Planet Boom is about, not at all, we’re about and a power behind the meaning of the song, it
Jesus and we’re trying to reach a generation. wasn’t just a fun song for fun’s sake, but there
We just want to be relevant to society and to a was power behind it and people left saying that
group of youths or collective of young people the DJ set was actually significant. That you’re
that are listening to this music and are just so able to have that kind of a party without the
lost in it. To be able to be relevant but with that high of drugs or alcohol but with the high of
message of, it’s not all bout searching for an the Holy Spirit, that’s the most- high as I would
answer, it’s not all about the next party or the
put it. The main reason Boom is doing what it’s
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next relationship, there is actually a deeper
doing is because there is a sound within youth
purpose than that. And if we can be all things them weren’t Planetshakers people and they ministry that we want to be able to get out to
to all people and share that message in a way didn’t necessarily know the songs, but there our young people and let them take it home to
that they are actually going to listen to and was something about the beat or the feel that worship and praise God in their bedrooms and
relate to, then that’s amazing and as far as I’m grabbed them straightaway. So, the DJ set was living rooms.
concerned, we’ve done our job. Because that’s easy because everyone was just so into the what got me, that’s why I’m so passionate about music. But, there was a power behind the lyrics
At the same time, we want to empower the
that, that’s what got me in the first place. That’s
why I was just so sold out for Jesus growing
up, because I had those musical moments
specifically that I could just grab onto.
I remember in high school there was a season
of my life that was very dark and very lonely and
angst-y, and there was music accompanied
with that. There is always music accompanying
the season you are going through. But it was
very dark and angst-y music that I was listening
to, and that was just fueling that darkness in
me. Finding those Christian artists that were
similar to the guys I was listening to that were
able to speak to me in such a way. There was a
message in there that kind of shook me a little
bit and pushed me back in the right direction.
I’m not saying that’s all that Planet Boom is, but
there is definitely an element of that in Planet
Boom music, to be able to reach those guys
who are out in the clubs or out on the streets
doing the things that they’re doing and say, “It’s
awesome that you’re listening to this music, but
Jesus is even more awesome. Why can’t we
do both?”
Recently we had our Victoria Regional Youth
Alive event, and I actually went there to DJ, funny
enough. I played a bunch of Planetshakers
songs that were kind of mashed up with an
electronic dance song, and it was so interesting
to be able to see the reaction of all these young
people. It wasn’t so much the Planetshakers
songs that drew them in, because a lot of
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