Michael W. Smith, "A Million Lights"
The convergence of different popular musical genres into a single "monogenre" is a strange, somewhat unsettling phenomenon for a music fan of my generation. I used to feel very comfortable knowing that certain genres, like Country and Contemporary Christian music, were Not For Me. And Michael W Smith was a case in point; even though he was one of the few Christian acts to cross over to the pop charts in the early 90s, his songs were absolutely awful; if you looked in the dictionary under "execrable schmaltz," there was a picture of Michael W Smith.
But recently I stumbled upon his most recent single, and I'll be damned if Michael W Smith isn't making better Coldplay songs than Coldplay are these days. It's making me reexamine a lot of my old assumptions and prejudices. I was a confirmed Christian music hater, but you might say I'm now having a crisis of faith.
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