Hayley Williams is an absolute queen

I've said it before.

Anyone that's ever had any long term interactions with people involved in christian music scenes, particularly contemporary christian music, knows that the entire industry is morally bankrupt, and most of the musicians are mid tier hacks using the label of christian to cover up their many vices and abuses.

You will not meet a shittier group of human beings outside of a nazi rally. Since there's some overlap between christian music and nazism and bigotry, that's not saying much. Mind you, that overlap isn't so huge that it's the same thing, but you'd be surprised how often you run into the nazi memorabilia "collectors", and folks with white sheets sewn into interesting garments in ccm and even plain gospel.

And don't get me started on the drug use and sexual abuse that goes on. Some of those fuckers make 80s rock bands look ascetic.

And it isn't just the big names and big money circles either. That shit goes all the way down to performers going around to perform at churches.

Which, I ain't got problems with sex and drugs. You do you, I'm fine. Just don't be a faker. Don't be getting your dick sucked out back of a church in the tour bus after singing about saving yourself for Jesus. And yes, that's a very specific thing, and it did happen, and it all got ignored because those were "good christians".

For real, I've known black metal performers into the ugly kind of Satanism that are better people that most of the ccm performers out there.

The best part about Christianity is the music, but this ain't it.

Good for her, but I can't take articles serious when they use slam, slamming or slammed repeatedly and and unironically.

Holy shit! I’ve an old friend that had a mildly successful Christian band back in the early ‘00s and they opened for DC Talk a few times. He once told me that he smoked pot in a jacuzzi with Michael Tait (the guy referenced in the article) and that he repeatedly put his hand on his thigh under the water, but tried to laugh it off as “messing around.”

The music industry in general is rife with this sort of shit. Scratch that, the entire entertainment industry.

I always slam when listening to music