In the Christian music industry, the second and most blatant aspect I would like to criticize is the music itself. I cannot criticize the industry for poor musicianship and boring material, because the same can largely be said for the secular pop industry. Christians often write cheesy, clich songs about God, and the secular world frequently writes equally bad songs about love. The problem with the music is that whenever possible the industry does its best to imitate the most recent secular bands. These two examples bring up the next problem I have with Christian music, which is the issue of timeliness.
Christian bands can keep up with fads well.
This was demonstrated most recently by the ska and swing fads of the 90s. The Christian music industry has to be one of the few places left in the United States which still has ska bands booked as headlining acts in large venues. More than that, the bands headlining sometimes are not even good examples of the fads they represent. For example, musically and lyrically, the Supertones were never anything remarkable. Their horns played dissonant melodies of only a few notes, their guitars played on the up beat and many times with the same chord throughout the song, and their lyrics seldom went deeper than the two-dimensional.