Something To Think About Especially In Today's Economy & (Gospel) Music Industry

[tko05]

If life imitates art then with the crap we have been getting via the "music industry" the past several years no wonder our society is jacked up. The value of meaningful lyrics has been lost to mind-numbing ring-tone based hooks birthed from ego-tripping riffs. The new standard is there is no standard. Without a standard value diminishes. Standards are based on vision but without vision the people perish.

Question is now who will be the new standard bearers in music?

Someone commented above that the art in music had diminished. The ART of anything is it's beauty and the beauty is in the fulfillment of a thing's purpose. The purpose of music was never to "get paid" but it was to affect the spirit of people to the glory of God. Telling and inspired truth with or without lyrics from ones core being. Now we mostly perform the motions haphazardly from a core of selfish inferiority where the "truth" never surfaces unless the money is right (though it never seems to be right enough). When people perform knowing their purpose the art/beauty reveals (de-masks) itself because when the student is ready the teacher appears.

This is excellent!! To piggy back on this. The bible says that you cannot serve both God and money. When you don't know the purpose of something you're bound to abuse it.

I LOVE threads like this!!

[fretai03]

I'm not disagreeing with anyone. I'm merely reflecting on my past which led me to find LGM in the first place.

Before I got here I wasn't interested in knowing the ins & and outs of the industry or respecting our crafts as musicians. I was ignorant & didn't care for such things.

BUT! That ignorance wasn't intentional, in my case, I didn't have the knowledge or the know-how to "look for" and improve my musical knowledge. But once I reached a point where I did become curious & wanted to know more, things changed.

[fLaT-fIfTh]

I'm not disagreeing with anyone. I'm merely reflecting on my past which led me to find LGM in the first place.

Before I got here I wasn't interested in knowing the ins & and outs of the industry or respecting our crafts as musicians. I was ignorant & didn't care for such things.

BUT! That ignorance wasn't intentional, in my case, I didn't have the knowledge or the know-how to "look for" and improve my musical knowledge. But once I reached a point where I did become curious & wanted to know more, things changed.

You were blinded by no fault of your own. The industry is built as a light so bright that it blinds us from the truth. That is its mechanism for self-preservation. If everyone realized what was truly taking place, there would be nobody left to fall for the tricks of the trade.
Now that you have come into the knowledge of truth, teach someone else...

God bless