When’s the last time a rock band was labeled a “science band”, but you can name four or five christian bands without even listening to them?

I feel like a pedant, but I’m sorry, the notion that most Americans can name five Christan bands/artists is bullshit. Maybe most Bible Belters can. Christian music gets the designation of “Christian music” because it is segregated away from everything else, listened to by a large, but still niche demographic who are already very religious, and treated as a joke by everyone else (including most non-Evangelical Christians.)

I can name two, Skillet and Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. The former is just the band I see mentioned to make jokes about Christian music, and the latter I saw on a show about one hit wonders (the hit is about domestic violence and doesn’t even have faith based undertones.) If I start making exceptions like “became Christian after the height of their fame” (Kansas and Kanye West) or “stopped being Christian before they became known” (Katy Perry) I can get to five.

And on that note, what would a “science band” be? Like, a band that writes lyrics about new scientific discoveries? Yeah that’d have more in common with Nick Jr. than most music, secular or not. Most music deals with emotions in a way Christian music can but “science music” couldn’t. The closest would be philosophy, but there’s already a ton of music drawing on philosophy, and nobody segregates it from normal music because it’s not music that only appeals to a specific demographic.