JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for June 11, 2014

I’m sorry. I don’t understand. I know that allot of older people don’t like the loud worship songs but, this doesn’t make sense to me

Thank you. Thought I was the only one who did not get this.

Now I’m really confused.

Someone will need to explain this one to me.

It’s a popular song released last year by DJ Snake and Lil Jon. It’s been a long standing tradition for there to be Christian equivalents to pop culture. It’s also a phrase on Urban Dictionary, not that I understand it. lol

Oh yeah, duh. The phrase and the song are linked, both alcohol related.

I’m not getting how “Turn down for what” takes the place of an old hymn. What hymn would it be replacing?

It’s an Internet Meme, and those don’t always admit to satisfactory explanations. It was a rap piece of few words, pretty enigmatic, but it caught on. Then a video of kittens dancing to it went viral. Like a lots of verbal meme’s with undefined meanings, it get’s applied to lots of things in lots of situations. Part of the joke here, is that the song only has a few words, repeated, and the line, “Turn down for what,” is most of the song, so for him to forget the title is both silly and unlikely, unless one was oblivious to Internet memes. That’s why the Urban Dictionary is kind of wishy-washy about it. People post only the instances they’ve heard, and it has no fixed meaning.

Nothing new here. In Victorian times, phrases like, “That’s a shocking bad hat.” suddenly was used for everything. In the same period, the gesture of putting your hand under your chin and waving your fingers (not the similar rude Italian gesture) “went viral” and was also used in every imaginable circumstance.

This has all been very interesting. Thanks, MeGoNow. Nos Nevets, that was a clever way to define “praise chorus.” I’m still not 100% sure about what’s going on, but guess it’s like those “youth services” I’ve blundered into from time to time.

After all the “explanations” I still don’t get it.

Anything that needs this much explanation isn’t very funny.

“That’s a shocking bad hat” at least makes sense.

The state of popular music nowadays (60 million views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU

Nos Nevets: And the tune has no finale so it can’t end and must be repeated ad nauseam. Played by electric guitars with the volume consuming as much electricity as a small house. I encountered a substitute accompanist at our church who “never saw a trombone in a church before” – obviously no fan of James Weldon Johnson!

I can’t decide if these panels are mocking what is happening to church music or not. All I know is that if the beat is something you can dance to in a nightclub or swinging house party, it doesn’t belong in the church. Just my thoughts. If I hear hip hop, pop, jazz, dance rhythm sampling in a so called christian song, the last thing it will make me think of is God. Why can’t these “christian” artist get that through their heads??? Chose a side. In or out!! Even the bible says pick on, you can’t be both. They just confuse folk.

Ah. Like "What Does The Fox Say? Song lyrics have degraded a lot since “The Duke Of Earl”….

There’s nothing wrong with a tune you can dance to in the church – David danced while rejoicing in front of the Lord – his wife (Saul’s daughter) rebuked him for it and was unable to bear children after she’d rebuked him.

Comic strip fail.

What?