Made The Mistake Of Looking Up The Oh Hellos On TikTok.

Made the mistake of looking up the Oh Hellos on TikTok.

It's all basically...

Imaginary person: “Aren't the Oh Hellos just some Christian Band? Why do you listen to them?”

Response: The person singing along to song with enthusiasm. (As if to say, it doesn't matter because they make actual good music or sometimes “It doesn't matter, music is what you make of it!”

And like listen, generally that's not really a problem, I think. The thing rubbing me the wrong is that... The Oh Hellos are not a "Christian Band". They are christian, they do use religious allegory, but like it is more multifaceted than that. On the religious side they often explore faith and deconstruct ideas they learned in church.

But also their use of Christianity is often for framing and comparison. Bitter Water is a song about a toxic relationship using wormwood (a healing, but potentially deadly herb) from the bible as a comparison. Constellations uses the Tower of Babylon as a metaphor for being stuck in your ways and causing damage because of it. Like it's so multifaceted.

(Not to mention that Christianity isn't all they reference at least in their most recent albums. They also reference greek mythology quite a bit. But that might be because they're using the four winds.)

Anyway, just they're so good at writing lyrics that bring together so many ideas and I just want the take on them to be less “Who cares if they make Christian Music, they're still good lol” and more about like how the lyrics become more and more meaningful as you listen to and pick them apart.