While musical artists left and right reach for more and more power and control when it comes to the music business, the Christian rock band, Relient K is taking an alternate route. It seems almost too good to be true to have found this Diamond in the rough. While other bands claim it's all about the music and turn around and turn their success into a franchise (cough, Good Charlotte, cough) for Relient K, it isn't a lie told just to keep the 'hardcore' fans. "We don't try to be a band that's on MTV," says Jon Schneck, the guitarist. Despite their lack of trying, the success of their 2004 smash hit Be My Escape earned them a spot on the popular television network's video countdowns and into the conscious of teens everywhere. Most people probably didn't catch by first (or second or even tenth) listen that the song wasn't about a girl, but someone more divine. If you were one of them, don't worry; you're not alone. It might have been the overly emphasized picture of a girl from the music video. It's "the staple girl of the video," Schneck told me.
Despite the band's sudden success after the release of the single, nothing has changed. "There's never been a point where it felt like all of a sudden we were getting popular," Dave Douglass (the drummer) recalls. Though they recognize the talent of their fellow MTV darlings, they have noticed something that most of America has most likely also caught on to. No it isn't that the famed Musical Television oddly enough plays more reality shows than music videos. "It's unfortunate," Douglass says. "Wether it's hip-hop, or pop music in general, or rock and roll, or metal, or punk, or whatever you're talking about, I think people have gotten a point when a lot of people are writing, they just want a catchy song. It's like, however many millions of songs and bands out there, very few of them actually attempt to say anything worthwhile. I think it's just the cheapness of music."
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