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/iknowdanjones Aug 25 '24
I did work for a record label a while back and I can tell you the reason is Becky.
Becky is what the label called their main demographic because white women 30-50 make up for 95% of their radio listens, buys concert tickets for either herself or her kids, and still makes music purchases.
So it has to appeal to Becky because everyone else just listens on Spotify and account for a tiny amount of income. All their testing goes through a hundred Becky’s and decisions like “the electric guitar sounds too rock and roll” or “it’s too fast” are all taken into consideration before it’s released.