When is manipulation acceptable? Is it right to create and play worship music that works the audience using dynamics and stylized, purposeful, slow-downs and speed-ups to get the crowd engaged? When you hear that verse before the chorus slowly building up, and then the drums come in and the vocalist gives it all they've got, you feel your blood rush and your hairs tingle, is that not manipulation? Anyway, something to think about.
Humans are so self-centered. Always talking about themselves, looking for pity, or trying to impress.
One without glory...
The man who dances alone.
He finds himself happy.
Happy, yet alone.
Alone with his few.
Not to prove, nor to pride.
One without glory.
Not without love.
No. All is for love.
One without glory. What I hope to be.
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More to come...
-One.
Edited Dec. 3 2008
1 comment:
Manipulation is a tainted word.
People delude themselves. I think the key is in the definition of the word "catharsis".
A sad movie can cause people to become sad, but they have to choose to enter into a 'suspension of disbelief'.
What's more, they have to be able to relate to it. You cannot get sugar from a salt shaker, no matter how hard you shake it... no, you can only get out of something what is already in it.
No matter how 'manipulated' you allow yourself to be, (and it is always a choice), you cannot express a love for G-d that does not exist. You can pretend, you can get some warm fuzzies, but you cannot be manipulated into expressing something that is not real.
Worship music merely allows people to express what is already inside of them.
True worship should be expressing what is in the leaders, also, of course. The goal should not be to manipulate the audience, and I do not deny that this [regrettably] happens.
S.
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