By EyeMB
“We really wanted go into this album making sure that there was hope throughout. That is certainly something that is lacking in our generation. To have hope on a deeper level is not only absent from music, but from the pop culture in general.”
–Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman
Everyone knows “A Walk to Remember”. Who can ever forget this movie? Aside from its memorable romantic scenes, its theme songs are really inspiring. When I first heard the song “Dare You to Move”, I know that it created an unexplainable impact for me.
Switchfoot is an American rock band that springs from the state of California. The band members are Jon Foreman, Tim, Chad, and Jerome. But hey! They didn’t just decide to be an ordinary rock and roll band so simply make music for the sake of money and popularity.
Do you know that they are Christians? It doesn’t seem to be obvious, but they are. The band is not denying their faith in Christ since their music inspires a lot of people. The songs make sense and spiritually applicable. As reviewed by one Christian site, the lyrics created by Switchfoot are intelligent, thoughtful, and rational and will not give you a hint of hopelessness and depression. They are Christians and their faith is clearly expressed through their music.
Jon Foreman admitted that being an ordinary rock and roll band is pointless. The band desires to give the accurate view of Christian perspective through their music. Most of all, Foremen tried to emphasize the message of hope that we had in Christ for renewal, completion, wholeness, and meaning. Generally they’ve got a message of hope wrapped in imaginative music. Not a blind hope that ignores and denies the difficulties of life. Rather, a real solid hope built upon a strong foundation of faith.
Yes, life is hard but the album of Switchfoot infuses hope on a deeper level to reach the general crowd, and the pop culture. But this is Biblical hope, in his song “Let that Be Enough” he read Isaiah 40 as an introduction.
As I quoted this on Switchfoot’s review:
“It starts out ‘Comfort, comfort ye my people,’” he recites. “Then it goes into talking about being basically a voice in the desert, saying ‘Prepare a way for the Lord. Make straight a highway for our God.’ That He will raise up the valleys, and bring down the mountains.”
The band didn’t want to be boxed as purely Christian when it comes to music. So when it comes to creating music, the band sees to it that they’re doing a no ordinary thing. Switchfoot matches clever lyrics with unforeseen musical phrasings to produce a rambling yet harmonious rock-pop dish. They try to pull different sources of musical influence like a combination of R&B and soul.
While they are striving to improve their lyrics, they feel the pressure to excel in all aspects of their lives while in the pursuit of following the path of Jesus Christ. They want to go beyond and reach out the unreachable, the last, the least, and the forgotten…. those who have lost hope, those who don’t recognize the existence of our loving Father, and those who refuse to accept Jesus Christ as Our Savior. –
