by the time it became popular in a more mainstream sense in the early 2010's, evangelicals came back and used this aesthetic towards their own ends. that's the peak Mumford and Son era, and the Lumineers etc and i think where the sentiment expressed in the OP comes from. anyway

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in the 2000's the aesthetic became more apolitical, (generally) not particularly religious, and liberal leaning. perhaps a conscious response to the ways evangelicals had taken over culture in other ways. people were playing with those tropes.

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it's impossible to have a more complicated conversation on this about social media, but this type of music does take influence from US evangelical culture without a doubt - even going back to stuff like Danielson Famile or Sufjan Stevens which was more explicitly christian.

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i’m deleting that post because a lot of people are reading it in ways that i did not intend … because everyone brings their own background and perspective to a post. mine was that of a former music journalist who finds the way religion influences culture and vice versa to be interesting

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the thing to know about millennials (not to speak for all of the class bc it's not some of y'all's truth) but a lot of the bravado was papering over the fact that much of the club was broke

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