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April 14, 2003
Stress
Mental note to self: "DON'T READ WORK EMAIL THAT IS LIKELY TO PISS YOU OFF WHEN YOU ARE AT HOME."
Ok now that I got that out of the way. Done with half of my taxes, tonight I need to finish the rest.
The only thing that has been on my mind really of any compelling thought lately is listening to Evanescence's debut cd "Fallen" got me curious as to the nature of their music. More specifically, while searching for lyrics I noticed christianlyrics.net or something had a reference to them. After digging a little deeper, I found that though a couple sites that said they were a Christian rock group. I was impressed.
Well I stumbled across a site that had a letter from Wind-Up Music's CEO (Evanescence's music label). In it he stated the reason for pulling the music from the Christian retail chain because of Evanescence's desire to not be associated with Christian rock. They explained their music was purely secular and meant to entertain.
The only reasons I could think of is that they really wanted to focus on entertaining instead of coming across like they were pushing a religious agenda even though they had religious underpinnings in their music. The band according to the letter is "opposed to promoting or supporting any religious agenda." I hear frequently about people criticizing bands not necessarily because of their musical talent but because of the religious tones. I don't really have anything earth-shattering to say about it except that it's sad that people reject art (as secular as it may be) because immediately they reject an entire set of ideas instead of examining things closer.
Here's a post at blogcritics.org about Evanescence.
Posted by beamz at April 14, 2003 7:07 PM
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I did mine all online this year - earlier today in fact. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Don't have to mail anything.
BTW, how'd you get your 'stock' so high over at blogshares ;)
Posted by: kpaul at April 14, 2003 9:39 PM