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September 8, 2006|By Kelefa Sanneh, the New York Times
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MercyMe - Even If "Lyrics" - YouTube | mercyme even if lyricsOne of this season's best agilely accessible bedrock albums came from a bandage that about never shows up on MTV, in Rolling Stone or on the Billboard bedrock charts.
It's alleged Coming Up to Breathe, a appellation that fits the music: The anthology epitomizes that raspy, blue (and sometimes bland) brand that rock-radio programmers alarm "modern rock."
But this is a CD that rock-radio programmers ability booty pains to avoid.
Coming Up to Breathe is the latest from MercyMe, and if that name doesn't arena accretion -- or appearance up on airplay archive -- that could be because MercyMe is one of the country's most-popular evangelical bands.
Every song on every anthology is about conservancy through Christ, and MercyMe's touring beat includes affluence of churches. [The bandage is allotment of Disney's calendar for the Night of Joy concerts this weekend.]
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804 best Christian Music images on Pinterest | Christian music ... | mercyme even if lyricsTo your boilerplate bedrock 'n' cycle fan, this ability complete like a bush approach. And yet MercyMe -- like Casting Crowns [also on the Disney bill] and a cardinal of added Christian bedrock bands -- commonly outsells abounding of its civil counterparts.
The band's 2001 album, About There, awash added than 2 actor copies, acknowledgment to its crossover hit "I Can Alone Imagine." Two follow-ups didn't do as well, admitting that's relative: Undone from 2004 still confused added than 600,000 copies, about the aforementioned as Bruce Springsteen's aftermost album.
Mainstream is merging
Back in the age of Motley Crue, churchgoing rockers sometimes seemed out of place. And admirers who bethink Stryper -- that abominable evangelical hair-metal bandage of the 1980s, accustomed for yellow-and-black spandex apparel -- ability be tempted to abolish today's Christian bedrock out of hand.
But instead of growing apart, boilerplate bedrock and Christian bedrock assume to accept developed afterpiece back the 1980s. Consider the modern-rock and emo bands who boss abreast bedrock radio: They're abounding of ardent and rather categorical adolescent men who generally assume added absorbed in the ability of adulation than the ability of lust. "Now, the alone aberration amid a Christian bandage and a accustomed bandage are the lyrics," says MercyMe bassist Nathan Cochran.
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MercyMe - Even If (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube | mercyme even if lyricsSo what aberration would it accomplish if those beefing lyrics are about a Him instead of a her?
"We all affectionate of accomplished our aptitude for music," Cochran says of his bandmates, "and we capital to use that aptitude to account the Lord."
Of course, some of those acutely boilerplate bedrock bands absolutely are Christian, although abounding of them adopt not to be labeled as such. Lifehouse is led by a Christian, and the bandage specializes in adorning (though vague) ballads. P.O.D. has developed added absolute about faith; the band's latest anthology is alleged Testify.
The brand of Christian bedrock has been authoritative strides, too. Casting Crowns accomplished No. 9 on the Billboard anthology blueprint aftermost fall. And Tooth & Nail, a adept Christian another label, is adorning a fistful of sermon-averse jailbait and emo bands, including the screamers in arising bandage Underoath. The group's best contempo album, They're Alone Chasing Safety, includes a activation song called, "I've Got 10 Friends and a Crowbar that Says You Ain't Gonna Do Jack."
A big-selling niche
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Mercy Me - Even If | My Faith Tunes... | Pinterest | Faith, Songs ... | mercyme even if lyricsThere's annihilation absolutely that aweless on Coming Up to Breathe, which is MercyMe's best absonant anthology so far. In case you absence the adumbration in the appellation clue ("I've captivated my animation for all my life/ But I am breaking chargeless tonight"), the band's singer, Bart Millard, explains who he's singing about: "Lord actuality I am again/ extensive for your hand."
More often, MercyMe relies aloft a accustomed admitting generally able head-fake: The song seems to be about a adventurous relationship, but it turns out to be a accord with God. In the distinct "So Continued Self," there's a activation guitar riff that could about be pop-punk, topped with airy lyrics about breaking up: "So continued self/Well it's been fun, but I accept begin somebody else."
There are affluence of antiquated lyrics, but the bandage additionally finds abnormal means to access its one and alone subject. "3:42am (Writer's Block)" is an communicable song about a disturbing writer, with a twist. This biographer isn't attractive for an aboriginal idea: "If the idea's mine/ It's a decay of time," he sings. He asks his brood to "Say what you wanna say" instead.
In an overwhelmingly Christian country, it ability assume aberrant that Christian bedrock alike exists as a alcove brand -- if bedrock bigger reflected American demographics, again civil bedrock would be the niche. But at a time back bedrock radio commands a abbreviating amount of listeners, and back above labels are disturbing to actualize the multimillion-selling stars they depend upon, alcove cachet ability not assume so bad. MercyMe already has a adherent fan base, a banal touring ambit and lots of loyal anthology buyers.
Cochran says MercyMe will consistently be a Christian bandage because the affection the associates accept for God drives what they do, but actuality accustomed by boilerplate admirers has been a absolute thing.
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Cindy Dantuma (dantumafamily4) on Pinterest | mercyme even if lyrics"It's been abundant to accept a accomplished new audience," he says. "You get bodies that accept never been to a Christian appearance afore and appear aloof because they know."
The devil may still accept the best tunes (for now), but can he bout that business model?
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