This is just… terrible parodying terrible.
I love how they say “official parody video” — whatever that means.
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How to take a vapid song and make it entirely vacuous. Simply painful.
Do people (the human kind, I mean) enjoy this kind of thing?
One thing that really gets under my skin is how hard modern evangelical Christians in America try to usurp pop culture for their own purposes. It’s especially common with music. For an example, just look at all of those horribly embarrassing Christian rappers that have been popping up since rap became mainstream in the early 1990s. Not only do they try to usurp aspects of pop culture, but they always end up doing a horrible job of it and completely butchering whatever it was they originally copied (though, in this case, the original song isn’t exactly a masterpiece). The problem isn’t that Christianity lacks a deep and significant cultural tradition of its own to draw upon. The problem is that almost all of that deep cultural tradition comes from denominations like Catholicism and Orthodox churches which the evangelical types consider to be evil and the embodiment of the Anti-Christ. So, blah… Instead, they have to resort to becoming cultural parasites and leeching off of pop culture in a desperate attempt to make up for the fact that they reject traditional Christian culture just as strongly as they reject modern secular culture. It’s so obnoxious. :(
WHY WOULD YOU POST THIS.
Good point @DDM, I found it easy to stop it after a mere 4 seconds post-intro. I am disturbed that so many young people, teenagers and folks in their 20′s spouting the dogma of the Religious Right. I thought that being young made you rebellious, but these people just toe the line without question. I saw a video on youtube by ZOMGritsCriss that was about the villifying of Planned Parenthood in which she showed a propaganda video piece about the evils of Planned Parenthood and these kids were most likely not out of high school. When I was that age I wanted nothing to do with religion, authority, the status quo, hell…I hated everything and gave almost nothing any credibility, especially Christianity. Where have the young gone wrong? What has happened to the spirits of the young?
“The system filters out the thoughtful and replaces them with the faithful.”
“The earth is degenerating in these latter days. Bribery and corruption abound. Children no longer obey their parents, and it is evident based on this, that the end of the world is rapidly approaching.”
___from a five thousand year old Assyrian tablet.
That might be the whitest little girl I’ve ever seen.
hey, I’m at least that white
Nobody’s that white. George Bush isn’t even that white.
My American white-bred blood is distilled from generations of the Northern Europeans who emigrated to the Midwest prior to the civil war, and then continued to marry and breed with the next whitest person available. I cannot dance. I cannot jump. I cannot rap. My skin is unable to hold melanin. When exposed to sun, it turns red, then peels off to reveal new white skin underneath
I think I’m in love. <3
Your ancestors would prolly disapprove of me, I have freckles.
:) with the red hair too? I once had a crush on a redhead. Unrequited. But enough of an old married lady’s musings…
The freckles make you even whiter than I am, using the Fitzpatrick skin type scale. I’m a type 2, so not as white as I thought:
http://www.skincancer.org/fitzpatrick-skin-quiz.html
LOL! I’m type 1… the biggest boost in my score was my dark brown hair. I’ve got Snow White coloring… dark brown hair, blue eyes, and white white neon white glow in the dark white skin.
:P
OH! Oh, the sheer horror!!!
I used to listen to a lot of Christian Rock growing up in the Church, and I’ve thought a lot about this kind of stuff over the years. All modern Christian music seems to be a parody of one form of mainstream music or another for the simple reason, I believe, that these musical parasites lack all creativity of their own. Religion squelches all true artistic instinct because truly expressing yourself is frowned upon. I remember often feeling like a bad person after confiding in fellow Christians some honest thought or emotion, which is why they all wind up parroting each other when it comes to Jesus-y platitudes and why they aren’t capable of much musical or other artistic creativity.
I actually feel sorry for the girl in this video; I think that she feels the joy of life, and wants to be a good person and she obviously wants to make a contribution to society. Her world of churchies though limits her available opportunities, and this drivel is the tiny needle’s eye of opportunity she has to try and express herself. She also obviously thinks that she is contributing to God’s ministry on Earth, and is in for a rude awakening when she realizes that the Church considers this form of expression as an indulgence to youth, in order to trick them into thinking that Religion can be cool.
Hey @messiestobjects, glad you saw the light. You said, “I remember often feeling like a bad person after confiding in fellow Christians some honest thought or emotion, which is why they all wind up parroting each other when it comes to Jesus-y platitudes.” This is no less what the tprtyrethugnut rightwingnuttery nutjobs engage in, their echo chamber of FOX noise and rightwingnuttery conservative talk radio and the NON-thinktanks that permeate all dialogue from their echo chamber. They do no fact checking except through their echo chamber and they and up with parroting each other, even if they’re talking nonsense. Case in point, the trip to India of the President costing 200 million dollars per day, with 34 Navy war ships and an entourage of 3000 people whose accommodations being paid for by the taxpayer, and renting out the Taj Mahal; not to mention that by the time it ran through the echo chamber to Beck the 200 million dollars became 200 billion dollars per day. They, like the Religious Right, look no further for facts that might dispute what they want to be true. While the Religious Right use a book first written in 1657 BC up until 98 AD, in which nothing new had been added in 1900 years, yet Human knowledge has leaped and bounded into the stratosphere, there are 60,000 science journals that put out new findings all the time, and yet they rely on a book that has no science in it, and was written when there were Pagan religions whose notions of reality were equal in value to the Judeo-Christian spews of the Bronze Age. But why don’t they lend credence to Pagans as well? Paganism rituals and holidays were incorporated into Christianity, like the winter solstice Pagan celebrations that came around the time of JC’s birthday.
Just sayin’.
My favorite band is Christian. Was I supposed to give up what I like when I stopped believing in some supernatural force controlling my life? I don’t think so. I still sing religious Christmas carols too. It’s part of my heritage and Jingle Bell Rock is no substitute for In the bleak midwinter or I wonder as I wander.
A lot of excellent artists over the course of time have used faith or religious stories as inspiration. Are they inhibited
This kiddo, btw, is not to be confusion with actual art. It’s a silly parody by a little girl who’s not even in college yet. Some of us don’t get our rebellion on until later. Give her some time
*confused
I need to learn to read before I hit enter.
I stand by my earlier statement that this is not, strictly speaking, worse than the original. They are equally mind-numbing. But our minds were already numb to the original, while this “parody” refreshed the pain.
I enjoyed this one more than the original, because the original merely demonstrated a lack of artistic ability… this one demonstrates a lack of artistic ability combined with incredibly amusing pretentiousness.
Some seriously shallow, assuming, rabid trying to be grown up comments…sad…moving on.
Gee, everyone will miss you…