{"id":13534,"date":"2024-11-22T18:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T01:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13534"},"modified":"2024-12-07T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T01:06:05","slug":"gregorian-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/22\/gregorian-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregorian Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/business\/lo-fi-music-conquered-youtube-now-its-got-a-rising-religious-niche\/?utm_term=onsherwood&amp;utm_source=snacks&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=snacks_20241016&amp;utm_content=a94990d592d794ebea062f20304ef75c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Sherwood<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lo-fi music conquered YouTube. Now it\u2019s got a rising religious niche.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knew lo-fi mixed with snippets of Gregorian chant could be so good \u2014 and profitable?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by Sophia Smith Galer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.robinhood.com\/static_content\/mwphzyq69oso\/en-US\/assets\/files\/grMnWJvt15aOBSLdoEjfx_1_getty-images-158088108.jpg\" alt=\"One Nun Praying Near Group of Nuns\" style=\"width:386px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>One Nun Praying Near Group of Nuns<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I needed some sweet baptized beats,\u201d one commenter wrote. \u201cIf anyone could say a prayer for the health of my children, I would appreciate it,\u201d wrote another. \u201cI will say a quick prayer for you both, Maggie and Neza,\u201d replied someone called BF. \u201cGod bless you, everyone listening!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since it first streamed a year ago, a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qd93UD1j37Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube video of a cartoon man<\/a> reading a Bible and smoking a cigar on his porch to the sound of piano-dusted beats has been viewed 1.5M times. Its popularity means YouTube\u2019s algorithm easily surfaces it whenever somebody searches for \u201clo-fi,\u201d or low-fidelity music, the DIY genre notable for its analogue warmth and looped beats \u2014 and, in this video\u2019s unusual case, snippets of Gregorian chant.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gitnux.org\/lo-fi-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to Gitnux, lo-fi has seen about a 50% increase<\/a>\u00a0in searches over the past year, with lo-fi hip-hop increasing 200% in streams. The most prominent lo-fi account, Lofi Girl, has over 14M followers, and new accounts are constantly popping up. Like classical music, lo-fi can calm the listener and provide a soothing backdrop for studying or relaxing. But plaintive Latin hymns aren\u2019t historically mixed with lo-fi beats, and that\u2019s exactly why the genre has made the brains behind @catholiclofi thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood.news\/business\/lo-fi-music-conquered-youtube-now-its-got-a-rising-religious-niche\/?utm_term=onsherwood&amp;utm_source=snacks&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=snacks_20241016&amp;utm_content=a94990d592d794ebea062f20304ef75c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Sherwood<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Sherwood Lo-fi music conquered YouTube. Now it\u2019s got a rising religious niche. Who knew lo-fi mixed with snippets of Gregorian chant could be so good \u2014 and profitable? by Sophia Smith Galer I needed some sweet baptized beats,\u201d one commenter wrote. \u201cIf anyone could say a prayer for the health of my children, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}