Stuff about the sanitation of the arts for Christians

Why is it that Christians feel the need to offer something that sounds exactly like the secular "something", except with Christian lyrics or "plot"? And why does it usually seem worse than the thing it is trying to imitate?

I think that for some reason or another Christians have got the idea that we can't show real emotions, and act sad when we're sad, and be normal human beings with real emotions. SO we must make music that is like that too.

I remember being so entranced by this guy that came to our Christian school when I was in about 6th or 7th grade (Before I listened to any music mind you), when he came in to give a speech about Christian music. He gave us a humongous list with about 50 different secular bands on the list with a Christian band that sounds similar right beside them. For a few years, I bought into his philosophy of just using "sanatized" christian stuff, until I really started listening to music. First of all, there is an absolutely wonderful world out there that the Christian is missing out on if he or she just listens to what is considered Christian music. Secondly, the Christian music that they are listening to may be made with less of a biblical perspective than the secular music that is just like it. There are sure some good motivitations going on with these Christian artists, but they are also neglecting the biblical idea of "singing a new song to the Lord". Like I said before, by limiting yourself to being copies of someone else's music, you are limiting your creativity. And by limiting yourself to just praise music, you are limiting yourself to one aspect of God's world, and leaving so much of the life he has given you untouched. As the years pass, I have less and less feelings of what I believe is false guilt for not writing or listening to straight up Christian music. I think I was told one thing for so long from Kindergarten through 8th Grade, that it is very hard to this day, to keep Romanowski's perspective on the arts, and especially Christian music, though I know it is the correct one.