Already said that, DJJ.
Cosine, Manedwolf, can you elaborate on the 70s folk rock thing?
I dare you to compare a Christian pop station and a secular pop station and then try to say that. Most pop music is neither technically complex musically nor deep and meaningful lyrically. It's true Christian musicians are generally drawn from a smaller pool so some of the stuff getting airtime might be slightly worse than average, but overall they are very similar in overall quality.
No one claimed that pop was deep, meaningful or complex. I don't think that's what pop music is about, and I don't think that's what we're talking about. Pop music doesn't depend on depth or musical complexity, and I think the main problem with Christian music is that it tries to be meaningful in a not-so-meaningful medium.
Maybe it's like a bunch of people hanging out, joking around about something like, say fuel prices, and suddenly one humorless individual starts getting all serious about it. And everyone just wishes he would shut up, so we can get back to having fun. I can recall some fun Christian pop that worked pretty well. Unfortunately, if it's all about fun, it's going to be more pop than Christian, so you can only take that so far.
Not that there isn't some good Christian rock/pop/folk out there.
