Another Song Ruined By Jesus…

There are things that can’t be unseen…..

I think I brained my damage.

I had read about how some churches are trying to re-capture the young audience by start hip, cool, rap or rock services.

Some believe this may be causing more harm than good for the church.

We can only hope.

Well….there’s 6 and a half minutes of my life that I will never get back.

When someone says “song ruined by Ke$ha”, it implies that there wasn’t ruin in the first place. Ke$ha and everything that comes forth from her is already in a state of ruin. All these videos done is to make the ruination on the opposite side of the spectrum.

viewing this and greta christina’s article on atheist christmas music gave me an idea. how about a contest to give greta more holiday tunes to choose from? the idea is to take a religious carol such as silent night or joy to the world and give it secular lyrics. i don’t mean a humorous parody or, since the idea is celebration, not polemic (much as i enjoy both), an explicitly atheist remake. i’m envisioning songs everyone can be comfortable with and enjoy singing, so no replacing “jesus” with “dawkins” etc. if you, hemant, or someone else with a platform wants to do this, i think it would be a good thing. well, enough holiday goodwill, back to being bitter and confrontational.

Apparently Jesus does not approve of using autotune. I’m sure it’s in the scriptures somewhere! Oh well.

The first one looks like a private performance of a group of people doing it just for fun. I would be very concerned if this is a professional group. Copying a bad song that was performed by a bad performer is almost poetic, even though it’s all anti-poetic. I’d rather listen to static.

The second one looks like they tried too hard. Making a Jesusified secular song and trying to imitate the looks, and presumably the mannerisms of a popular “secular” performer so much is just tacky. Supposedly Bieber is a Christian, but he isn’t wearing his beliefs on his sleeve, unlike typical conteporary Christian music (CCM) performers, and if you don’t sing about Jesus every song, then that’s not enough for the CCM market. And that’s largely why so much of CCM is bad, often even worse than current popular music.

So why is it that they are pretending to be at a night club? The entertainment, the glasses, the whole setup… what gives? How is that being honest to their beliefs?

Christianity all the awesome of music… and shits on it, be it any genre, from hip hop to rock to pop.

I could really only bear about 1 minute of each video.

The worst I have seen so far, though, was a youtube clip from a danish religious youtube channel “Godmorgen Gud” (Goodmorning God”) where a couple of trying-very-hard-to-be-hip-but-failing-miserably girls sang a “hip-hop” song called “Det står i biblen” (It’s in the bible) standing on a skating ramp and actually tossing hand signs like rappers …. ughh! It was terrible!! And yet fascinating in a horrible kind of way.

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVJJo5BjHw

Well, I seem to be the only one that actually liked it!

ice voice, compelling music – not quite up to “Song of Joy” but all things considered.

Come on people, how many of the rediculous song texts does one agree with? I also liked “Did Jesus have a baby sister?”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Ql4p5ikno

The first one was too embarrasing to watch whole. The second one is no better nor worse than the usual Bieber drivel.

Even so, I’m not planning on forgiving you for this, Hemant ¬¬

I am still astounded that Keisha is known at all, while artists like Janelle Monae still hasn’t quite broken the mainstream.

I had read about how some churches are trying to re-capture the young audience by start hip, cool, rap or rock services.

Starting to? I last went to church in 1976 and they were doing it then. Don’t sweat it, people. It’s not very effective. Too lame to be.

The first christian cover I ever saw, made me so angry. It was several years ago and some Tammy Faye look a like on some christian morning service sang “What A Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong. While singing the old skag replaced “World” with “God”. It still angers me just thinking back on that.

Oh, man, that is wrong on so many levels. I hope I continue to miss it for the rest of my life. “What a Wonderful World” is one of my favorite songs and I’m angered just hearing about it.

I had a similar experience, though. When I was a Christian teenager actually. Some Tammy Faye look alike (ok, so that was before I ever heard of her but still…) did “Bridge Over Troubled Water” on a Billy Graham special which my hero Paul Simon wrote and went on and on about how Jesus was that bridge. I was just screaming at the TV, he’s a Jew, you asshole, making great inroads in my lousy relationship with my mother. Maybe she did me a favor. I never watched Billy Graham again.

I did, however, (I cringe to admit this), listen to Garner Ted Armstrong on the radio weekly for a while. This was when I thought I could talk to god and listen to the casual reply. I’m feeling much better now.

I don’t know either Ke$ha or Justin Bieber though I’ve heard of them, of course. Enough to know I don’t want to listen to either of them any more than I care to waste any time playing either of these videos. I’ll take a pass on both Christian and secular versions.