So I made rips of a bunch of various CDs from when I was in middle school.
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So I made rips of a bunch of various CDs from when I was in middle school. I’ve also been going through my childhood with my therapist so it’s all floating around in my head right now.
I used to be very into Skillet. because I appreciated that they were a Christian band but didn’t shove it down your throat. And their style of rock was lined up with the rest of the stuff I was listening to.
in 2013 I went to one of their concerts with my family (I was fourteen). I bought the CD of their new album Rise. It was probably the last of theirs that I’ve really liked. I ripped that album this weekend, and was listening to it today. I think I’m starting to understand what I appreciated about Skillet then and what they’ve long since lost.
Skillet went from a band who in 2013 had a song with lyrics:“Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise and revolution!
It's our time to change it all
Rise and revolution!
Unite and fight, to make a better life!
Everybody one for all
Sound off, this is the call
Tonight we rise”
To a band who released an album called “Revolution” and said “nah it’s not really about a rebellious kind of revolution. it’s about a revolution of love”
When I grew up listening to them I got the impression that they were on the progressive side of social and political issues. They gave me a different impression from the hardcore right wing extremist Christians lived around (who now I just describe as “trumpers”).
But Skillet released “Revolution” on Election Day in US 2024. And some of the themes explored in the album are definitely NOT progressive. Maybe they were hardcore right wingers all along and I was just too young to notice? idk. maybe John Cooper has been becoming more vocal of ideas he’s had all along that I just thought didn’t fit with his ideology.
Either way, Skillet’s early 2010s era music still has a special place for me, but I’m not expecting that feeling to happen for any of their music in the future. -
So I made rips of a bunch of various CDs from when I was in middle school. I’ve also been going through my childhood with my therapist so it’s all floating around in my head right now.
I used to be very into Skillet. because I appreciated that they were a Christian band but didn’t shove it down your throat. And their style of rock was lined up with the rest of the stuff I was listening to.
in 2013 I went to one of their concerts with my family (I was fourteen). I bought the CD of their new album Rise. It was probably the last of theirs that I’ve really liked. I ripped that album this weekend, and was listening to it today. I think I’m starting to understand what I appreciated about Skillet then and what they’ve long since lost.
Skillet went from a band who in 2013 had a song with lyrics:“Sound it off, this is the call!
Rise and revolution!
It's our time to change it all
Rise and revolution!
Unite and fight, to make a better life!
Everybody one for all
Sound off, this is the call
Tonight we rise”
To a band who released an album called “Revolution” and said “nah it’s not really about a rebellious kind of revolution. it’s about a revolution of love”
When I grew up listening to them I got the impression that they were on the progressive side of social and political issues. They gave me a different impression from the hardcore right wing extremist Christians lived around (who now I just describe as “trumpers”).
But Skillet released “Revolution” on Election Day in US 2024. And some of the themes explored in the album are definitely NOT progressive. Maybe they were hardcore right wingers all along and I was just too young to notice? idk. maybe John Cooper has been becoming more vocal of ideas he’s had all along that I just thought didn’t fit with his ideology.
Either way, Skillet’s early 2010s era music still has a special place for me, but I’m not expecting that feeling to happen for any of their music in the future.@robustjumprope That is the risk when you tie your political weather vane solely to a group identity or a "team". The movement of the team beneath you can radicalize you without you even noticing. Even in the past 10 years, the religious right has become far more radical than it was prior, and similar with the 10 years before that. There are a lot of people in that space I'd call slowly boiled frogs.
I tend to believe that if you don't have an explicit political constitution of your own (what you believe, why you believe it, and how it is to be implemented), your politics are picked for you by whatever your main identity group is (family, religion, etc).
