That’s true, but that doesn’t explain it. For example, I love the secular pop stuff that’s out now-—as opposed to the secular stuff that was out maybe 10 years go. It has markedly improved (sure, it’s nowhere close to the Beatles, Cream, Eagles, blah, blah, but it’s far better than the late 1990s stuff.
I think Christian pop lost a lot of fire and originality when DC Talk and Point of Grace and Avalon broke up, when Chapman and Smith began to tail off, and when the new wave of “whiner” male and female Christian singers came in. I still like new music that is good of all varieties-—the Killers, Eagles of Death Metal, etc. But face it, the new Christian stuff just isn’t very good.
I think some old taboos — social ones, but not biblical ones — will need to be breached.