Many prominent rockers have described the essence of rock & roll as sex and rebellion. Rock’s “god” is the god of this world, and it is spiritual insanity to use this music in the worship of the God whose characteristics are the exact opposite of rock’s. When David Byrne of Talking Heads inducted the androgynous David Bowie into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1996, he described rock & roll as follows: “When David Bowie came along, well, rock and roll needed a shot in the arm and when I first saw him it was a shock, and yet it was very familiar. ... And like all rock and roll, it was tasteless, it was glamorous, it was PERVERSE, it was fun, it was CRASS, it was SEXY, it was CONFUSING. ... IT WAS ABOUT SEX AND DRUGS, it was about combining literature with rock and roll, with art, with anything you could name. It was about SEX as an idea, and SEX as a reality, and SEX as a liberating force. It was about REBELLION, it was about REBELLION as a cliché, it was REBELLION as an idea. It was about REBELLION as a billboard, as an advertisement. ... It was about SEXUAL politics, SEXUAL theater” (rockhall.com). (For more quotes such as this see What Every Christian Should Know about Rock Music, available from Way of Life in print and free eBook editions.) (Friday Church News Notes, February 26, 2016, www.wayoflife.org, [email protected], 866-295-4143) Comments are closed.
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