@sun @arcana there's been similar argumentation in the christian-* media productions. you have a small corner of people like Skillet who approach it like just being a rock band and making good music that has a positive spin on it, and then you have the slop factories that put out drivel where everything is a constant sermon because ❓

surprising nobody, the result is people listen to Skillet and almost nobody listens to sermon_guitar.mp3

i'm not sure if Sabaton is sponsored but they also do a big deal of using historical events as a base but then building the song around it.

Caziviel mentioned something like this in an interview. he didn't like how much of a "crutch" it was/is to silo media like that; the skillet model reaches more people.

or summed up by david allen greer, "it has to be funny first." when asked how he managed a comedy show with a [black] political crew