Chapman
> simply boils down to the fact that I find the music itself positively
> ghastly.
Whoa!! agreed! as you mentioned earlier, the FORMULA that WAY WAY too many
CCM artists reflexively use is, well, it's disturbing, as a fan of God Rawk.
But compared to, say, 1998 and 2004, the quality of music that comes from
the CCM sector---whoa, boy----HUGELY better!
Peace,
Bruce @ Not Lame
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