I am a music lover and a musician so I decided to record the Grammy award show and watch it a couple of nights later. Oh my, where in the world has the music gone? Don McLean may have been a bit premature in singing about “the day the music died.”
The show began with old-time Rock n’ Rollers AC/DC and their hit “Highway to Hell”. Isn't there a better song/group to honor an era or to open a show? Flames, horns and gyrations flooded the venue. So no, Virginia, this isn’t a new problem.
Later in the show, Madonna performed a very graphic number glorifying horned creatures, death, excess, death, attacks on organized religion, etc. It looked very demonic to me as I fast forwarded through it. A one point I was encouraged when LL Cool J mentioned that we were “going to church” but alas it was the church of romance and sexuality, eros rather than agape.
We’ve come a long way baby! All this made me think, how many “normal Americans” does the academy represent. I didn’t know Beck had a new album and I’ve never heard of Sam Smith or most of those who were nominated. (Sia, Iggy Azalea?)
This got me thinking, it’s the same thing with movies and television. We are letting those who see things though a completely different set of filters (read none) decide what we watch. I have seen wholesome family and children’s movies make millions and millions of dollars while those “experts” on the coasts push their agendas and behaviors on the unknowingly general public through “critically acclaimed” movies, music, books, television programs that make us blush, or worse, make us unable to look away, even though we know we should (kinda like a train wreck) but are far less than box office successes.
The homosexual agenda is being pushed upon the general public. In America’s heartland (the area between California and New York) the percentage of those who claim the homosexual “lifestyle” is less than 10% , yet it seems that every television program and every Hollywood movie includes a homosexual character or plot twist, even this year’s SuperBowl Pre-Show. This is due to the fact that in those areas where these shows/movies are written/produced that percentage is much higher.
So what do we do? Continue to enjoy good music, wholesome movies, good television shows and reject the “acclaimed” offerings. Money talks friends, surely soon they’ll get the message. Additionally, flood the industries with Christ followers; writers, producers, actors, etc. We can stem the tide of worldliness!
