Well lately I've been reading the swerve blog from Lifechurch.tv and something Craig Groeschel has been talking a lot about lately is changing your habits so that you can be more creative, more alert to knew things, and escape from any ruts you may be in. So I took his advice and today I bought the new Kirk Franklin CD. This is a very different genre from what I normally listen to but I am enjoying it.

However, I was struck by one thing in particular. I downloaded the Album from iTunes and included was a music video for the title track. In the video Kirk Franklin is a boxer and spends 100% of the time with his shirt off.

Kirk Franklin is ripped.

I'm working on a theory about Christian musicians. I first developed this theory a few years ago when I saw a Carmen (you may or may not know him but he was basically the first Christian music superstar) video. In the video he was a boxer (sound familiar) and spent 90% of the time with his shirt off and he was ripped. Ergo, the theory: if you are a Christian Musician who happens to be ripped and you want people to see how ripped you are, you have to make a video where you box.

You see, as a secular musician you can just take off your shirt. For example, Scott Wylan, Keith Sweat, 50 Cent, etc. Christian musicians can't do this because they are Christians and that wouldn't be appropriate. However, if your ripped, what's the point if you can't show it off? So this is the only "legitimate" way to make sure people know you are ripped.

So, in conclusion, ripped Christian musicians box in their video. I'm a few sit-ups and push-ups away from being ripped myself so I'm writing a song called "God Punched Me in The Lip When We Were Boxing Together Just Like Jacob." So you can look for my video in the next few months.


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4 comments:

GiGi said...

I always knew you were nuts. This just proves my theory.

Sarah McCrory said...

So, let me get this straight, Christians can not take their shirts off unless they are boxing? I was not aware of that. It seems to me that there are a few other things Christians (men) can do with their shirts off, like... skiing (the water variety), swimming, sleeping, etc. So, I think you could be the trailblazer in this area and make the first "non-boxing, ripped guy Christian video". However, if you use any of my ideas, I will expect some sort of compensation.

Jared McCrory said...

I wish we had a music video of you doing leg-lifts at the beach that time. Shirt on or shirt off, that was some funny stuff dude....

Jared McCrory said...

BTW, I had been contemplating implementing a push-up/sit-up regimen in preparation for our trip to the beach, but then I realized that would still do nothing for my chest hair dilemma so I decided what's the use...