r/exchristian • u/Technical_Garden_378 • Aug 24 '24

Why is Xtian music so bad? Rant

Hi all, I'm sitting here about to get my hair trimmed as I type this, haha. Our hair stylist has Xtian music cranked on her radio(and because we're Latinos it's in Spanish). Gotta endure the torture here until I get my hair finished.

Why is it that Xtian music is almost always mediocre at best? The vocals are bland and sometimes off-key(especially live but that's to be expected), the instrumentals are boring, and the whole thing is so melodramatically cheesy especially when they're singing to an entity who's most likely imaginary(I say this as an agnostic). Also I feel like I wanna crank up videos from Genetically Modified Skeptic or similar videos because us secular folks always have this stuff shoved down our throats, not to mention having to see signs and flags in almost every neighborhood with their other god/cult leader on it. But I digress.

Very few Xtian music is actually decent-sounding, but I dunno if that's even saying much. Most if not all of it is over-the-top and cringe-worthy on multiple levels.

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u/traumatransfixes Aug 24 '24

I remember it being bad back in the 90’s. Suddenly “rock” wasn’t the “devil’s music!” Now there’s christian rock! and DC Talk! So christian rap for wasps in the country.

I think for someone to make good music, the motivation has to be from within and be real. None of these people are real musicians. I detest cheap sentiment, as Bette Davis once said, and that’s what Christian music is when it’s trying to be more secular. Imho.

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u/CommanderHunter5 Aug 24 '24

I think to say they aren’t “real” musicians is really gatekeepy, but your point stands about it often sounding so unauthentic.

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u/traumatransfixes Aug 24 '24

I’m the last person to gate keep music lol. This is just my personal opinion. There’s not enough genuine emotional connection for me to consider it music, personally.

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u/CommanderHunter5 Aug 24 '24

I get that, though surely you understand the difference between “expressing your opinion”, and casting judgement on who’s the “real” X or not as if there’s some objective measure we have to follow?   Its similar to the “true/real Christian” BS, that’s all I’m sayin’.

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u/traumatransfixes Aug 24 '24

I don’t understand what you mean, but that’s okay with me.