Why Christian Cover Songs Are So Cringe
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2023
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today we're taking a look at some tiktoks where christians make covers of popular songs, primarily on tiktok. i gotta get the keywords in guys thanks for understanding. paint the town red by doja cat has been going viral for its controversial-ness in the lyrics and music video, especially with christians on tiktok, but for different reasons than most ppl are talking about doja for. whatever.
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NOOOO THEY GOT GABI!!
I Shall Not
Get that bag Gabby 😈
i love how you give me so much New hate towards people, it's honestly a talent waking other people up better ánd more hateful than before. great vid as always p.s. we are rooting for you.
You should’ve talked more about white people and Christians tendency to steal art, and then demonize the original creators, and how trying to convert people to your religion is hard-core weird and gives colonist vibes
So often Christian art is so concerned with being Christian it forgets to be art.
SOMEONE SAID IT! As a Christian artist I am often so bored with contemporary Christian music/art. Because it’s so overly focused on pushing the gospel (which isnt a bad thing) that it completely forgets to have any artistic merit (which IS a bad thing!!)
This is so true! Reminds me of an ex friend of mine who at one point seriously considered stop listening to any music that doesn’t praise god like why are you so boring??? Why everything you do has to center Jesus
👏👏👏 yesssss. slapping a "jesus sticker" on it.... just doesn't cut it. I know they mean wel but like...... we can do better.
@@djoctobeat5204 Oh how the mighty have fallen. Religion for most of human history was the most prevalent source of creativity and art across the world. Now an exceptionally vocal minority of Christians don't understand metaphors or subtlety.
Yes, it's sad that those Christians just completely "ruin" the comuinity, they put us under a bad light for other religions
Hozier's song was played on christian radio stations for a while until they realized the song was criticizing the church
A lot of religious people just have 0 media literacy skills from being taught not to form their own opinions on things, I guess.
that is definitely not true
Omg same on the Montana Christian radio 😂
@@abigailgerlock8328someone debunked you try again
FR I USUALLY CAN'T STAND ANY CHRISTIAN OR COUNTRY MUSIC(bc of how unoriginal and nails on a chalkboard over used and boring to the point I'd rather rip my ear canals our then be forced to listen. I mean this from a musical standpoint btw, if you like those genres good on you.) BUT HE MAKES SUCH BANGERS‼‼🔥 Also it was funny asf to watch no one else get what it meant💀
When unholy dropped and they sang and the grammies my church had a 1 hour and 30 minute "sermon"(rant) just about how demonic they are and how kim should die and that kim and sam are going tom the lowest pits of hell WITHOUT EVER KNOWING THE MEANING OF THE SONG😭😭⁉ They just get angry and whine like a baby to mislead others into doing the same before bothering to properly educate themselves..
The Kill Bill one really hits the nail in the head because of the way they’re perfectly okay with the murder part, because they _know_ it’s not actually something that the singer did and is just an expression of anger and frustration (even though jealousy is already kind of sinful in itself), but as soon as the word “hell” is mentioned apparently that’s not the case anymore? It’s no longer a metaphor and everything is taken literally???
They act like the devil will come and rip of their cross necklace lol
@@Laurasophie236 he actually could... AND GIRL WE HAVE THE SAME PROFILE!!!!! 😭
@@T.S_130 SAME PFP LMAO
@@CreativelyUninspired596 YEAH😭
The thing about "Unholy" is that they're LITERALLY calling the scenario unholy. They're not like, saying it's good. Like 'duh, it's bad, the devil's work, let's move on'
I mean, an argument could be made that Unholy is normalizing that behavior, which isn't exactly great, but you're not wrong that the song doesn't frame it as a good thing.
@@reaganharder1480but just as with poems and books, people need to overthink the content they're consuming.
@@reaganharder1480 I love how you managed to contradict yourself in one sentence
it’s giving adult kidz bop 😩
omg this is the best comment
like why is it so true tho 🤣
🤪🤪🤪
TRUE
Adultz bop
Fr
them losing their minds when the song says “devil”
Also each of their covers saying “devil” at least three times:
It's in a different context tho
@sixty._7921 true I just thought it was a bit ironic because in most cases that was the word that pushed them to make the songs
@@Cal-fb7weIt's not Satan's name or hell that is the problem in the situation. It's the lyrics, the meaning behind it, and the intentions behind it.
@@madix3333dude its a joke.
LMFAO it’s context
The problem is they often target lgbtq people like hozier and lil nas x , who talk about their experiences
ouugh poor fellers
Is this satire or genuine 😭
@@bumblebee3488 wait is it satire I’m stupid
ppl thought the hozier one is good because mentions of god and church
even though they dodged the sound waves of him actually talking about how the irish suffered from evangelists
@@CheeseThePurpleDragon I'm gonna say it is both true and not, considering they'll go after any song known in the category of 'Unholy'
One thing I've also noticed is that a LOT of these covers are primarily of songs made by LGBTQ and/or minority people. It's never secular music made by white or straight people but these ones are labeled 'unholy' or 'evil' in a way that definitely feels coded.
Yes I had the exact same thought.
Yea, find it kinda funny there’s none of these for Poor Man’s Poison
@@suzanneclark7706 Like,ya'll. If you REALLY want to ruin a song do Hell's Comin' With Me (and this one is totally off topic) Take Me to Church. THEY'RE RIGHT THERE.
If your faith can be so easily dismantled by a song, Your faith is very fragile.
Well then leave songs as they are and we wouldn't have a problem
@@L0cal_Librarianpretty sure they’re on Gabi’s side
@@L0cal_Librarianits called a "cover" for a reason people do covers and change the lyrcis everytime but when Christians wanna do their on little cover with their own things its a problem even though everyone is doing it. If you dont like the cover i dont get why its so hard not to listen to it like trust me you can find original songs easier then covers and such like just listen to the original dont listen to something you know your gonna get triggered by.
