If you believe social conservatives in the media, the Hot 100 is a den of musical iniquity full of songs that are little more than advertisements for easy sex, drug abuse, and general un-American thought. They’ve been saying that for decades, and most of the time they’ve been right, but at the moment the pop charts are having some kind of spasm of morality and going all wholesome on us.
Christian pop has been making appearances on the secular charts for years, largely because they’re actual pop songs. Worship music in general, and “Oceans” in particular, are about as fun as a Methodist hymn, and really don’t offer non-Christians much reason to listen to them, unless they’re non-Christians who enjoy music that’s paradoxically bloated and limp at the same time. Seeing an example of it make it onto the Hot 100, even at the lowest reaches, is disappointing.
