A curious thought...

So I'm sitting at work today and I click over to turn on my Pandora music station.  And while I'm listening to one of my stations (originally began by simply looking for Imagine Dragons), I begin to notice something.  It's not really all that unusual but as the songs roll on from "Demons" to "Holland Road" from Mumford and Sons, then to "Paradise" by Coldplay, and then on to "Show Me What I'm Looking For" by Carolina Liar, my mind was slowly awakened to something.

It seems that the searching is still with us.  I don't usually like to get all religious and spiritual here, but perhaps it's time to call a butterfly a butterfly.

I grew up in the '80s and '90s with all the promises of casual sex without emotional attachment (now all but totally debunked) and rebellion to set us free.  But, now these bands that the youth are clinging to (and I enjoy listening to, too) seem to be searching for something higher that that which has been promised by the world.

Wow, shocker.  You mean this fractured version of paradise is actually not enough for the human soul?  Who would have thought?

Could this be a rising cultural back lash?

If I take five minutes to do a quick search on the backgrounds of these groups, it seems I'm not far off.  Mumford and Sons, Carolina Liar, Coldplay, and Imagine Dragons all have deep religious ties to Christianity in some way, even though they may be shying away from the label of "Christian Band" (something I can't blame them for as the term "Christian" alone carries a lot of negative imagery to non-Christians).  However, one of my favorite quotes of all time comes from C.S. Lewis about how the world doesn't need more "Good Christian books, but good Christians writing books."  In other words, who we are bleeds our message out into the world, and the world will absorb our message.

Just an interesting thought.  Could we be in seeing the start of the pendulum swing?