Why not ?@@Remyatta
But when people do covers they don't change the lyrics do they ? I don't like listening to christian covers anyways but my fyp brings it up. @@NT-gi7lb
You don’t have to relate to music to enjoy it. It’s like if someone said, “I really like Olivia Rodrigo’s music, but I’m in a happy healthy relationship, so I’m going to rewrite ‘good 4 u’ so I can sing it.” I think that adds to the cringe, just how pointless it is??
The idea of rewriting a song about unhealthy relationships is so weird because, we have songs about healthy relationships. That’s approximately 50% of the love/relationship song category
but we can't enjoy most secular music. that's why people rewrite it.
@@borahaeist3215 most secular music? Like what-? I get that you can't listen to rappers or many pop girls... But ya'll still have A LOT MORE. Like don't simmer people like Doja Cat to that Paint the Town Red song or Don't generalize SZA to Kill Bill. They have plenty more songs that don't mention anything religious, but yes many of the songs may involve "sinful acts" but just like what gabi says, skip it. If you want mainstream and popular artists, maybe listen to people like Taylor Swift, Melanie Martinez, Olivia Rodrigo, The Weeknd, plenty of their music can maybe fit into what you like. OR MAYBE LISTEN TO COUNTRY, SOUL, AND JAZZ MUSIC-
GOOD FOR YOU I'M GLAD YOU'RE HAPPY AND HEALTHY
LIKE ME
GOSH I'M SO GLAD I CAN DO THAT 😊
Dude I listen to Joji all the fucking time, (hell I’m going to his concert next week) never once have I been in a relationship, much less had a bad breakup, and let’s be fr now that’s the subject matter for like 80% of his music. That doesn’t mean I can’t still get so much enjoyment out of it! I can appreciate the quality of the lyrics, vocals, production, and instrumentation that come together to convey a feeling, even if I personally haven’t felt it before. Not everything needs to be catered to YOUR specific life experience for you to find value in it, in fact, I think it’s important to consume art that conveys all sorts of experiences separate from your own. That’s part of how we create understanding between one another as people, by finding ways to see the world from different perspectives we didn’t consider before.
GIRL "Christ Spice" sennnnnnttttttt me! Quality content. Thank you for your service.
Dude this is also on RUclips shorts and the RUclips short comments were just- scary💀👻 they were like "this is so good" "pure talent!" "Thais is so much better" I almost died when I saw those comments😭
exactly! i think i saw one of those videos and the comments were literally just “yes! so relatable! i absolutely hate it when i do this, i feel so dang bad :(“ or like you said “yess! preach! idk why everyone is hating?”
and people said 2016 was the cringe era...no...it's worse now.
@@aporue5893 PEOPLE SAID THAT???? bro 2016 was the peak of modern society
As someone who's mom listens to a lot of Christian radio, Ive been hearing terrible religious versions of secular songs for literal decades, and Ive had NO ONE to talk to about it with. I have felt like I was losing my mind. Thank you for making me feel seen.
I can deny that Christian secular version of songs I like are really bad and I’ve never liked them. And I’m a private Christian as well who loves and listen to a lot of different music from around the world and Take me to church is song that I love to
@@Superbatmanbro same to both of yall tbh
Ok
As someone who has been listening to Christian songs on the radio since childhood, singers back then used to be more passionate about music and God nowadays you can obviously tell which songs are made for profit and which songs are not
@@cranburrey In the 80's-90's the Christian labels got into bed with he major labels. Now they're either distributed by outright owned by the majors.
Fr imagine if I as a jewish girl would start crying and throwing up when ever a Christmas song came up cuz I don't celebrate it😭
This is the best example I’ve seen
Fun fact: A lot of modern Christmas songs were written by Jewish people lol
@@thewonderlander1372 irony strikes hardest when the punchline is the funniest
You should remix them to make them Jewish 😮
@@thewonderlander1372 lol
As a Christian myself i don't get why they're so concerned about changing these "unholy" songs and turning them into "gospel".
Instead of taking your sweet time to change these words and serve us cringe why not just write your own song instead.....
you can tell they want those follower count to skyrocket... all while not making an effort on producing said project
this deadass reminds me of that South Park episode where eric cartman creates a christian rock band after seeing all the money those bands make lmao. he didn’t even make orginal songs but instead take existing songs and replacing some words with jesus and they sold like hotcakes. bro’s band eventually failed after his true colors shined and literally got smitef by god himself lmao
or the HENEFFER HOPEZ episode ( THAT is legendary ) :P
it was specifically christan rock hard :p
WAIT REALLY WHAT EPISODE IS IT I NEED TO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW
@@akemi_0 DUDE i bet you 20 bucks we will go platinum
THAT REALITY CHECK *had me dying*
@@natschannel366 Christian rock hard
It’s like the great Hank Hill said.
“You’re not making Christianity better; you’re making rock and roll worse.”
WOW!!!! BEST AND MOST UNDERRATED COMMENT EVER!!!!
aww, it's in the video and everything she beat you to it
21:56
Watching that show rn lololol
yes thank you
In my opinion, the covers can actually cause harm. I think the title was “God Must Hate Me,” but there was a song where the singer talked about her insecurities and religious trauma, and Christians got mad over it and made covers. They completely ignored the religious trauma, and instead focused on the title
Yeah. They’re supposed to love everyone, right? Or something like that I don’t know. So why are they dismissing trauma? Trauma that real people have to endure, not your God that can’t even be proven real. Besides he’s already perfect according to most Christians, so he’s not going to get his feelings hurt over a few non-believers.
That’s such a good song tho. I’m still Christian, I believe in God, I don’t go to church currently and am still dealing with the role religion plays in my life. The song resonates with me, I think it’s so insensitive for people to just dismiss it when it has so much meaning
I LOVE THIS SONG BUT MY MOM (who is christian) WOULD GET SO MAD WHEN I WOULD TURN IT ON
Or another song would be, take me to church, which a lot of Christians thought to be a Christian song as it had the words amen and church in it. After then finding out it's about religious trauma and homophobia from the church immediately turning around and saying it's "blasphemy" despite the fact it's a song about religious trauma and then making covers of it, completely eradicating the purpose of the song
@@LuckythecatZ- Or Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me which is about Televangelists Greed yet somehow Christians believe its a song about Affirming Jesus lol They really just interpret art on a very superficial level.
