On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, wells wrote:
quoted 7 lines Not. Gospel is awful. All of it. Every last rare basement-recorded>
> Not. Gospel is awful. All of it. Every last rare basement-recorded
> out-of-print Aretha Franklin LP. White gospel's bad, black gospel's bad,
> evey race in between whoever sought to create gospel- well, it's bad too.
>
> But I digress.
>
If you'd said "I really hate gospel. All of it." then I'd say "whatever.
to each his own." But you state "Gospel is awful" as though you are an
omniscient arbiter of all things good and bad. All I can say is that
I doubt you've heard any really good Gospel, and have closed off your
mind from ever even accepting it.
Nearly all black singers of any quality got their start singing in church;
to reject Gospel out of hand is to reject something at the roots of a lot
of modern music. If it's religion that gets your knickers in a twist, well
you're going to have your knickers twisted a lot of the time, since religion
isn't going to go away.
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