Political correctness is shoved out the window when you examine gnostic writers/poets, singers, and visual artists. It's not that they don't care about selling their work, it's that they don't care, period, about anything except expressing themselves. The drive and need to produce their works is overshadowed by anything else in their lives, even if their greatness is only discovered posthumously. Talking about showing your breasts on TV or abortion or paying clergy for absolution is a bit off putting. Pop singers have it easier. They sing about love's many phases of adoration/jealousy/breakup while those with eyes to see and ears to hear very often have the mouth to back it up. Their efforts are not often well received unless they have other more acceptable(and accessible) music to even out their wildness of spirit.
Jewel's song called "Jesus Loves You" from her album called This Way, fits the bill of a gnostic anthem, promoting the greatest sense of freedom for the human spirit possible and calling into question all the notions literal religions push upon our society.
They say that Jesus loves you
What about me?
They say that money breaks you
I still wanna see
They say you're only half alive
Till you give extra whitening a try
Well i wanna see, I wanna see
What can you do for me?
Showing ta-tas on the TV is OK
I wanna be OK, too
Having my picture in a magazine makes me special
How special are you?
They say if i donate, even I
Can buy a lot in heaven before i die
Well I wanna see, I wanna see
What can u do for me?
I want someone else to pack my lunch
Gonna get get someone else to pull the punch
Pay a psychic for romance
Gonna pay a priest for a...
Will u give me a second chance
Will u give me a second chance
They say abortion will send u straight to a fiery hell
That is if the fanatics don't beat Satan to the kill
It's not what i can do for anybody
It's what their body can do for me
Well I wanna see, I wanna see
What can u do for me?
They say that Jesus loves u
What about me?
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