We should be calling this what it is - plagiarism. They simply take the music another artist created and sell it off as their own by putting their own lyrics to it.
If it wasn't for the fact that they are singing about religion, it would be easy to call them out.
THESE REMIXES ARE BARS🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥
NOW THEY NEEDA GET BEHIND THEM🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
lolll
I specifically hate when they “remix” songs that are criticisms of the clear harm Christianity has had on people. Like you can’t say gay people are wrong for feeling rejected/demonized by the church when that’s what the religion (generally speaking) calls for. It’s a total bastardization of the artist and the art to look at songs like montero and take me to church & go “but it’s not praising Jesus therefore I can’t relate !! 😢” that’s the WHOLE POINT
Also they’re not even straight up saying “fuck god, fuck Jesus, etc.” (Which they totally could!) They’re criticizing the actions of people and institutions. I’m sure there are lots of Christian’s who can relate to the criticisms of the church they’re singing about (I was one of them when I was a Christian) and claiming that you can’t listen to a song that criticizes a religious institution that you’re related to - even vaguely - is, I don’t know, NOT good
YES SPEAK YOUR TRUTH
like montero is a criticism on Christianity's belief on LGBTQ+ people, and I dont actually know what take me to church is about. and the fact that there are christian covers being made only strengthens the points of the songs
It’s so weird too because there’s been talking in the Catholic Church (like I’m talking headquarters, in the Vatican) about allowing priests to preside over same sex marriages.
Like there’s a chance that demonising and rejecting and discriminating against LGBTQ+ people will actually no longer be part of the religion, but I doubt that’ll stop these people from continuing to be bigots
Meh
@@chart6454now but yourself in their shoes, if you got rejected for being yourself it wouldn’t be that meh
There's something to be said about how songs like Call me by your name were created out of a genuine religious based trauma response. "You say I will go to hell because of being who I am, because of something I can't control, so I just did what you told me to, why are you upset??"He is literally responding to the hate he was taught he deserved from the church, it's not just "he he he, ha ha, lapdancing the devil funny"
I wish I could retweet this comment or post it somewhere for more people to see
Agreed. There's also something to be said about creativity and being open-minded (i.e. not hating lgbt people).
Totally! If they did what Gabbie is suggesting and respected the source material to actually critical think on the message they could learn how negative the erasure of the original meaning in these works are.
It's because they literally don't see the message of "I have been harmed by what Christians said". Because these types of Christians don't think they can do anything wrong.
"We can't traumatise a young gay black man, because trauma is an act of harm, and why, we were only spreading the word of Jesus! Lil Nas is a sinner, not really a human with a rich inner existence. You're an NPC. I can't harm you, because you're just a walking talking manifestation of sin for me to monologue at to feel better about myself!"
It's very much the Victim/Attacker mentality. People often think of themselves as one or the other: the Victim, or the Assailant.
Christians like this are obsessed with being persecuted. They cannot cause harm. They can only BE harmed.
They are BLIND to the message Lil Nas was saying, because that would destroy their entire moral foundation of the self.
@@CiCodiCadno I'm a gay black male myself and I personally don't mind christain covers. In my opinion unless their inciting violence in their covers they don't bother me. I do agree with some of your points though.
I grew up in the Pentecostal church, worked in a non denominational church for 5 years (specifically as a musician on the "worship" team), but currently participate in a bible study with my JW friends, and I couldn't agree more with everything you said. The more people judge, the more they refuse to get over their own narratives, thus, the more they push people away from God. Well said.
It's selling music to the most susceptable audience willing to part with their money: fans of televangelism.
As a christian, I can, with my full chest, say these covers make me cringe too. The amount of ignorance some have is astounding as well.
@@BlackLivesMatter1414 the same way whatever makes you cringe, cringe.
Is praying also cringe?
commenting here just incase a fight broke out
@@urmomeatmysoap3843Love to the Christian fight too💀
@@WinniePooh33 lmao nice
What bothers me as a Christian woman with a vast majority of Christian books and movies is how we write atheist and other religions in our media. We typically write them as hateful, angry, depressed people with no chance to redeem themselves.
I agree
That is, after all, what the Bible says non-believers are like
Lol as a believer I'm still depressed as the day is long 😅 I hate how stigmatized being depressed is in most religions
as an atheist, thats why i hate christian books and movies
I can't understand how people can see any of the mainstream religions as "religions of love" when they're nothing more than cults hating on outsiders, there's no logic on what's actually good and bad
I love watching Gabi's videos about music cause you can tell she's really passionate and knowledgeable about it. It's always cool to hear a musician's thoughts on music trends!
i dont know how but you explain things in literally the best way possible. i am constantly doing the "OMG THATS WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY" look at the screen, because you say things that i want to say but don't know how to say
Gabi just glossed over her hilarious idea of turning Christian songs into secular music. Somebody get on this asap
I immediately started thinking of hymns I used to sing in the LDS church hahahah
The problem is christian songs mostly suck
Did this all the time! There's the whole "Jesus is my boyfriend" sub-genre of Christian music that's so easy to turn into regular love songs.
@@kylesmith5633 they'd also probably find a way to turn that into how they're so "persecuted" and that it's offensive
@@mina6mina when you’ve never been persecuted being made fun of feels like it. They don’t get the whole structural aspect
As an Irish person, the Take Me To Church cover really frustrated me. The immense pain and abuse Irish people suffered at the hands of the Catholic Church cannot be understated and its effects are still very much felt today. An ugly scar runs through my country which Hozier shone a light on, only to be “cleansed” but these ignorant assholes
I tried searching up the relationship between the Catholic Church and Irish people that you mentioned, but I'm unable to find anything concrete.
