Since this is being discussed - my husband and I have been going around and around with this - our church is doing an evening service and they take all these beautiful, modern, worship songs, and they crank up the amps, crank up the bass, and then sort of scream the lyrics in what sounds off tempo - I just HATE it. I want them to find their own NEW stuff - not butcher songs I love. I don't even want to go to that service, but my husband thinks we should be there to support the evening effort.
It is bringing people in with multiple piercings, black fingernails and primary colored hair...and if those people are actually hearing a message, than...I'm sure it's a good thing - although I wouldn't be able to understand the words, if I wasn't able to guess which song they were distorting. We have 4 teens, and two of them like it - two of them don't. None of my kids listen to the really hard stuff...and if I can not dicipher the lyrics after a couple times through - we don't play them here.
I am 41 and I prefer a mix of music...I love How great thou art...and every thing Rich Mullins and Keith Green ever sang (that I've heard!)
I'm 50 and I pretty much like all music. My daughter is just 18 and currently at a Christian college pursing a degree in music. She loves the classic hymns and barely tolerates the more modern Christian music. My middle son, on the other hand, loves Christian rock. Both have their hearts in the right place and use music to worship God. I'm sure God loves to hear them both.