Rant Time

Now, before I say anything in this post,I want to establish the fact that it's about the music, not the religion. Carrying on...



This is one of my major beefs with DA (for those of you who don't know, the Deffocation Association). The music. Now I can't say that everyone in the school listens to the exact same music, because I haven't met and searched the iPods of everyone in the school. But, I think I can make the assumption that a large majority of the school listens to: Christian rock. Now, here's the problem. I don't mind a couple bands, some of their music has even found its way onto my iPod, as Aunt Wendy and Uncle Pat can attest to. But the fact of the matter is that 60 percent of the entire christian music industry is bands covering popular hymns and songs. This is like if a little more than half of the bands you know did nothing but play Beatles and Zeppelin covers. If that was the case, then the music industry as we know it would be no more. Yet somehow, in this place and others like it, people purchase entire CDs without a single original song on 'em.



For instance, at the handball game-the rule is that the only music coming out of the speakers is christian. Again, not my preference, but not a problem. But actually, now that I think about it, that was the problem. Because, as you may know, there are three genres of that music. Basic rock, rap, and traditional. And apparently the sound guy/DJ wasn't a fan of Amazing Grace or anything like it, so we got a mixture of rap and half-rock for the whole evening. I heard the song "Indescribable" in 3 different forms. A decent song, in its original format, but I don't really like rap of any kind, let alone the kind with lyrics intended to be sung by a worship team.



And then again, in "Art Basics", the most useless class ever dreamed of. Instead of the usual Jack Johnson, which I always welcome with open ears, she decided to pop in a mix CD, with all our favorite songs we've heard 200 times. "Now sung by different people with slightly different pitches!!"





-Will





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