Can you educate me on this matter?
I understand totally, thank you for your worthy comment friend. God is great, religiosity is shite!
@@rerorero6493Aside from the fact that the partition of Northern Ireland and Ireland is related to animosity between Catholics and Protestants (and has a lot to do with the willingness to accept being part of Great Britain), there is also, as an example, the issues of unwed mothers and their infants being abused, on a large scale. There are other issues too, like rape, sexual assault, and children buried in mass graves, but it doesn't take much digging to find this information. It's very surface.
Its also about gay ppl
@@rachelk4805 Oh wow, thankyou for your response.
I'm going to try and search more about this topic, I just gave a quick 5 minute glance on Google the first time so, gonna try harder now lol. Thanks again!
As far as I’m concerned, them doing this only makes them and their beliefs look worse. Also, the ones using auto tune use too much and the ones without are showing they can’t sing.
As a Christian,
"Brother, euhhhh!!!!"
If only they gave the same energy of never saying Devil to actual slurs😔
Ikr 😔
Fr 😔
I love when they get personally offended at me for "taking the lords name in vain".
Like, homie, it's my eternal soul, if I'm cool with risking True Death, then that's my deal. Irrelevant to you.
Also then they call me slurs and get surprised when it annoys me lol
but some christians don't use slurs? its all down to a person individually lets stop restricting the label of a christian now
@@Jane-oz7pp um now imagine you were using the god of islams name? use it if its not such a big deal to you using the name of a god you dont even serve use the buddhists, hindus,seekists why only christians?
We sang a Christian version of All Star every week at church and then I thought shrek stole it
💀
How did the lyrics goooo? I gotta know
@@ekboobooboobie it was like “hey now you’re an all star, get your game on, get saved”
And “the years start comin and they don’t stop comin, so trust in the lord and hell keep your ball rolling”
It was so fun not gonna lie
Lmfao
@@AnnaRenee this is a story so innocent and wholesome that it transcends cringe, i love it
Dogma was actually a great religious movie. Kevin Smith was raised catholic and wrote it during his own crisis of faith to ask some of the questions he had about the religion.
From other comments you've made I think that your audience is young but your content is very mature. I think you have universal appeal. I am 54 and this is the best commentary I've ever heard about art needing to be settled. and also the supplies to Christianity that it comes through better when it's subtle.
I’ve sung songs with “Hell” and “Devil” in them before, I’m a Christian. Shiver me Timbers..is Satan gonna pop out of my mirror and eat my soul? No!
Lmfao exactly 😂
@@arcaneidk lol 🤣
Ngl I’m scared of saying those words😭😭😭😭
@@jade9596 I don’t say them on a regular basis, and sometimes say heck instead of hell, but seriously, don’t worry about. 👐
Secular music sweetie
As a Christian, I have never cringed so hard in my life. They massacred Ice Spice's bars😭😭😭
Yes, like what is this 😭😭
Lmaooo That’s Christ Spice
@@Howaboutyes11LMFAOOO HELPP
We need to ban fellow Christians from covering mainstream music ASAP. 😭😭😭
Same
Holy crap. the entire time I was watching I was thinking about the Hank Hill quote and you included it at the end. Well done!
8:07 I just realized they're saying "jail now, now" 😭 like what 💀
The cringe part is that they shamelessly embrace their censorship. Mutilating someones art and then acting like everyone should thank you for it is some disgusting sense of entitlement.
THIS!!!!! 😭
I mean not many people act like they should thank them. If they did that would be horrible but most people are just singing it another way and just making a parody like others have done.
@@commentsnowman Well, not literally like everyone should thank them but they pose as if it was common sense to make these "corrections" and the lyrics of these songs were objectively wrong before and now they made it better. They give off an extremely condescending vibe and try to pass it off as normal behaviour. They're not making a parody, they're trying to censor - there is no comic effect involved.
It is not entitlement to take something you find horrible and making it better for millions of other people who share your opinion. You are only mad because of your bias against christians but I bet you cheer on when it is the other side who does it.
@@spawnofthedead4556 That is exactly what entitlement is in this case. This is not about some piece of technology where you can objectively improve the design in the engineering sense.
This is art. Reinterpreting the whole piece in a christian way would be different (still cringe though). But "correcting" art to "make it better" has some seriously fascist vibes.
If you find it so horrible, why don't you leave it as is and let it go? Maybe the artist just didn't intend this song to be for you. In this age of streaming, nobody forces you to listen to this music. This sentiment that you have a right that any piece of popular art should please you and for that reason should align with your ideology is extremely arrogant. In many ways the purpose of art is to challenge peoples views.
The fact that there are a couple of others among a few billion that share questionable views doesn't make them acceptable.
No, I would not cheer on someone unchristianing a christian song - that would be fucked up. I listen to Skillet every once in a while. I like the sound, I might not necessarily agree with all of their lyrics but I'm able to let it go.
I think, you might just share that same sense of entitlement and are mad that I call you out.
It’s crazy how they saw three black artist make songs, stole the art, and then started demonizing the creators, that’s British museum shit
Maybe I'm taking this too seriously but I thought about that too! I have some Christian family and its weird when people seem to only talk about black artists (ofc I know that's not entirely the case but in my experience, rap and other music by black artists seems to be hated on a little more)
Maybe I'm taking this too seriously but I thought about that too! I have some Christian family and its weird when people seem to only talk about black artists (ofc I know that's not entirely the case but in my experience, rap and other music by black artists seems to be hated on a little more)
@@slayyyyyyy595 it’s not taking things to serious to acknowledge racism, in fact, it’s racism to not want to acknowledge racism. I find it extremely weird that Gabby left out the massive piece of nuance in the way white people have treated people of color, especially when it comes to stealing art and demonizing it’s original creators.
@@christinewarden3450Tbf, I am old enough to remember entire CDs of this kind of crap and they were changing Britney Spears and NSync. Rap is the most popular category of music right now, and some of the biggest creators are black. But if you dig around you can definitely find them changing white artist's music too.
