By now, you have to have heard Donald Lawrence’s new single, “YRM (Your Righteous Mind)”, featuring Dorinda Clark Cole.
True to form, Donald Lawrence demonstrates the power of the Word of God put to music, while offering unparalleled songwriting and production (vocals and band).
And it doesn’t hurt AT ALL that Dorinda Clark Cole clobbers the ad libs!
Anyway, the single is available on iTunes NOW.
Listen here–
Who’s grabbin’ it???
Dude is preaching a New Testament word in this. Forgive me EJ but this actually continues the discussion of CCM vs Gospel lyrics. Donald takes the word of God and puts a beat to it, continuing to encourage the saints while remaining relevant to the Holy Scriptures. Take off your natural mind and put on your righteous mind. What a word! This blessed my soul that I am going to ask our choir instructor to learn this. Dorinda, Dorinda, Dorinda. That added whipped ice cream on a sundae. You know you shouldn't do it, but it is so, so good. Thanks D. Lawrence for a thought provoking and fun song.
Yes, I have this song as well...LOVE HEARING THE WORD PUT TO SONG....I'm a singer myself, & while I like to riff like the next, I like to also say something when I sing.....I think that's so vital...& Dorinda is my favorite singer of all time, so I was extra giddy to get my hands on this song lol
I love this! Donald is one of the few in gospel, so I still believe that CCM music has gospel beat when it comes to lyrical content.
Content wise awesome as the Word of God is always, but musically I could have had more of Dorinda singing and less of Donald Talking..just my opinion.
its just an ok song, the word is always good but the song the melody is just ok, and its way too long
Honestly Donald Lawrence is destroying the gospel music community with this song...in a good way that is. Gospel music is falling into that "Mainstream" trap and everything is autotuned folks have the nerve to call it "fresh." His song structure and thought process of melody to lyrics is ingenious and will continue to catapult him into a trailblazer in the gospel community
It's an ok song from DL's well-polished gospel music assembly line. However, it's still human-centered/focused instead of God-centered/focused. MY righteous mind as opposed to the MIND of Christ. As was referenced above, singing the Word of God is always a thumbs up! (Wink!)
I have to agree the lyrics and the message is great but the first 4 min of the song could have been shrunk down to 2 or 3min.
Yes more Dorinda is needed.
This song has to grow on me, from the first listen.
Oh Tam PLEASE! This song is CLEARLY telling you to put on the MIND of Christ. U need to check your motives.
I'm going to model the behavior I'd like to see so.... (((SMILE!!!!)))
Actually I do not think it's a human-centered song. Take off the natural mind and put on the righteous mind. What is the righteous mind, other than that of Jesus Christ?
The message, as you so aptly put: "Take off the natural mind and put on the righteous mind." is a noble, healthy, biblical message. It is a healthy message. It's just not talking about the nature and character of Jesus Christ DIRECTLY. And that's ok. It's just that there's already and OVERABUNDANCE of these types of songs. And if this is ALL (the ONLY kind of gospel music) that a gospel music listener has been exposed to, then he/she would think this was the model of gospel music perfection. There's more. There's better. **message posted with NO HOSTILITY**
I'm definitely grabbing it! I love Donald Lawrence's new music. He's teaching us the word! Most people wouldn't know most scriptures if he didn't put them in his songs.
agreed...this song should be 4:30 TOTAL