I used to look forward to the annual release of WoW Worship, but no longer. The focus has changed in the five years between 1999's WoW Worship Blue and 2004's WoW Worship Red. The series used to be a yearbook, chronicling more than 30 of the year's most popular, up-and-coming praise songs sung in churches today, and the first three editions never duplicated material from one year to the next.
With the release of 2003's WoW Worship Yellow, the series was reinvented to feature the industry's most popular recording artists singing their favorite worship songs"either from their own recent recordings or else exclusively for WoW. This was likely done to sell more albums, although WoW Worship sold well before resorting to celebrity marketing. Red continues where Yellow left off, including a nearly identical roster of artists on two discs. Ten of its 34 songs have been featured on previous WoW Worship compilations, though performed by different artists. At least another 10 have been featured prominently on similar best-selling, two-disc sets over the last five years. Is there nothing new worth sharing?
There are no surprises here. Red relies solely on familiar favorites. Many do represent songs from worship projects released in the last year. There are also 12 new recordings (with bold track numbers in the sidebar listing). It's not to say the new renditions aren't good or enjoyable, but most of them feel "phoned in." The only thing setting these overly simplistic performances apart from the average worship team is marquee value and production quality, not creativity or inspiration.
The bottom line here for both fans and critics of this once great series is that it's more of the same. It's to the point where it seems less about worship itself, and more about the artists involved and the popularity of worship. Rest assured that anyone who enjoyed Yellow will equally appreciate Red, and that record labels will continue to create projects like this as long as people favor name-dropping and manufactured worship.
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good worship music| Posted October 07, 2008
this is a good worship disc. I like the songs by jeremy riddle, nicole c. mullen, and jars of clay. all of the songs are good praise songs! good job! wow is awesome
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