Born into a Christian family and been told at times the type of music you should listen to and the ones you should not listen to, I grew up discovering there are two major genre of music which is called the gospel and secular music.
A lot of my friends have gotten into argument at times on the debate on whether is there any thing called secular music or what actually brought about the term secular music.
To an extent, they prove themselves right as they believe music is Music and should not be categorised into either secular music as some people claimed and also to an extent they were wondering on what foundation was music group into secular music or gospel music as they believe why gospel music is gospel music and why secular music is secular music
I grew up listening to different music's at different stages. And even till now I still listen to some of them though not as before. There are still some people in crossroad as whether there is anything called secular music and there are a whole lot of people who quite believe there are secular music and they are always ever ready to prove it to people
Different people having their different perspective about what they think and what they believe. At one point, I was among those who doesn't not believe secular music exist instead I just believe music is Music and should be enjoyed depending on the angle you are seeing it
And also there was a point I begin to believe there is secular Music and to the extent I begin to filter the types of music I listen. Well mindset adds to the fact
In as much as some people might want to characterise music into different genres or groups like JuJu, Fuji, hip hop, rock, blues or into the two categories I am talking about, I just believe music is to be enjoyed irrespective of the group it falls into
To some they enjoy listening to hip hop, to some it is blues and to some it might be another different genre. Whatevers the genre and music types you find you love most, listen to it and enjoy the true beauty of music
Music was created to be enjoyed and not to cause segregation in some part of people belief all because based on their opinion and mindset about it. Let's disregard that argument or debate that exist about one genre of music is better than the other type of music and vice versa, this does not help music itself and this even restrict us to enjoy to the fullness the world of music
A lot of people has really cause hate in the world of music because of their segregation on based of what types of music you should listen to and the ones you should not listen to which is not supposed to be so. That a particular person listen to this genre of music you didn't always listen to doesn't mean you should hate the person or hate the genre of music he listen to
Instead embrace the love and share the beauty of music together irrespective of different opinions and options. Music is for everyone and not for certain people. Music is supposed to be enjoyed and not supposed to be hated upon.
I will love to hear in the comments section what do you think about this topic, do you think secular music exist? Why do you think it exist? Why do you think it does not exist?
Hello @temileke I'm also a christian too and this is my own philosophy of music is this...
Whatever genre of music it is, I listen to the wordings. The lyric of the song carries the message and that's usually what attracts me to a song irrespective of the genre.
So whatever is positive, meaningful and relatable, I sing and enjoy the music.
What we listen to, what we vibe to has a way of influencing and reflecting our lives. So I'm careful what I listen to.
I don't condemn anyone or tell anyone what to sing and not to sing. Like you said, music was created to be enjoyed and enjoying music is what I do.