History Music / CreedBand

-->-- "Higher"

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-->--'''"Higher"'''

They reunited in 2009 and, surprisingly enough, still [[{{Yarling}} sounded]] pretty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZejtZI6JzY good]]. They did a short tour followed by a brand, spankin' new album that some music critics said heralded the end times, before going on indefinite hiatus.

Over the next few years, [[FaceOfTheBand Scott Stapp]] let fame go to his head and got loopier and loopier in terms of antics. They split not long after ''Weathered'', their last album for 8 years.

3/4ths of the band would go on to form Music/AlterBridge, [[SurprisinglyImprovedSequel a much more embraced]] rock act. Stapp did a solo album and got in trouble with the cops before dropping off of the face of the earth for a while.

* ChristianRock[=/=]NotChristianRock: It's arguable which one they are, at least in some circles. If they are the former, then they're definitely the most successful Christian rock band ever. They never followed the pattern "Christian Rock": not on a Christian Music label, little mention on CCM radio, etc. Even their website mentioned that they were pretty open to whichever God was the real one. Plus there's all of the "Getting drunk, sloshing through concerts, and fighting with other bands" thing that kind of kills the debate. Most of the Christian influence seems to have been Scott Stapp's doing (he had grown up in a religious household and was forbidden from listening to rock music, with the exception of Music/ElvisPresley and only because his mother was a fan); when the rest of the band formed Music/AlterBridge after Stapp left, the religious messages in the music were greatly downplayed.

* {{Yarling}}: Scott Stapp is one of the more notorious employers of this singing technique. More than the [[NotChristianRock Christian undertones]], this is the band's main target of contempt.

* ChristianRock[=/=]NotChristianRock: It's arguable which one they are, at least in some circles. If they are the former, then they're definitely the most successful Christian rock band ever. They never followed the pattern "Christian Rock": not on a Christian Music label, little mention on CCM radio, etc. Even their website mentioned that they were pretty open to whichever God was the real one. Plus there's all of the "Getting drunk, sloshing through concerts, and fighting with other bands" thing that kind of kills the debate. Most of the Christian influence seems to have been Scott Stapp's doing (he had grown up in a religious household and was forbidden from listening to rock music, with the exception of Music/ElvisPresley and only because his mother was a fan); when the rest of the band formed Music/AlterBridge after Stapp left, the religious messages in the music were greatly downplayed. Whatever the case, you still gotta hand it to them. Getting music with a religious message on top 40 radio is rarely an easy task. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} It'd take some kinda]] [[MemeticMutation tactical genius...]]

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Most of their songs are around a 4, sometimes a 5. A few of their songs go a little heavier, with songs like 'Fear', 'Overcome', 'What If', and a few more going up to a 6 or 7. 'Bullets' is around 7.

* ChristianRock[=/=]NotChristianRock: It's arguable which one they are, at least in some circles. If they are the former, then they're definitely the most successful Christian rock band ever. They never followed the pattern "Christian Rock": not on a Christian Music label, little mention on CCM radio, etc. Even their website mentioned that they were pretty open to whichever God was the real one. Plus there's all of the "Getting drunk, sloshing through concerts, and fighting with other bands" thing that kind of kills the debate.
** Most of the Christian influence seems to have been Scott Stapp's doing (he had grown up in a religious household and was forbidden from listening to rock music, with the exception of Music/ElvisPresley and only because his mother was a fan); when the rest of the band formed Music/AlterBridge after Stapp left, the religious messages in the music were greatly downplayed.
** Whatever the case, you still gotta hand it to them. Getting music with a religious message on top 40 radio is rarely an easy task. [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} It'd take some kinda]] [[MemeticMutation tactical genius...]]

* {{Jerkass}}: Stapp's nasty attitude due to his until-recently-undiagnosed bipolar disorder was a huge factor in the band's temporary disbanding, [[http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/27/creed-singer-scott-stapp-s-fall-from-grace-from-40-million-albums-sold-to-living-in-a-holiday-inn.html and it got much worse before it got better.]]

* {{Yarling}}: Scott Stapp is one of the more notorious employers of this singing technique. More that the [[NotChristianRock Christian undertones]], this is the band's main target of contempt.

* TheAlcoholic: Stapp. At one point, it got so out of hand that concert goers ''sued them'' because he was too drunk to perform properly.

They reunited in 2009 and, surprisingly enough, still [[{{Yarling}} sounded]] pretty [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZejtZI6JzY good]]. They did a short tour followed by a brand, spankin' new album that some music critics said heralded the end times.

* FollowTheLeader: Critics often accuse them of ripping off Music/PearlJam, especially Eddie Vedder's [[{{Yarling}} style of singing]].

* {{Yarling}}: Scott Stapp's method of singing, and consequently, one of the [[NotChristianRock many]], ''[[WalkingShirtlessScene many]]'' reasons people love to hate the band.

** Most of the Christian influence seems to have been Scott Stapp's doing; when the rest of the band formed Music/AlterBridge after Stapp left, the religious messages in the music were greatly downplayed.

* NotChristianRock: There's still debate over whether or not Creed is a Christian band or writes generally secular lyrics with Christian themes.

Creed was an extremely popular {{Post-Grunge}} band that sold a lot of music in the late '90s to early 2000s. Chances are, if you were between 12 and 20 during this time, you owned one of their albums. They formed in Florida around '95 and released their first album, ''My Own Prison'', in '97. Two years later, they dropped ''Human Clay'' and you couldn't turn on a radio in America without hearing [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J16lInLZRms "Higher"]].

* {{Post-Grunge}}