Rav Manis Mandel Ztzl commented about 25 years ago that Jewish music is starting to sound like Congo music. Granted back then there were very few such Congo music songs. But today the albums that sell sound like Madonna or NSync or any of the other musical bands and singers, except for the lyrics. So what counts? Yiddish lyrics with excellent messages of yiddishkeit and avdus Hashem, or the actual musical sound? If the messenger is good and the message is good, does it matter if the media isn’t what it used to be? And if you really think that Jewish music was fine 40 years ago, where did that come from? Non Jewish musical notes of that time, copied and adapted to Yiddish lyrics.
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