Berhala Memuji Tuhan?
Hehe .. ok .. bad translation. Should be “Idola Memuji Tuhan?”
Apparently I’m a bit lembap in popular entertainment but the song “Shout to the Lord” apparently was featured not once, but twice, on American Idol. The first time, they had the lyrics amended a bit, perhaps to make it a bit more politically correct ..
.. and the second time, with the original lyrics in place ..
Figured out what’s missing yet?
Apparently quite a few people are ecstatic over this .. and others .. well .. not so enthusiastic. So, camane pendapat hangpa s’mua?
Sivin
I was a little surprised at this ending of American Idol. Questions running in my mind ..
1. what was the thought process of making the decision to include it at the end? And why the edited version and the original version?
2. “Shepherd” or “Jesus” … whatever.. But in USA pop culture is Christianity becoming hip again?
3. How does the reactions of Christians either enthusiastically or skeptically reflect our own biases or blind spots?
4. I wonder what goes on for the “idols” who are singing the lyrics and the audience either live or world wide?
April 15th, 2008 at 7:57 amSteve F.
Plenty of questions on my mind:
1) Are all these American Idol participants Christians?
2) Were there any, say, Muslim participants singing the song?
3) I’m just wondering what if Malaysian Idol asks its participants to sing Nasyid?
April 15th, 2008 at 10:17 amDaniel
Hmm…how is it any different if they sang, say, Bob Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody” or the tried and tested “Amazing Grace”?
Besides being a song that some congregations regularly sing (such as mine, hence the high “weird” factor to Idol singing it), I don’t think there’s anything special, really.
But ah, shouldn’t we have figured it out by now that in a country where 80% of its population claim to be born again Christianity has already been long stripped of its true meaning?
April 16th, 2008 at 8:01 pmSteve F.
Afterthought:
Watching it again, two thoughts came to my mind:
1) Perhaps “Shepherd” was put in as an euphemism for “Jesus”… if so, why did they put “Jesus” back in again?
2) What does it mean when something as (supposedly) secular/’worldly’ as American Idol sings praises to Jesus as Saviour, while supposedly Christian assemblies like Toronto’s West Hill United Church divorced Christ from the church, for fear of offending people?
April 17th, 2008 at 2:58 am