My favorite line? “Jesus never hugged.”
Can’t wait for the follow up single, “Greet Each Other With a Holy (Side) Kiss”.
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November 25th, 2009 § 10
My favorite line? “Jesus never hugged.”
Can’t wait for the follow up single, “Greet Each Other With a Holy (Side) Kiss”.
Please tell me thats a joke. Unbelievable.
This. Is. Disgusting.
wow.
I wonder how much they had to pay those two dudes to stand in the back and look tough. They could not wait to get off the stage.
“dat’s what we do, boo.”
wait, what’s with all the sirens and what sound like some serious gun shots? i’m sad.
“we be side-huggin. errrry day n night.” hahahaha wait no. i’m not sad anymore.
I’m late to the side hugging party but this makes me angry on every level.Yes…angry.
Level 1. The message: I got saved in side huggin’ youth church. (A mega side huggin youth church at 500 strong, but a side huggin one all the same) There the ideology of front huggin is sin because its not God’s best for your life. And the oft used “How long will you hold hot coals to your chest” verse was thrown around freely. uhhhh, front hugging is a sin? Really? Unless she’s got D cups or larger (and not a size 20 pants) or you’re a perv side huggin doesn’t matter. I knew all the side hugging student leaders that were banging the girls they were side hugging so IT DIDN’T MATTER! The side huggin sex is the sin not the side hug.
2. The music: GARBAGE!!!!!
3. The delivery: Now, this might seem a bit over the top but here me out. Everytime I see a white suburban church do homegrown hip-hop, I get nervous. Not because I think it won’t be good, but because since its not their culture and therefore will be goofy at best and pertuating racial and cultural stereotypes at worst. If you want to reach hispanics, you don’t get a white guy to speak in a spanish accent and put “o” at the end of every word and call it using the spanish culture to reach people, do you? Of course not. Why? Because its ignorant at best and racially insensitive if not flat out racist at worst. I see stuff like the Side Hug and see them with the bandanas, baggy clothes, silly “rap” movements, gun shots and hardcore mexicans standing in the background and I’m just ugggggggghhh about it. I think its VERY unintentional but VERY much like the black face comedy sketches of the early and mid 20th century. “That’s what we do boo” WHAT?!?!?! Who do you call boo in Napa Valley, CA (where this was filmed)
I know that’s a hardline to take after the whole Deadly Vipers thing but I’ve been seeing this FAILED attempt at contextualization and others like it and I just get mad.
Sorry for thread jacking. Thanks for letting me get that off of my chest. Now in total rebellion of this song, I’m off to see my Corinthian temple prostitute. :0)
Thanks for your insights, Steve. Not being part of the hip hop culture (obviously) it is very interesting to hear the perspective of someone who is.
I easily see how this is offensive to people who take hip hop seriously as an art form, much like I find Christian fiction to often be a mockery of serious writing and literature. It would sure be nice to see genuine expressions of Christian art become more common place…or at least more visible in mainstream culture.
Yeah, I probably feel about this as you do about the 3rd left behind movie.
Has there been GOOD Christian fiction to come out since the contributions by the Inklings? I’d be VERY curious to see some. (and if you say the Shack, I’m gonna have to unfollow you lol!)
I think that for me the notion of a specific genre of literature that is “Christian” is probably the root of the problem. The reality is that most Christian media was generated to meet the demands of a very specific demographic that is not necessarily concerned with artistic integrity as much as a Christian moralism that doesn’t accurately (in my view) portray life as we know it.
That being said, there are some very good writers who are Christians, but who would not do very well in a Christian books store. I’m thinking of folks such as Anne Lamott and Denis Johnson, and some dead ones like Graham Greene and Flannery O’Connor.
I also worked for a literary journal at one point called Image that produced incredibly important and well-written fiction, essays, art, and poetry.
http://imagejournal.org/
BTW – I’d unfollow myself if I mentioned The Shack as part of a great pantheon of Christian literature.
PLEASE. MAKE. IT. STOP.
“I’m a rough rider, give that Christian side hug.”
I was so hoping this was parody at first. I’m not sure what is more damaging. The lack of spiritual depth insisting on questionable moralism or that people will actually judge Christianity by that crap.
Lord have mercy on us sinners.