White Christians have beem doing that to Black music forever: they've declared jazz, blues and rock as satanic.
Omgg (I'm a Brazillian btw) I was litetally just thinking of some great religious Brazilians songs but I wasnt expecting the actually mention it any of then lol thanks for that! Snksks I was actually thinkinga bout a really popuplar pop singer called Iza (an abusolute queen and icon honestelly) she is makes a lot of "ass shaking" music but also a lot of some really profund songs whit religions mentions, if you're lookibg for sometining more dancy I think is defenelly a greath option to look up to!
everything on the internet has become a "what about me?" convention its so ridiculous. don't like the song and think its 'evil'? skip it! that song is not for you and THATS OKAY!
edit: just reached 20:50 and she talks about this oops lol
gabi talking about this is fixing my religious trauma like spackle fixing holes in the wall
i love ur username lol
@@its.annmariaI just realized the name and...same
so real tbh
I'm so sorry for your religious trauma, its so sad that it happens so often now a days as people push things onto other people.
YESSSSS!!
@@its.annmaria
it's hilarious they don't say "devil" in the normal songs but have no problem saying "devil" in the Christian remix
I guess it’s only a problem when you address religious trauma or use the devil as a metaphor-
Actually, it's more of not using the word 'devil' in a certain context like "she a devil" or "i'm making deals with the devil", because believe it or not, words are actually very powerful so saying those kind of things even unironically may affect your mindset, hence the remixes. But they're just...cringe. They should just make a normal Christian pop song that people would love, instead of these...atrocities.
My favorite is when oeople talk about the song Unholy, like yes they show the devil because THAT IS YHE OPPOSITE OF HOLY. Like you your brain
Girl- your analysis is SPOT ON!
Christians: "Being gay is evil and you're going to hell"
Gay artist: Depicts himself going to hell
Christians: 😨
Fr
SERIOUSLY!! Like r/woooosh
LMAO (im christian btw)
real
as a christian, im dont believe that being gay is evil. even if you're gay you dont necessarily go to hell. as long as you believe that Jesus is your lord in savior you've got a spot in heaven.
edit; 13 likessss
ITS A SIGN FROM MOTHER
What I despise about the take me to church cover is that take me to church is about CHRISTIAN RELIGIOUS TRAUMA
“‘Take Me to Church’ is essentially about sex,” Hozier said in an interview with New York Magazine in March 2014, adding that “it’s not an attack on faith.”
@@HH-mr3iqI do remember that, when explaining the song, he did clarify he was being critical about the church in some verses.
@@HH-mr3iq who cares? Religion is brainrot
DUH
thats exactly what I was thinking!
I love the way you word stuff bc when I first saw the title I was irked bc I’m a Christian, but after watching your video, you were very respectful and only mad at the trend, but not Christianity and I love how you explain that. I also love how you bring up Christian music you like as well.
I need gabi to keep me in touch with pop culture. I’m always so behind. She explains it all so concisely.
The Take Me to Church cover really irked me. I always interpreted as a song about religious trauma and it holds meaning for communities harmed by the church, it just feels so disrespectful and ignorant to make a cover like that.
I personally also hold it very highly as someone with religious trauma and who is constantly around people who fully believe I deserve to burn for being queer. It’s very frustrating.
I was thinking the same thing. Taking a song that's about a dude getting killed for being gay by a bunch of christians and turning it into some worship bullshit is another level of ignorance
Ok-
Hozier, who wrote that song, highlights the harm done in the name of religion, because the Catholic Church did irreparable harm to his country.
@@Thehouseoffail That’s exactly what I’m talking about, it’s harmed that community in specific and other communities also harmed by the church also are able to relate to it in a place of pain.
@@izzoakana709yeah...
As a Christian, all I have to say is sorry. I swear we’re not all like this ✋😭
agreed
Don't worry buddy, you get a lollipop for not being a miserable human being, keep being you, even us non-believers tend to respect the christians that actually don't force everything to be religious.
@@Nothingtoseehereanyway awe thank you, and as a Christian, I don’t think religions should be forced upon non-believers. Because what I learned, is God gave us free will to decide whether we want to follow him or not. So thank you for understanding lol 🥰
Frr
You're all good! Anybody with a brain knows y'all are very far from all being like this.
If i had a nickel for every time I've seen a raid shadow legends ad I'd have close to $50
As a Christian....everything about this is just YEEESSSS!!!! Not allowing people to think for themselves is where we get the terms such as "frozen chosen" or why religion is dying because people don't want to subscribe to the ideas that (at least Christianity) is like how this video portrays because it absolutely IS NOT. Love this!
saying this as a Christian myself, why do we make everything about ourselves ☠️ and why are there some Christians SO entitled they have the need to force their religion on someone else?
ong man
Fr
SO REAL
you have all my respect.
Exactly the bible teachs humble works. WE SHOULD BE HUMBLE AND RESPECT PEOPLE.
A VERY popular christian song is Soldier, Poet, King by the Oh Hellos. It's not obvious outwardly, but when you think about it, yeah, it is pretty clear what it means. It's a very well loved song that's wriggled its way into multiple trends and fandoms, and I think it's a really nice example of stuff like this done well.
YEEEEES THATS MY FAVORITE MUSIIIC
Wait it is, holy shit
probably one of the best christian songs i have ever heard, a bit sad that its not really known on churches though. atleast on my country
Casually learning it’s Christian.
Yes. I first discovered the song from the animation meme, then I learned it was about Jesus.
Video editing is dope. This was a good production.
Thank you for speaking about this problem. I can assure everybody that music is not always to be taken literally and I vibe on a lot of “devilish” songs. ❤❤
Soldier, Poet, King is SUCH a BOP of a christian song. They dont need to do all theatrics with other existing songs that dont even worship the devil. Like be so serious.
