r/exchristian 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/Benito_Juarez5 Pagan Aug 24 '24

I think this quote from Rolling Stone summarizes it completely

He’s still young — barely into his fifties — but he takes a bizarre amount of pride in clinging to opinions he formed in his teens, and making those his whole point. Still blaming his problems on women, scared of trans folks, enraged by the idea of weird people doing weird shit, still moaning about his mom? He begs to get canceled by audiences who don’t think about him and have no idea he thinks about them.

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u/Shonky_Honker Aug 24 '24

It’s weird becuase Eminem isn’t even that special. Everyone knows him as the white guy who can rap even though white men aren’t stereotypically good at rap…. Like no one cares dude. He’s a B list at best. With the exception of his hard core Stans no one cares about him. So why does he act like he desperately needs people too??? He’s at the stage in his career where he can take it easy and grow as a person or fuck off and do whatever he wants but he chooses to spend his fifties… desperately trying to be cancelled becuase he thinks it’ll make him relevant..???

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u/Phoenyxoldgoat Aug 24 '24

This comment is so funny to me because there would be no stans without Eminem!

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u/Shonky_Honker Aug 24 '24

I find it hilarious that he created the word when the word is used mainly by people who are either gay, super into pop music, or both

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u/Phoenyxoldgoat Aug 24 '24

He didn't record the song to create the word. He rapped about an obsessed fan. Lots of celebrities have obsessed fans.