"Artists uninterested in worship music should go mainstream, elevating their skills to compete. If they are good enough, they can sing about God there."
Couldn't have said it better myself Paul Creasman...in Understanding Evangelical Media, page 121 (always site your sources). Yes, Paul raises an interesting point: why should Christians get to take the easy road by signing under a Christian record label? This is just not fair! Believe you me, in all honesty a good amount of CCM artists would not be making it with their music if they were competing in the mainstream music scene. Christians should be steppin' it up, competing in the mainstream media and showing the world their talents. Doesn't everybody deserve a chance to hear Christians' music? Instead it seems like Christian artists are being stuffed into this itty-bitty little box called "my way or the highway" aka "Contemporary Christian Music." Then their once gigantic dreams of reaching the world with their music has been dwindled to reaching the already-Christians who listen to CCM to feel warm and fuzzy inside (Steve). Good old Paul says it well, "Mainstream society should have all the good music. It ought to have a chance to hear high-quality music crafted by gifted Christian artists. it's not going to tune into today's copycat CCM" (page 121).
So, to all my fellow brother and sister artists out there...make your music...sing your songs and take the noble road. Don't use a Christian label as a marketing tool! Don't conform to the CCM itty-bitty box! Get out there, wow the world with your lyrical sonnets and let em know that, bigolly, Christians Got Talent, too.
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