Funny/Weird situation I'm in right now

I would sing the lyrics she wrote in rehearsal and do the instrumentals live or on recording. Have a good time with it.

 

Dude's willing to let his MOM write religious lyrics for his rock band? I don't even know what to say to that.

 

Best Mom! I know my mom would never try to write lyrics for me (religious or otherwise). Practice at your drummer's and have his mom sing...she'll almost definitely butt out after that

 

My parents are gone, however when I was your age back in the 60s they were more than encouraging but neither ever wrote any lyrics for me.

I don't think your in a bad situation at all. It's a for fun thing, have fun and take a second look at her lyrics, she might be on to something.

Blue

 

I would sing his moms lyrics in the quintessential death metal growl...

 

LOL, thanks for venting/sharing - to funny. It’s sound like your drummer friend and his mother need to start a band together and call it "Mommas Drummer".

 

A butt-in-ski Mom who wants you to sing Christian music. If you can handle it with a sense of humor you're a better man than I. That's just way over the top as far as I am concerned.

 

While I like the suggestion of doing her lyrics as death metal, I prefer my first thought...

She wants religious music? Oh, I can do that. Does she prefer Satanic covers or Eric Cartman style re-writes resulting in inappropriate use of "Jesus"?

 

It's kind of amazing. I've noticed a culture of control within religions. It becomes so normal to people that they don't even know what they're doing. Dictating the kind of choices someone has to make, and then making the choice for them like this kids mom did is a perfect example.

I don't think there's anything to be said about it except "hey, these lyrics are great!"
After that, of course, you just do whatever you're gong to do. Maybe your drummer will be able to laugh about this with you some time in the future.

 

If you could find a way to make Darth Vader the good guy, I think you'd have something there.

 

Invite his mom to come and sing her lyrics with you guys. If she won't do it, tell her the lyrics are out.

 

It'd be like a Star War's version of NIB.

That sounds like a whacked family man. Name yourselves 'Killsong' and play deathmetal Hillsong covers.

 

I don't even know what to say here.....

When I was a teen in a band practicing in my parents house (late 70s) we were devout Baptists (father a deacon, mother Sunday School teacher), and our singer was the son of a Methodist minister. All 4 of us in the band were Christians. None of our parents ever told us what we could play, or made any suggestions. Even when we played Black Sabbath's Paranoid.

As someone that grew up a Christian I find it odd that any Christian would think that only Christian music should be played. IMO there is a time and place for everything. It is fine to play religious music at church or even at home, but it is also alright to play secular rock music at home. I think if you are comfortable with your faith then it is not threatened by other music. As always, YMMV.

I hope this makes sense. I typed it 20 minutes after I took Ambien for sleeping, and my fingers aren't working so well...

 

This reminds me of a friend of mine. His son (now 20) has played guitar for about 7 years, practices conscientiously and to me sounds pretty good at the stuff he plays (not what I would choose to listen to but I am not 20 and haven't been for a lot of years). Trouble is his dad thinks because he doesn't like his son's choice of songs then no one else will.

He keeps pestering me to teach him some Beatles songs, "something everybody knows". Now the kid is perfectly capable of learning Beatles songs if he wants to without my help and I keep refusing. He even dragged me down to one of his son's band rehearsals (they rehears at his house) so I could "offer advice on song selection". I did no such thing of course but I did advise him to step back and let his son choose his own musical course. That was about 18 months ago and he hasn't mentioned it since so I think I might have won that one.

 

Have you ever heard a sermon where the person says "do everything for God?"

I always interpreted that to mean stop and think before you take action, decide if what you are going to do is good or will have a good outcome. Some people take it to mean that one should literally make everything about God.

If you combine a controlling personality and the second interpretation of that idea, you get a situation like the one in the OP.

 

I have never heard one single Christian song that I liked. So I know what I would say, but I ain't giving anyone here any advice about that.

 

Please please please post the lyrics
Pretty please?

 

Let her know that in Christian metal, the lyricist provides the PA, van, and refreshments.