Some secular music is nice, some is awful. Some Jewish music is nice, some is awful. Music is music. If people who are listening to the secular music and like a particular melody, start listening to Jewish-themed music because the lyrics are set to those familiar and pleasant tunes, do you truly feel this is a shanda and a cherpah? What makes a sound “treif” exactly? It is usually the lyrics that are treif in so many of these songs. I think most people can recognize the difference between pretty music and noise. And if the pretty music has lyrics set to it that raise it to a level beyond mere palatable sound, what harm has been done? Listen to some of the music by today’s Jewish “superstars.” Those melodies are VERY secular-sounding. They still sound great with words from Tehillim or the like in them.
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