Sandra Oduro Many are those who have pounded young musicians for feeding the public with music full of profanity over the years.While most of the people, i.e music lovers enjoy the rhythm of the various music forms; some also condemn the lyrics fully laden with all sorts of profane messages.

It is agreed that artistes, like journalists, are known to educate, inform and entertain their fans, but of late the music industry is unfortunately going to the dogs.
This is because today?s artistes, as young as they are, do not live up to expectation as they deliver messages on the wings of music, which do not conform to the cultural values of the people.

Most times the artistes, composers and other stakeholders do not care about the negative effect of what they feed the public with.Their first consideration in coming out with their albums is monetary. Anything else is secondary or very remote, to say the least.In this regard, many traditionalists and moralists heaved a sigh of relief with the emergence of gospel music.

In the wake of the emergence of this type of music, it was thought that the problem of profanity in lyrics had come to an end but alas! an element which the people detest in secular music is gradually but steadily creeping into present-day gospel music.Gospel music, as it is widely accepted, is one that is out to preach the sermon based on good morals. It is also meant to enliven our everyday worship in giving praises to the most high.

Apart from soothing the ?dislocated? heart and bringing back lost religious spirit to the afflicted and the disi llusioned, gospel music is intended to inculcate in the people the spirit of righteousness. It started quite beautifully, restoring the confidence of many that gospel music was bringing or had brought back sweet memories of the good things that one could derive from the path of glory.

But sadly enough, sooner than later, the gospel music is being made to join the bandwagon of profane lyrical presentation.As it has become a fashion these days that all albums are backed by video clips, the gospel musicians have joined the fray in trying to advertise their brand of music to feed the music-loving public through the medium of video clips.

What we see in the video clips of some gospel albums are very disgusting as the type of dresses advertised in the clips do not go with the spirit and letter of the religious messages that they churn out of the studios.
Some of the video clips depict fashions that seek to corrupt the younger generation.

Instead of endeavouring to leave a legacy of uprightness and good religious tendencies, the gospel musicians, not all of course, are in a rush to make it big money-wise to the point that they do not care about what effects their handicraft impacts on the public.

Let?s face it. It is important to note that if efforts are not made to stem this unreligious tide, Ghana would live to regret as the social and moral fibre of the country would be eroded rather fast, much to the disadvantage of the people.

By all means music-lovers must be fed with gospel music but for God?s sake nothing blasphemous should be made to spoil the otherwise good intentions of the artistes. They must be encouraged to polish their work to the highest possible level to uplift the spirit of listeners.