THAT'S A CHRISTIAN SONG!!! I A CHRISTIAN AND DIDN'T KNOW
The Oh Hello’s are VERY christian, but its always shown really poetically. They even recorded a christmas carol, and while I’m very much jewish and have a dislike of Christmas, its so beautiful to listen to
THATS A CHRISTIAN SONG?! DAMN I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE
All of The Oh Hellos music is Christan. The siblings who write and sing the music are practising Christians (I think). Their album, Dear Wormwood, is actually about the Screwtape Letters!
Yeah. It got really popular because of DnD and TTRPG, but it is originally a Christian song. I’m not a Christian myself but I can still enjoy it through the lens of it being about a DnD party and their backstories.
Finally, a Raid ad by Gabi. You're officially a RUclipsr now, we're all proud of you
not an official commentary channel until the ad reads all sound the same
I audibly groaned at that part ☺
Covering "Plastic Love" was just a stepping stone to greatness
KUDOS GABIIII
It's all downhill from here.
And this whole time I thought Sza was saying she'd rather be in JAIL than alone
I love how the ad in the middle of the video was for a christian movie
Rewriting take me to church to make it, “more Christian,” is so gross. He wrote it about the harm that the Catholic Church did to Ireland, and to minority groups there like the LGBTQ+ community.
Did he see the video?
The LGBT is harming people.
Yikes
OH MY GOD! I need to listen to take me to church. I got the message ALL WRONG!
@@BlackLivesMatter1414 Um... mass persecution
As a Jewish person getting proselytized to CONSTANTLY by people and media, it’s downright frustrating to have even the things that aren’t overtly Christian be warped into more ways to make EVERYTHING about Christianity.
Also it needs to be said that a lot of these songs are by queer folks, or have queer themes. That’s not a coincidence.
The Take Me To Church ‘remix’ makes my blood boil. That’s so disrespectful and disgusting. The actual meaning of the song is so steeped in the deep harm from the forced conversion into Catholicism in Irish history. It also made others with religious trauma feel seen and heard. So so so ridiculously disrespectful to have done that.
ur getting hella lippy
@@khara4577 back in the corner ike
Couldn't have said is better myself, bravo 👏
@@khara4577hush, they're talking about something serious and here you are, bein silly
Also don't forget about the part where they have the nerve to get mad when secular media uses christian imagery in ways that are not explicitly christian.... like you can't shove your religion down everyone's throat for centuries to the point that when anyone says "god", assuming they the person they speak to subscribes to no gods. they immediately think of the christian deity, not Allah, Not Thanatos, Not Izanagi and then expect it not to influence people and how they interact with the world around them, like art.... whether they like it or not, Christianity is as much a part of pop culture as star wars at this point, because when something is everywhere that's just what happens
Actually, can confirm that singing the devils name will summon him but you need to do it at a three way crossroads at midnight. It’s very specific. Also you need to sing it in a slightly altered 4/4 time, 12 bar blues signature or he appears without his pitchfork and then he gets cranky.
Another rec I have is half-alive! Their music is so good I didn’t even realize it was Christian
As a Catholic I really really agree with your points. Let Christian music be Christian and let other genres be what they want to be. On a side note I also hate it when artists cover a song and change up the lyrics even a little. It takes away the original meaning of the song.
Check out the theme tune to Outlander. It goes on about an English nurse falling through time and getting it on with sexy Scotsmen. The original tune is the Skye Boat Song - it's about the young Prince Charles of Scotland having to be secretly transported to the Isle of Skye, then on to France, so he couldn't be MURDERED by the English crown (in order to gain control of yet another country, which they did, as I'm sure you know). So changing the lyrics to be about some English woman getting her rocks off over a disenfranchised group is... a typically American choice.
My friend's great uncle wrote that song. Now middle aged white women around the world get thirsty when it plays. Fuck's sake.
agreed, though i do assume/hope you'd be okay with leaving out slurs/offensive words.
@@jaxorisit1447 Yes. If the lyrics haven’t aged well then I find it okay. And there is also always the case of an explicit and clean version for songs but they don’t always totally change the meaning
Changing the lyrics can be good sometimes. Like changing pronouns to make a love song more gay is always allowed and good 👍
i don't know, unless they change the song to the opposite meaning of the original, i think changing the lyrics in a cover is fine, since usually its to change the meaning of the song to fit closer to what the person was going for
Speaking as a Christian, a thing about modern Christians that has always annoyed me is our weird need to water down secular media and make it “Christian”. Like if you don’t like the message it’s sharing, simply don’t interact with it; no one is forcing you to listen to Doja Cat. Revamping and sterilizing existing media to make it Jesus friendly just makes you look pretentious and self-congratulating, like “Look how perfect and clever I am, turning this sinful piece of media into worship!! I’m such a good Christian!!”
AGREED
Thank you for this. I may not be religious (grew up Catholic/Ukrainian Orthodox but got away from that stuff), and while I know most Christians are decent people who see certain media and may say "No, I don't like that, it's not for me" before moving on with their lives, the crazy outliers make the rest look bad. It's not clever or cute to "make this un-Christian song their own," it's just cringey.
I don't even care if someone takes a popular song and reinterprets it about Jesus so they can enjoy the tune with lyrics they relate to. It reminds me of what Kidz Bop does. But the smug self-satisfaction these people get when they do it and post it just creeps me out. Like you said, they really do seem to think it makes them holier-than-thou.
They can't abide the fact that not everything caters to them. That not everyone thinks like them. Anything existing that doesn't explicitly service them is immediately a threat.
So same with this Video. Why do people care if someone makes a tiktok about something u cant relate to.
@@yuzuru.u It's not that we care that they make it - look at the one example where her version was clearly a labor of love for both her religious views AND the artist. That's great. The problem is what these videos say about the people making them. They make these videos out of hate. They make these videos out of a pathological need to assimilate everything. They can't stand that something exists that doesn't fit their world view, be it music, culture, or people's personal beliefs.
