The Bible and Music

From the beginning of class, we start by sharing the music allusions to the Bible and analyzed each song. The first two songs were not similar to several students in class, however most everyone had heard it before. Some of the connections to the Bible were more direct than others and some actually find more than one verse or story that was depicted in the song lyrics. I liked how we listened to the song after we shared and it gave me an idea of the style of music, instead of solely looking at the lyrics for imagery. A few songs had other allusions to Christian songs too, like Carrie Underwood’s song, “Must Have Been Something in the Water.” A surprising song that was shared was, “Viva La Vida.” This is a song that I was familiar with and previously listened to multiple times. I did not realize how many biblical allusions that it had and how in depth you could go to look into each line in the lyrics. The “David” song that was written by Noah Gundersen was another one that had an interesting story and its message relating to David and Goliath. This common story is known for the underdog story, however the artist is not depicting these two fighting each other. He relates it to his personal experiences and battles. Nearly every line in this song starts with “I” and it is the artist reflecting on his own life. The song that I shared was, “Fire” by U2. U2 was a band that I used for four of my songs that had biblical allusions and finding one song of theirs led me to more.