am i less of a person for liking contemporary christian music?
how's that for a catchy subject heading. yeah baby, this is going to be a thrilling entry.
after peeking into other people's lives like the stalker that i promise i'm not, i've heard good holy people bash contemporary christian music. that used to be me. i promise you i don't regularly listen to k-love, nor do i like any boy-bands, but i do have a special place in my heart for the likes of jennifer knapp and the city on a hill series. these are people that really don't give a flying hoot whether their amazing musical talents will go mostly unnoticed because of the few who have sweared off pop songs for J.C. they write amazing lyrics, or sometimes take beautiful old scriptures or ancient hymns and make them new.

wait, i think i might be a contemporary christian musician. okay, not really. most of the songs i write about jesus and god and co. are dark and death-y, or life-y, but i really can only manage to pull the hope-from-darkness imagery out of this vacuous shed of contrived lyrics waiting to actualize themselves in the next hope-from-darkness song.

if i'm listening to a song and realize that there's no way on this good earth that i'd listen to this song if it wasn't about god, i turn it off. if the word "exalt" is used, i turn it off. if there are more than 5 boys who spike/tip their hair and all of them sing and walk around on stage in swirly choreographs, i turn it off. if someone is giving me a beautiful message about the god that i love and serve, and the music is edgy and beautiful and emotionful (new word!), i listen.
i may be less of a person, but i'm too tired to boycott everything.