Oh! Gravity Video Interview

Short Interview with Switchfoot on set of their video, "Oh! Gravity"

http://www.switchfoot.com
Courtesy: http://www.amazon.com

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Transcript:
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Jon: My name is Jon Foreman, I play in a band called Switchfoot, and this is Oh! Gravity.

*Oh! Gravity. plays*

Jon: When we first started writing and recording Oh! Gravity, we were not even thinking about a project.

That attitude kind of carried through the whole project. It was just kind of a natural thing where we didn't really set out to achieve anything, we were just kind of making music for ourselves.

Gravity is the physical attraction between two bodies and it's basically asking the laws of physics why we, on a social and political plane, can't really keep it together.

If you look at the headlines everyday, you see things falling apart.

Basically disobeying the laws of physics.

I feel like for me, this is kind of a collection of the last three years. You know and I feel like as a band we've kind of got our, our thing that we do really well as a five of us. We know where we're going, we know where we're headed.

I think the theme for this record could be summed up with not so much why do bad things happen to good people, but why do good things happen to bad people?
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[mariahmarie111]

life of ryan

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Watch this link on Youtube - /watch?v=LEctio_aVHA

Clearly in the first part of the interview, Jon Foreman defines music as a device for getting viewpoints across barriers (such as religious ones). And lo and behold, Christian ideas can be found laced into the lyrics of Switchfoot songs.

Jon also talks about music waking people up, and by that, he means to wake them up to the truth of God. Being put in the genre of "Christian music" would alienate them from the people they are trying to reach

[arladanielle]

i love this album

[twiotterluv]

i never said that their faith wasnt chrisitian i wasn't talking about them INDIVIDUALLY in which ofcourse they are christian i was talkign about the band and also " openly play christian music" their not hiding their faith Jon Foreman himself usually explains where the inspirtation from the songs come from i was just explaing that they are not a christian band but hec they do have LOADS! of christian context in their music taken from the bible sometimes even

[SuperEwokDude]

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this is bob copy and paste bob and soon he will take over youtube

[SuperEwokDude]

They are Christians, but the don't play openly Christian music.

[twiotterluv]

Thank you :) im glad soemoen knows

[dalf22]

you are right, they are not a christian band. Jon told that like a hundred of times, but their faith (not in a religious point of view) is the christian.

[twiotterluv]

Switchfoot is not a CHRISTIAN band!!!!!!!!! for godness sake makes me wonder how much pl really know them! i mean im insane about them mayebthats why i know Jon Foreman has said 474747 ttimes over and over they are not a Christian band nd they shouldnt be LABELED it exludes ppl that way they are indivudually in a religous point of view chrsititan but NOT a band thats christians

[velocityangel87]

gravity! why can't we, seem to get it together?