We recently had a discussion on Worship The Rock about worship music and the things we don't like about it! It was intended to be a light hearted look at so called "worship music" but ended up being a place to vent frustrations too. I've pulled out 10 of the "shorter" comments for you to browse through.
1) When it's really not worship music at all and titled as such!
2) Major rock style interludes, especially on 'upbeat, contemporary' arrangements of hymns. I picture Animal from Sesame Street doing his drum solos. Just doesn't work.
3) When the same old words and phrases get used over and over.
4) When the same worship songs get "recycled" and recorded by every worship singer and his brother. (When "Here I Am To Worship" (great song!) first came out, I heard four different "artist renderings" in one afternoon on a Christian radio station.)
5) A lack of musical creativity. I tire of playing the same chord progressions over and over and over and over.
6) Time limits! Or that worship is often seen as the "pep rally" before the main event (The sermon).
7) Singers thinking that repetition makes a song more spiritual.
8) The ME centered-ness of some songs that are labeled "worship" songs.
9) Watching instrumentalists 'grimace musically' and seeing vocalists sing with a constipated expression on their face.
10) That everything seems to be in the key of A or E--and out of range for female worship leader voices!
10 Things I Don't Like About Worship Music:
1) When it's really not worship music at all and titled as such!
2) Major rock style interludes, especially on 'upbeat, contemporary' arrangements of hymns. I picture Animal from Sesame Street doing his drum solos. Just doesn't work.
3) When the same old words and phrases get used over and over.
4) When the same worship songs get "recycled" and recorded by every worship singer and his brother. (When "Here I Am To Worship" (great song!) first came out, I heard four different "artist renderings" in one afternoon on a Christian radio station.)
5) A lack of musical creativity. I tire of playing the same chord progressions over and over and over and over.
6) Time limits! Or that worship is often seen as the "pep rally" before the main event (The sermon).
7) Singers thinking that repetition makes a song more spiritual.
8) The ME centered-ness of some songs that are labeled "worship" songs.
9) Watching instrumentalists 'grimace musically' and seeing vocalists sing with a constipated expression on their face.
10) That everything seems to be in the key of A or E--and out of range for female worship leader voices!
Read the full list here.
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