A Bad Dream

I was just reading my friend Dave's most recent post about the best Christian music this year. It got me thinking about some of the high-points we've heard from Christian artists, and some of the low points also (the award for most disapointing album of the year goes to Third Day for the sub-par "Wire")

So, while contemplating all that is good about Christian music, I heard the most bizarre Christmas song EVER recorded in the history of the world yesterday. Well OK that may be a small exaggeration. Go ahead and look this one up online somewhere. It is HORRIBLE. Nice idea, but horrible. Like a mixed drink gone bad. Or something.

So, basically, Burlap to Cashmere decided to do a version of "Holy Night". Sounds good, right? Well, yeah, except they decided to layer that on top of Jaci Velasquez singing "For God So Loved The World". Again, nice idea, but the end result is terrible.

It's wonderfully produced and mixed etc. It's not out of tune singing or anything. But it just doesn't work musically. It doesn't ever come together as one complete song. Instead of sounding like a single cohesive unit, it sounded more like the radio was mistakenly somehow playing two songs at once, fading one song in, then the other, back and forth. Like a bad joke by the DJ.

It was like mixing orange juice and chocolate milk - the end result left me feeling queasy.

Please, please don't try this at home.