Eyes Wide Open-Old American Band Stand Standard

In Eyes Wide Open, Romanowski brings up the point, that like most people, Christians want to have media to relax to, and ease their mind, and most of them don't think a lot about the films that they watch, or the music that they consume. "'It has a good beat, and you can dance to it' suffices for determining musical quality".

The statement, unfortunately, captures about 25 percent of the people I see on facebook, when they describe what music they like.

I suppose part of the reason such a statement bothers me so much is because I naturally tend to over analyze media because it is just part of my make up. So when I see something like "Anything that can make me move my rump", it goes against every way I think.

Secondly, I think that such a standard for determining musical quality, or even film quality ("it has lots of action in it" for example is a statement equivalent in the film world) undermines our capacity for creativity and our ability to understand and appreciate art that is part of being in the image of God. God has given the human race so much potential creativity, and along with that creativity, the ability to appreciate creativity. By giving up our ability discuss film, and music in any type of intellectual format, we are robbing ourselves of a great opportunity for enrichment, but also robbing the artist. The worst case scenario is this: the public becomes so indifferent to cinema and music and art in general, and in what ways it moves them, that artists are no longer motivated to create anything beyond what gives an instant sensation to the consumer. The artists stops trying to achieve ingenuity because he is never made to think in such terms. Instead, the aim of art is simply to produce instant gratification for the consumer in the easiest way possible. The idea of trying to reach one's full potential in creativity that God has given him or her is squelched until the ideal and idea of ingenuity, and creativity is a thing of the past.