After reading these comments, I took a look for myself at the article to see what the fuss is about.
Yeah, I don't particularly care for it either.
It seems voyeuristic/touristy.
Like when your parents take the bus tour to the Great Pyramid and rave how lovely/amazing it was, and what a sight. . . .
In the meantime. . . . behind the bus. . . . in Cairo. . . .
. . . . . lies rot and filth and stench and unescapable misery for thousands and thousands of people.
But the Pyramids were such an architectural marvel and our tour guide was a really nice guy!
Also, if NERD IN THE BRAIN thinks his MIL has fully accepted him and has NO EXPECTATION WHATSOEVER of him ever converting, he does not understand the power a cult has over it's members.
NITB: Your MIL (if she's an honest-to-John JW) believes you are dead meat at the Big A (which is coming SOON).
Sure, she'll deny it, or say "Only Big J can judge," but as of now, you are worldly, dangerous, and doomed.
How do I know this?
Because this is EXACTLY how I was programmed to think and feel by this cult.
[Edit to add]: I also must call into question NITB's statement that the music was "beautiful."
Are you sure you were in a Kingdom hall?