There are a lot of bad worship songs, in my opinion, but there are a lot of good ones, too.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music.
The vocal arrangements are a big part of the formula for a Bad Religion song - layered harmonies and background vocals. So when I start to describe the elements of Bad Religion's sound, it starts to sound like a Christmas choir.
I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.
To me, there's two types of songs, good and bad. And I just like to stick with the good ones.
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.
I have seen more bad songs make it because of MTV than good ones that haven't.
There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
I think with any songwriter the first 1,000 songs are always terrible.
I find most 'sacred music' pretty dismal.