Data from Spotify (an online music platform) shows that Gen Z\u2019s most popular music search
term is the word \u201csad.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s younger audiences have a few melancholy standout artists, spanning across all genres – Lana Del Rey, Drake, The 1975, Zach Bryan, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift, to name a few. Folk and country music have surged in popularity with younger listeners, but it isn\u2019t just about the artists; it\u2019s about how they prefer to process and exist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today\u2019s teens are able to build a sonic landscape (what kind of music they listen to) that is customized to their specific preferences, and it seems like Gen-Z\u2019ers prefer slow, sad, and reflective (think minor key). They\u2019re not all written in a minor key, but many of them are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For years, people have listened to music for two reasons: to REFLECT<\/strong> their current mood and to CHANGE<\/strong> their current mood. Now, while it isn\u2019t wrong to listen to music in a minor key, I think that it is primarily a testimony of two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n (A) We live in such a busy and fast paced society that there is a part of us that really just wants to slow down<\/p>\n\n\n\n The truth is that we get ourselves into a lot of trouble simply because we are IMPATIENT<\/strong> and we are IMPULSIVE<\/strong>. We would do well to learn to slow down, to pause, and to think before making decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n (B) We live in such a CRITICAL<\/strong> and NEGATIVE<\/strong> world that it can almost seem impossible to be truly happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We don\u2019t feel like we measure up to certain standards. Instead of CONTROLLING<\/strong> our emotions, we focus more on EMBRACING<\/strong> and EXPRESSING<\/strong> our emotions. While our emotions were given to us by God as a means to enjoy the life that He has given us, simply embracing and expressing our emotions will very quickly wreak havoc on and ruin the life that God has given us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Data from Spotify (an online music platform) shows that Gen Z\u2019s most popular music searchterm is the word \u201csad.\u201d What It Tells Us Today\u2019s younger audiences have a few melancholy standout artists, spanning across all genres – Lana Del Rey, Drake, The 1975, Zach Bryan, Billie Eilish, Miley Cyrus, and Taylor Swift, to name a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":7,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/establishedwithgrace.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}James 5:7-8 says, \u201cBe patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh<\/em>.\u201d<\/pre>\n\n\n\n