Yitayningwut:
Not sure what you’re trying to prove from the ‘Tupim Um’cholos’. Percussion accompanying refined melodious and uplifting tunes – no issue there.
Also not sure what contemporary christian evangalistic rock music proves except possibly that like modern Jewish singers, they too have also lost their way in this field. I read once that many christian leaders decry this trend themselves.
Re your last points. Nobody said anything about good or bad. It’s about materialistic and animalistic vs spiritualistic and emotive.
And finally, it’s not hype and no, you do not need to know enough music – in fact your repertoire of music can be limited to nursery rhymes – and you will still be able to tell that gangsta-rap and heavy metal is more prost and unrefined (even ignoring the lyrics) than Bach and Mozart. The differences amongst the genres in between while at first less obvious are still true.