On Tue 25 Apr, Geoffrey Martin wrote:
> Stuart-
> Do me a favor man. Explain to me how you, yourself, can not
> enjoy a phat song like "God is a DJ" because of its confrontational
> and overly controversial concept. I can't seem to grasp this, so help
> me out a little bit here. If you explained this in the forum, please
> forgive me because I really didn't feel like reading all those
> messages. But I'm just curious about this statement you made. Please
> reply when you get the chance.
Firstly, I think this was a statement I made in retrospect about the
first time I heard "God Is A DJ", which was quietly on a radio, and I
had early apprehensions about how it could have been taken very badly by
people of certain religious persuasions, and I wondered at first whether
it was quietly mocking 'conventional' religious beliefs.
After a couple more listens I think I finally grasped the actual point
of the song, which isn't nearly as controversial as I first thought. And
then of course I saw them play it live in front of a great crowd, and it
all made sense. But I do still think that some (perhaps closed-minded)
religious people will have an adverse reaction to the point of the song.
Erm... that's as straightforward an answer as you get this early in the
morning. :-) Any more queries, please do ask.
On a mostly off-topic note, I was remixing a song a few months ago for a
friend of mine who's in a Christian band. The lyrics were very
ostensibly Christian, and I'm not; I chose to just ignore it and
concentrate on the music, and yet I got criticism from both sides- from
Christians who thought I shouldn't be messing with words I don't believe
in and from non-Christians who thought that I shouldn't be helping to
spread those words in which I don't believe... <sigh>.
Stuart.
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