If you're Christian, that's great. You're free to believe whatever you want, to celebrate your beliefs however you want. But leave the rest of us out of it. People are sick to death of Christians trying to force their views on everyone else, and these kinds of videos, and the motives behind them, are reflective of that attempt to force everyone into being like them.
The worst part about it is if you listen to this you never get to hear the original (good)singer
Never heard of this channel before, but BOY do I love her commentary and way of speaking.❤
as a christian i really liked this video. it didn’t seem overly critical, but you shared your opinions openly. i totally agree that we need more good original christian music
Agreed. I was half expecting this video to just be dogging on Christianity/ Western religion but it felt honest and respectful, separating cringy artists from the whole body of Christian people and their music
the thing that irked me was the take me to church cover. the song about religious trauma and the hate MANY BUT NOT ALL christians mask as love (once again not saying thats you just saying this is often how christans are if you arent raised by a truely kind hearted church or dont learn kind ways)
and hoizer specifically wrote the song to express how religion hurt his country
I believe that's mainly because for one Gabi doesn't really seem like the type of person to do that and because she said in the beginning that she grew up in a Christian and Catholic environment and plus she's also a music artist so she sees this through multiple lenses
I agree, I’m a Christian and I found this video quite entertaining. There needs to be good Christian music for once and not cringey covers of pre existing non religious music.
@@Retronomicon18 fr
I once wrote an essay about the problem with Christian media. It’s not just that the message is being spoon fed to the audience but also because they’re literally preaching to the choir.
The only people watching Christian movies are already Christian because they always make the antagonist a “nonbeliever”, and it’s just not relatable to anyone else
Edit: I do want to say I appreciate how respectful she is towards Christians in this, and how they don’t even notice because it’s the culture they grew up in. I was raised Christian so the most secular comedy I was exposed to was veggietales 🙃
Thanks for this I know our religion is a bit pushy on the "believe in god to be saved" but we all know we gotta respect those boundries
You sound full of yourself lmao. Have you ever stopped and considered those movies are aimed at them and are not trying to change your stance.
That’s why Prince of Egypt is the best Christian movie.
If it was a regular Christian movie I doubt it would have portrayed the Pharaoh and his relationship with Moses with such nuance.
@@totallybeatable9238 It's redundant and really overplayed not giving new ideas or developing new plots. Which is not relatable at all to anyone since we are always changing as a people every day. It's very much, "I'm holier than thou art." And sadly it's been stuck like that for far to long.
everyone preaches to their own choir. christians are the only ppl who get dragged for it
I haven’t even made it 15 seconds in and I just had to comment on the painting. If that’s not commentary on modern art idk what is 😂😂😂genius!!
yk "hell as well" by we three? the song thats about one of the band members own experience with being sexually molested by his pastor? i was absent one day at school and the next day my two christian friends came up to me and told me they made a "christian version" of the song because it had the word hell in the title.... they arent my friends anymore.
If simply hearing the word “devil” makes you terrified, you give “the devil” SO MUCH power over you. “The devil” thrives on fear, and “God” thrives on love. Being afraid of a word is literally working for the devil.
Well said, can be said about a lot of things the church “fears” (see: hates)
THE POPE HATES HIM!!! SEE HOW THIS SIMPLE ACT TURNS YOU INTO A SAINT IN JUST 2 STEPS!!!
On the wise words of Hermione Granger herself: “Fear of the name only increases fear of the thing itself”
Both don't exist. Relax
imagine if someone turned a Christian song into a rap or an “evil” song 💀💀
i second the notion
I'd love to hear it
Someone do this and tag me 😂
Nah bro I wanna do it now
@@GenderfaePlushie SAME
Forcing the message of god is gonna make sure that people are more likely to feel repelled by it rather than encurrage by it.
now imagine if they found mama by mcr.
"father, we won't go to hell" instead of "mama, we all go to hell" probably
Me and my friends use to play the Christian version of Pumped Up Kicks and die laughing at "you better run, better run faster than the devil"
OHHHHHHHHHHH magod
“This music is satanic!”
90% of metal:
Why is that a thing 😭 that song is about a school shooting my god 💀
This made me laugh right now 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
My Christian mom hates these Christian versions and says that they’re sinning by stealing the artist’s original work. She hates the whole concept of never listening to non-Christian music and actually wants me to put on “my” music so she can relate to what I’m listening to. She oftentimes loves the music I listen to.
My mom was like this with me too growing up, she didn’t know what the hell was going on but she danced 😂.
Your mom is not a true christian but just another modern day christian who is atheist but still goes to church
your mom is a fucking godsend
This is exactly why i left it's the same damn thing over and over again and unfortunately i ended up in a very toxic church.
I don't hate or resent Christians or anyone of that religion or whatever you belive in but, that experience pretty much scared me off from coming back.
I don't hate Christians, but I believe in education, something Christians tend to lack because they base their lives on blind faith instead of evidence and reasoning.
What I find absolutely hilarious is that I got 2 ads for apps or anything related to Christianity while watching this video
This reminds me of when I went to look for snacks in my aunts cabinet and she had a bottle of witchhazel but she taped over the word witch and instead put the word "angel" and I almost lost it.
Bro 💀
That is next level.
That's an unhealthy level of religion
@doseofcyanide3014 oh yeah no. Like it is technically a disorder but it's not in the DSM5 officially I don't think. Religious OCD is when your compulsive thoughts center around themes of religion.
That’s so funny actually 😭😭
As someone who was forced to be a Christian and has some religious trauma, Christians need to understand that not everyone wants to be a Christian and needs to stop forcing their religion onto everything and understand the concept as “freedom of religion.”
As a christian for most of my life (since I was five), I agree. My cousins grew up and started believing that my uncle (I love my uncle and he is very nice but...)was forcing them to be a christian because he refused to call them by there new pronouns. I have not seen my cousins for a few years and I might night never see them again. I myself would have been happy to call them by any pronouns. (it was a VERY complicated situation but that is what basically happened)
Yeah, I find it very sad. Just the other day I was attacked by a Christian in the comment section of a RUclips post that had nothing to do with Christianity. They wrote a long paragraph about Jesus and made it about their religion when it was originally a heartfelt comment explaining how they can’t believe how happy they have been for the past 15 years. It had nothing to do with religion but some Christians can’t stop bringing it up. (Those types of) Christians make it their entire personality.
