Ok. Popa’s back.
So far the argument being made is that these songs somehow have a bad effect on you, because they are rooted in pritzus, or I don’t know what.
Now, we can easily say that that is unrelated to whether it is originally “non-jewish.” For example, I don’t imagine you would say that about all songs composed by people who aren’t jewish (aren’t frum?).
Is it:
Choice A- the tune? Well, that should apply to many songs written by frum composers.
Choice B- the original words? Interesting theory. Is that only a problem if you know the original words? (What if the original was chassidishe, but then someone made prust words?)
Choice C- the composer? That is just bizarre.
In any event, all these problems don’t seem to have anything to do with “non-jewish;” rather with the specifics of the songs or specific composer.
So, you would really need to know which of the three choices was the problem, and then how it applied to that song.
It is inappropriate. It has nothing to do with who writes the song, it’s the song. And most of their songs today are blatantly expressing utter pritzus. Transforming a song that promotes such things is wrong. There doesn’t have to be an issur on it for it to be wrong. Write your own music.
It’s a sensitivity which it sounds like musicaldignity possesses (and you don’t). It’s just another form of assimilation.
I suppose I can’t respond to that. You have said it isn’t any of the possibilities, but that it is wrong anyway, and that I apparently don’t have the sensitivity.
Well, not every sensitivity you have is correct. Sometimes it is just shtus.