Yes. This made me happy to watch. The only time I was close to this reaction was when I was a kid and bought my dad a baseball mitt for is birthday. #sportsgum. #fathersgum.
This is a great article! Very well written.
Just adding my 2 cents here, I was the music director at a CCM radio station for about 5 years, and trust me, the vast majority of the music is bad, bland and un-interesting. But, there are plenty of amazing artists who are Christians, you just have to actively search for it. Just like music in general, it takes some effort and a lot of listening to find the good ones out of the vast sea of crap.
In CCM, though, it was a lot harder because the sample size is a lot smaller. And it seemed the really really good artists would flee the CCM bubble for a number of different reasons, the most common of which was that they wanted to get their music to the people who would actually listen and like it. The CCM demo was not the right audience at all.
The bottom line is, there's a lot of great (or awful) music out there, whether the artist be Christian, Buddhist, agnostic, atheist, Scientologist, left-handed, near-sighted, or even Canadian! Whatever!
Beck's a composer now. This is cool. I'm sure he'll release his own versions, maybe alongside some of the best interpretations and recordings of fans. What and idea!
I want to know why Sir Elton John wasn't included in ANY of this? Did he do something to offend the queen? Is it because he lives in Atlanta now? I'm not British, so maybe I'm missing something?
Based on the performances in those videos, I'll give him a C+. He passes, but doesn't show the same enthusiasm and hard work as some of his classmates. His best work seems to come on group projects. He may be a little distracted by all his extra-curricular activities.
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