Then some other people thought I was mocking their religion or something. If they actually read the Christian’s comments they would see that they were assuming that being an Atheist means being an angry depressed person who’s in denial.
@@HungryWardenyes like im Muslim but im not about to force people I will believe in what I believe you can do the same
@@amarhiiii2793 cool!
And that they, as the sheep, need to let Jesus call his flock. NOT THE FUCKING SHEEP! Let Jesus tell me to be Christian ffs, some Karen won't get me on board...
as a christian, theyre really annoying
that was an amazing raid shadow legends ad gabi thank you for that
21:57 "Can't you see you're not making Christianity better, you're just making Rock & Roll worst." I'm using that line. There are so many times I needed that line.
rightttt a slogan for the ages
agreed
Literally my first thought.
Leave rock n roll alone.
Me n you are mortal but rock n roll will never di3!!!!!!!!
The one good Christian rock band i know is Skillet, and even then they have some incredibly mediocre and bad songs (Cough Cough, The entire album of Unleashed), and i just can't with John Cooper (their frontman).
bro i love skillet!!!!@@Literally1862
The line “Follow his word or you will be dead” kinda just sounds like when you’re a kid trying to make up a song on the spot.
Soundcloud rapper.
You won't die if you don't follow him but you will parish to hell after death. Your life is meaningless without him.
@madix3333
You remind me of a child trying to convince their friend that santa is real and that you won't get presents if your naughty.
@@thiccookiesI mean.. it’s true 🤷♀️ I think the person writing the song is trying to get at the fact that the Bible says that without the lord and savior and God in your life, then you will never have eternal life. Madix is truthful when they say that dying is equivalent to ethereal death in hell (used figuratively in this song lyric).
@miss.yolanda you completely missed my point lmfao
Now you sound like the friend of the kid saying "well actually it's true, and Santa is real😔"
I'm an atheist, this literally means nothing to me
20:31 at that point it’s not a cover, it’s a smother
I’m playing skyward sword rn and the beedle audio clips at the end made me jump
im a buddhist, so i cant say much, but i'm a singer/songwriter and the autotune on the first girls video is so obvious it almost hurts to listen to 😭
So what if she used autotune??????? irl she sound EXACTLY like Ariana grande she can even do ariana’s riff’s and everyone calls her ariana grande soooo you better be quite gurlyyyyy
@@janapinderova777 you better go back to pre-k grammar classes “gUrLYyY”
@@c1d3r-t4bby-p4ws bro you’re literally a child and you said you’re a singer?!?? Lying isn’t good hun
@@c1d3r-t4bby-p4ws AND you’re also a furry… like wth you rlly need to get your life together gurllllll
@@janapinderova777 I don't know whether to laugh or cry
also, "The boy's a liar", That lyric is conveying a friend to say "Hey, that dude is toxic, you should leave him." the fact that someone thought it was "sin" music is funny XD
Yeah, these are the same people who say that divorce “ruins” a marriage😂😂
@@Scaryspider555 bruh a divorce is the result *of* a ruined marriage, what are they talking about? 😂😂😂
Gabi thank you for your videos - you're awesome at explaining this stuff ! And you're an amazing singer :D
Thanks for the Windwaker sounds, BTW
Its crazy that these people hear “deal with the devil” and instead of “oh, thats a popular idiom to describe making a distasteful compromise in the hopes the good will outweigh the bad” they instantly think a celebrity is talking about joining the illuminati
Seems like being surrounded by on-the-nose sermons and blatant propaganda their whole life made them incapable of understanding any subtlety.
That would also explain why so many 'christian' movies and other media are as terrible as they are, there's just no room for complex characters or ideas.
the illuminati isn’t even a thing anymore 💀, it was actually a good secret society, unfortunately it disbanded 300 centuries ago, idk how ppl STILL believe that it’s real (at this time) when there’s no evidence.
hand signs / provocative performances ≠ devil worship
Speaking as metalhead, I definitely agree that most representations of the devil in music are not meant to be taken literally.
Some bands use demonic imagery for no other reason than for shock value. Slayer, for instance, has a lot of over the top lyrics about Satanism, hell, and the devil, yet the guy singing those lyrics (Tom Araya) is actually Christian. They pretty much only wrote that stuff to take advantage of the Satanic panic of the 80’s and try to elevate their status.
Most of the actual “Satanic” metal I’ve come across could more accurately be described as “anti-theistic.” Think Deicide; their music always came across to me more as anti-God than pro-Satan. Some also use Satan for metaphorical reasons, such as Behemoth (their 2014 album “The Satanist” is probably the best example I can think of for using Satanism as a metaphor).
The reason Satan comes up in art and music is, for the most part, because he is a stand in for a lot of powerful themes and messaging. Metal happens to turn to this imagery much more often than other genres because it makes sense with the general vibe that metal has, and with the stories metal musicians prefer to tell with their music. Metal is also very popular among people recovering from and deconstructing negative religious experiences after leaving the faith (i.e. apostates), which explains some of it as well.
Not even satanists actually believe Satan exists. He’s just a metaphor.
Literally Satanism uses Satan as a metaphor for antiestablishment themes of the religion. I used to be laveyan Satanist and yeah, there's no talk of Lucifer. It's all about independent morality, regardless of any post-life consequences
yes. thank u for this! also love behemoth and thank u for understanding what these artists r trying to articulate
FUCKING THANK YOU THIS IS WHAT I THINKING
Not only that, but there are a bunch of Christian metal/metal adjacent bands that exist peacefully in the community just fine without freaking out about their contemporaries’ lyrics and stuff.
My sister walked into the room and when she heard this she started mocking the songs like
"Satan, I said what I said, id rather follow Christ instead" 😭😭