My friend Pier — er, “The Portender” gave me a heads up about this video. It’s arguably even worse (or better?) than “Jesus Is My Friend,” and features quasi-break dancing/ pop-and-locking and even some salsa moves. After doing some extensive research (mostly via a quick scan of Wikipedia) I have learned that the group responsible for this travesty in song and dance may be a cult. So there’s a good chance orthodox/mainstream Christianity bears no blame for this. If “The Way International” is indeed a cult, then maybe my headline should read “Bad Cult-ish Music”; but then that might generate the wrong kind of traffic… And there’s still a good chance that the song in itself could be confused for actual Christian music.
Back to the video, I’ll sum things up in one word: weird. Maybe even too weird to be amusing… but I’ll leave you to judge. Here’s the video.
If this first link doesn’t work, try this one, which is from “The Soup” on the E! channel.
If you prefer, you can see the entire video (I know!) at myspace videos, at this link.
October 8, 2008 at 9:28 am |
Sadly, the cult must have taken action and removed the video from YouTube. Silly cults!
October 8, 2008 at 12:12 pm |
Thanks for the heads up, I found a replacement video from E! that’s not as long as the first, but still enough to get the idea…
October 11, 2008 at 1:42 pm |
http://www.theway.org/Current/M07/Mar07Hi4.html
Here is a link from the Way’s website that has the original video, and many more similar videos!
October 11, 2008 at 3:52 pm |
Thanks for the link! If you follow the link, click on “Current News” then “March 2007 Productions Concert” and select the broadcast quality (high or low), and then you’ll finally be able to see “The Renewed Mind Is the Key” in all its horrendous glory.