Elias Light

He felt like there was no Christian music that worked well outside of a church environment.

He wanted to make music for the gym that was Christian, music for beach parties, stuff like that.

Yeah, so I think so much of what we've seen in the last 10 years of pop or whatever has been kind of borrowing the...

drums, especially from Atlanta hip hop.

So it's kind of like this trap pop sound, you know, like very busy high hats with like some nice keyboards.

We used to be in this electronic pop duo called Surfaces.

Back during COVID and like the early days of COVID when people started going viral like crazy on TikTok, Surfaces had one of the first really big viral pandemic hits.

And he talked about sort of in interviews, he would try to like smuggle Christian ideas into the lyrics while he was with Surfaces.

But eventually he started writing his own explicitly Christian music.

And yeah, so he's had a ton of success.

He's done over a billion streams just this year alone.

Wow.

And that is kind of his thing is like it is very pop friendly in sound.

If you listen closely, you are going to be like, oh, this guy's, you know, he's talking about his love for God and stuff like that.

But if you just kind of are scrolling through social media and you happen to find his music in a dance challenge, you may not even notice that it's

It could be Glass Animals or some other kind of pop group.

Yeah, I mean, I think one of the things that's so fascinating about kind of the modern music industry, and we've seen this with K-pop, we've seen this with Latin music, we've seen this with country, is the industry used to be super siloed, right?

And there were kind of these walls drawn between genres.

Rock fans listen to rock, rap fans listen to rap.

There wasn't a lot of mingling, right?