{"id":998,"date":"2013-01-11T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T04:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=998"},"modified":"2013-01-11T04:04:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T04:04:31","slug":"on-christians-ruining-classic-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/01\/11\/on-christians-ruining-classic-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"On Christians ruining classic songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why they do it, but for some reason, Christians seem to enjoy violating copyright law, stealing melodies, and switching musical lyrics. Case in point:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/youtu.be\/cOkcg8sIVWY<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pretty sure the writer didn&#8217;t contact Cohen and ask his permission to lift the melody, rhyme scheme, and a number of lyrics to &#8220;christianize&#8221; this classic. It&#8217;s painful to listen to this. I&#8217;ve never been able to figure out why people who claim to serve the entity that invented creativity can&#8217;t seem to come up with decent music and must resort to converting other people&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n<p>Another case in point:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amazing Grace Peaceful Easy Feeling\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zlEGuPj03Ok?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>I&#8217;m sure if I dug around a bit, I&#8217;d find more examples. However, I&#8217;ve tortured my ears enough for one day. I&#8217;m heading to Youtube to listen to the brilliant original version of these songs. Perhaps then I&#8217;ll dismount my high horse and settle down a bit.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know why they do it, but for some reason, Christians seem to enjoy violating copyright law, stealing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-opinion","tag-my-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","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=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}