Re: Like Dub-Step, Sick Beats, & Electronica...but wanting to keep it Christian, too?
A lot of opinions about this all...very interesting... Anyway, here's a Christian electronic artist named Kye Kye:
[video=youtube;T9F3leelYZY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9F3leelYZY[/video]
Honest Affection is the name of the song if you didn't catch it via the video. Anyway...
To those who were speaking about the different between lyrics and instrumental:
For instrumental music, if you study music in college, you'll learn of the concept of ethos (different than the ethos, pathos, and logos concepts spoken about in psychology, philosophy, and public speaking...). Ethos, in music, is the emotional impact the sound of music can have upon an individual. Hence, or for example, that music has the power to make one sad, happy, angry, inspired...and this study has long been capitalized upon by the media industry, as well as many speakers.
In any case, the extremes of this are that certain music could even sway an inviduals heart toward good or evil. The spiritual applications being the music has the power to heal or injure, corrupt or refine, etc... To some extent, I believe and have seen the effects of this in my own life, and the lives of others.
That being said, once lyrics are added, the distinction between a song's origin, purpose, effects, etc...can become more clearly and easily distinguished. Is the song (via lyrics) a prayer, a battle cry, a scream of hatred or desperation, a reflection on something that happened, a lesson for others... These and a great deal more are all largely defined by song lyrics. Thus, having a song be 'Christian' or 'Secular', meaning to be edifying or deliberately speaking toward Christian lesson, experience, doctrine, or otherwise intended to worship or connect with God vs being a statement or feeling of life, a counteraction to the message of God (life is hopeless, we should die, do whatever you want, and many other messages out there), or otherwise are what categorize the song...
Thus, genres, innately, are not necessarily good or evil, christian or secular (unless intended to be musically under the belief of ethos), but the lyrics and intention are what make them so.
A lot of opinions about this all...very interesting... Anyway, here's a Christian electronic artist named Kye Kye:
[video=youtube;T9F3leelYZY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9F3leelYZY[/video]
Honest Affection is the name of the song if you didn't catch it via the video. Anyway...
To those who were speaking about the different between lyrics and instrumental:
For instrumental music, if you study music in college, you'll learn of the concept of ethos (different than the ethos, pathos, and logos concepts spoken about in psychology, philosophy, and public speaking...). Ethos, in music, is the emotional impact the sound of music can have upon an individual. Hence, or for example, that music has the power to make one sad, happy, angry, inspired...and this study has long been capitalized upon by the media industry, as well as many speakers.
In any case, the extremes of this are that certain music could even sway an inviduals heart toward good or evil. The spiritual applications being the music has the power to heal or injure, corrupt or refine, etc... To some extent, I believe and have seen the effects of this in my own life, and the lives of others.
That being said, once lyrics are added, the distinction between a song's origin, purpose, effects, etc...can become more clearly and easily distinguished. Is the song (via lyrics) a prayer, a battle cry, a scream of hatred or desperation, a reflection on something that happened, a lesson for others... These and a great deal more are all largely defined by song lyrics. Thus, having a song be 'Christian' or 'Secular', meaning to be edifying or deliberately speaking toward Christian lesson, experience, doctrine, or otherwise intended to worship or connect with God vs being a statement or feeling of life, a counteraction to the message of God (life is hopeless, we should die, do whatever you want, and many other messages out there), or otherwise are what categorize the song...
Thus, genres, innately, are not necessarily good or evil, christian or secular (unless intended to be musically under the belief of ethos), but the lyrics and intention are what make them so.
