Kirk Franklin, who just released his lyric video for “My World Needs You,”on BET, is concerned about the future of gospel music. The Losing My Religion singer shared his fears with the state of gospel music with Erica Campbell, host of Get Up! Mornings With Erica.
“It’s not only a decline of the music, but a decline of Jesus in the culture. Kids are not going to church and they’re not listening to the music anymore,” Franklin said. “So if music dies… See, my fear is, I don’t want gospel music to die like disco and rock ‘n’ roll. Nowhere in the Bible is God commanding us to do records.”
“I think one of the low points for me is to see a genre that I love so much struggle so hard. And I know that you’ve got to be careful because you don’t want people to feel like you’re whining and complaining,” he said. “But it is very real that when something gets hit hard that the thing at the bottom sometimes suffers the worst. Gospel music has really taken a hit as far as the industry.”
He continued: “We’re not trying to compare ourselves to the world, we’re just asking you to put yourself in that position. It’s really painful to see. It hurts me when I know my brothers and sisters [in the Christian music industry] are having such a hard time.”
