{"id":1558,"date":"2013-03-04T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=1558"},"modified":"2013-03-04T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T19:37:00","slug":"christian-dubstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/03\/04\/christian-dubstep\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Dubstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll file this under &#8220;I&#8217;ll be darned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To start with, I should clarify that no matter the trend, more than likely a Christian somewhere has &#8220;cleaned it up&#8221; and &#8220;Christianized&#8221; it. This especially applies to music.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s so interesting is, as always, the juxtaposition of incongruent elements. Case in point: Matthew Parker. Nice young man, rather nerdy, not exactly what I&#8217;d expect a dubstep musician to look like (I&#8217;m not sure what I expected, but it wasn&#8217;t this fellow) and this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Matthew Parker has gotten a lot of hype ever since he collaborated with Christian T. Dubstep on \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_BsFFrVAqy0\">Life<\/a>\u201d, one of the first and best abortion-step tracks. His verse is profound:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>\u201cLife is big it\u2019s something you don\u2019t play with, but babies are being annihilated \/ It\u2019s called abortion, the American holocaust, we didn\u2019t fight a war but millions of lives are lost\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And then that stanky drop. In addition to having a face that could make any girl rethink their celibacy vow, Parker\u2019s debut album <em>Meet Your Maker<\/em> is filled with deeply spiritual tracks like \u201cChrist is my King\u201d and \u201cHe Died to Give Me Life.\u201d And then there&#8217;s this from his Facebook: \u201cHey. I&#8217;m a guy who makes (rockin&#8217; cool) music. God has given me a life and the talents to make music. He deserves my praise. So I will praise Him with the talents He has given me. In other words, I want to glorify God with my music.\u201d\u00a0 What a guy.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/cWyM3M7gjZA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We also have a Hungarian Christian Dubstepper.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FBJr. - 06 Last Minute\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBU_VokYfxE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can experience a ton more of these eyebrow furrowing wonders after the jump. My thoughts on the subject are best summed up by this reader&#8217;s comment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Christian spin on pop culture is kind of like arriving late at party with a vegetable plater. (sic)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/noisey.vice.com\/blog\/christian-dubstep-is-kind-of-a-big-deal\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;ll file this under &#8220;I&#8217;ll be darned.&#8221; To start with, I should clarify that no matter the trend, more&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-1558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}