Music in the LC

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Originally Posted by Freedom

Furthermore, everything from the outside is rejected out of hand. It's shocking to think that the 'newest' LC songs are at least stylistically similar to the folk music of 40-50 years ago. Yet they don't give a second thought to the time warp they are stuck in. I'm not saying that everything has to be modern, but the fact that they reject modern is what makes it all so questionable.

The tendency to reject the modern is not as uncommon as you might think. Christians as a whole have tended to view the current ways, trends, and music as questionable, at a minimum, all the way up to satanic. But the ways trends, and music that they are steeped in is about one generation old — what the previous generation was busy denouncing as satanic.

In that regard, the LC is not that different from other Christians. But the lag within mainstream Christianity has been shortening while it is lengthening within the LC. I would not declare that there is nothing new within the LC, but their writers of the late 60s through about mid-70s have gone mostly silent while there is almost no one taking up the torch for today. Virtually all of the putting of Psalms to music occurred between 1973 and 1977. During that time, the old supplement doubled in size. But very little since. 40 years without water.

So the group that claims new, fresh, and living is singing what their parents sang (and from before that as well). They are languishing. Nothing is springing from within them that is new. Talk about "tradition." They only sing what the dead have written. And they chastise others for having anything new.

If you want to play a garden party
I wish you lots of luck
But if memories were all I sang
I'd rather drive a truck