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I’m researching a dissertation into the Christian record industry and in doing so i need to know what the more mainstream non-Christian consumer thinks of Christian music.
1.Do you listen to or purchase any known Christian artists? Who?



2.This question is designed to show how a non-Christian would react to Faith based lyrics. Some being more obvious than others. Place a ‘0’ in one box for each lyric.

1.“He is, He is the song on my lips. He is, He is the one who makes me live” (with obvious reference to God and the Christian faith).

Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [ ]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]

2.“I feel this love, I found this piece. I found out what it means to live. Best of all it comes for free”
(Quite obvious connotation of salvation but no reference to God or Jesus)

Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [ ]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]


3.“I left my life somewhere behind me, not that it was life completely”
(not so obvious Christian influence and no reference to God or jesus).

Would not offend you or put you off a song or album [ ]
Would find it hard to relate to and probably skip this particular song [ ]
The lyric would put you off an album or artist all together [ ]



3.Would you say that there is an assumption that Christian artists provide “fluffy” music, in the sense that the quality of music is generally not as good as more secular artists?

4.Feel free to write any of your own or other possible assumption that are made over music.





(If you have time, the next section involves checking out tracks found at myspace.com/boydoodie. This is because my dissertation is alongside a practical project album.)

5. Ignoring your own bias to certain genres, would you say that any of the tracks could have a place in the mainstream market and would you say the album as whole could still be appreciated by non-Christians? Why?



6. Rate each of these elements of this track out of 10. 10 being very high, 1 being very low. For instance, if you think the lyrics sucked, put a 1 in the ‘lyrical content’ box.

Lyrical content [ ]
Musicianship [ ]
Overall sound of the track (production) [ ]
Melody and musical structure [ ]
Cover art work and packaging [ ]
Creativity of the music [ ]


Thanks for participating!
Dan