Hallelujah! Contemporary “Christian” Music is DYING! Insipid. Cheap. Inane. Vacuous. It lived too long.
That’s such a shallow criticism. In every genre of music, there is what you described.
There is also some very deep, biblically sound, excellent musically and vocally music in Contemporary Christian. Music.
As a musician, and a Believer, I’m very picky about both lyrics and music. You also have sub genres, Christian rap (yes, and I’m not talking about the ones who have run of the milk generic lyrics), Christian country, and Christian bluegrass.
Was totally and utterly blessed by a concert of worship filled with the gospel message at a recent concert.
Preach it. sister.
The frequencies are still CCM stations and are very much still on the air. More like local radio is dying of any genre for product piped in from national networks.
Insipid. Cheap. Inane. Vacuous.
Like many things...some of it is and some of it isn't.
CCM is very much alive where I live. Some of it is as you say, but there is a lot of good stuff also. My church uses mostly CCM in worship, and it can be very powerful.