Christian Teens Embracing Harder Rock Music | Christianpost.com
The younger generation of Christians is embracing music with a harder edge, according to a popular magazine for Christian teens that announced in its latest issue its readers' top music choices.
(...) this year, a majority of the 5,000 magazine readers who voted, aged
13 to 18, leaned in favor of hard rock bands bumping down pop and soft
rock groups. The results are published in the April/May issue.The trend is most evident in the award's Best Vocalist category.
John
Cooper of Skillet won the Best Male Vocalist – a title that
bounced between Jason Dunn (Hawk Nelson), Matt Thiessen (Relient K) and
Jeremy Camp in previous cycles of the awards. Trevor McNevan of
Thousand Foot Krutch placed second.The Best Female Vocalist
category welcomed its first ever winner from a hard rock band: Lacey
Mosley of Flyleaf. The frontwoman beat out former holders of the title,
Tricia Brock (Superchick) and Alyssa Barlow (BarlowGirl).(...) Meanwhile, pop artist Rebecca St. James, who placed third in that
category in 2006, moved down to fifth. Any lower than fifth would have
placed her only in the honorable mention list.
