new post.

i am about to change this blogger skin because it has been the same for over a year, and it's driving me nuts! i like change; change is good.

so i got a wikipedia account because there were anberlin articles so out of date that it was outrageously crazy, and i decided to perhaps fix them myself, which wasn't bad. it's kind of pathetic that i can actually write articles about bands.

so then, i was looking at anberlin's wiki page and was reading it, about their christian orientation and them as a "christian band." is seems kind of stereotypical, you know? the way people put music into genres and say, "this is indie, this is alternative, this is heavy metal..." why can't it just be music, and let us all enjoy what is does for all of us?

especially with "christian rock." some people hear the word and scrunch their noses in distaste. don't you wish people wouldn't give it that name, because it's kind of excluding, if you know what i mean. it sounds like, "oh, you're not a christian, you can't listen to this music." i don't really listen to christian music all that often, in fact. i listen to music performed by christians. idk if you catch my drift...

as people, songwriters write about who they are and who they've influenced. and as christians, their faith is naturally going to come across in their music. it's not necessarily praising Jesus Christ, because, i mean, we have normal lives too. but once again, it comes across. like flyleaf. they aren't trying to write about their Savior, but as believers and writing about who they are, they will sing about it. and relient k. and anberlin. and ivoryline. and hawk nelson.

i love what knate young said about his faith. he said with interviewers that he doesn't mind being called a christian band because he is a christian, that he is a follower of Jesus Christ and doesn't understand why bands get confused with that question. he says he gets the question, "is anberlin a christian band?" and he replies, "yeah, we are -- as humans."