1.Do you listen to or purchase any known Christian artists? Who?
Mortification, Vomitorial Corpulence's first album had Christian themes, and sometimes Bruce Springsteen comes off as being Christian themed though I'm not sure if thats intentional or not.
2.This question is designed to show how a non-Christian would react to Faith based lyrics. Some being more obvious than others. Place a ‘0’ in one box for each lyric.
1.“He is, He is the song on my lips. He is, He is the one who makes me live” (with obvious reference to God and the Christian faith).
Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [0]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]
2.“I feel this love, I found this piece. I found out what it means to live. Best of all it comes for free”
(Quite obvious connotation of salvation but no reference to God or Jesus)
Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [0]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]
3.“I left my life somewhere behind me, not that it was life completely”
(not so obvious Christian influence and no reference to God or jesus).
Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [0]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]
3.Would you say that there is an assumption that Christian artists provide “fluffy” music, in the sense that the quality of music is generally not as good as more secular artists?
To some extent. The mainstream Christian artists do seem to come off that way so at a glance I'd understand that. By mainstream Christian I mean of course Christian artists who are popular by standards of Christian bands so stuff like Relient K and Superchic.
4.Feel free to write any of your own or other possible assumption that are made over music.
I try not to assume too much.
(If you have time, the next section involves checking out tracks found at myspace.com/boydoodie. This is because my dissertation is alongside a practical project album.)
5. Ignoring your own bias to certain genres, would you say that any of the tracks could have a place in the mainstream market and would you say the album as whole could still be appreciated by non-Christians? Why?
No, the 90s died.
6. Rate each of these elements of this track out of 10. 10 being very high, 1 being very low. For instance, if you think the lyrics sucked, put a 1 in the ‘lyrical content’ box.
Lyrical content [1]
Musicianship [3]
Overall sound of the track (production) [7]
Melody and musical structure [3 and 5]
Cover art work and packaging [I don't really care]
Creativity of the music [2]
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