My First Article… YEAH! American Idol

Ξ May 13th, 2008 | → 2 Comments | ∇ Hollywood |

I admit it. I’m an American Idol junky. I started watching when Mandisa was on. What season was that? I’m not sure why I watched it for the first time but I was hooked. I think it was because I could appreciate the singers and what they had to go through, being a singer myself. I remember seeing Mandisa and thinking, “Here is this big beautiful Christian woman on American Idol and she can sing like no one I have ever heard.” Everything she was given (including the country week song that eventually was her falling), was sung with a clear, perfectly pitched tone. She was voted off and I was very sad. But I kept watching. Elliot was my guy after Mandisa. But UGH… I was so disgusted by that season’s outcome, that I thought that this had to all be a farce.
Next season came and I watched. Chris Sligh!!! Another Christian Singer. Truthfully… not Mandisa but I was still cheering for him never-the-less. He was the only contestant that I ever voted for. I even got on the American Idol website and went into the chat rooms. (I know, I know) I actually learned a lot about him from there. I thought he was humorous, Christian, big guy, Christian, pretty good singer, Christian, and a really nice guy! Did I say he was a Christian too? Oh, I guess I did. He got voted off and I quit watching American Idol. By then, my family was hooked and still watching but I… would conveniently do something else during that time. My family asked, when they saw the previews for the next season’s idol, if I was going to watch it. I said yes. I was looking for that next Christian to root for. This season is different for me though. I saw some of them singing Christian songs, (HEY! Did you see when they sang Shout to the Lord?) but I just wasn’t fully aware or something! I listened to their voices and I judged them according to what I heard. (Honestly, I was definitely hoping that some of them were NOT going to be the next American Idol) I wondered why I was not concerned with the Christian winning this year.

My answer is… Hollywood. Though there are Christians out there, (Kirk Cameron to name one) it’s a mess! I mean, that is what Kirk is doing now. He is out there witnessing to Hollywood. I think that you have to be pretty planted in The Word and the Lord to live in all of that. It seems that fame and money changes a person. (Big surprise!) I think that there is a lot of compromise. It messes up a majority of the young people that go there. So I wonder when a Christian goes to a place like American Idol, are they naïve in thinking that things won’t change for them? I wonder. Or do they think that they will be a witness to them?

Remember Carrie Underwood? Is she a Christian? According to this article, she says that she is. I’ve not doubt that it is true but she seems to have made some compromises.

I wish she would have stuck to Jesus Take the Wheel. Is she the worst example, nah, but you get the idea.

It looks like Jordan Sparks is doing a good job of keeping morals so far. She looks like she is just singing about romance. Like every other teenager in America. No nudity, heavy kissing or anything else of the kind. Good for her. I hope she can keep it up!

A bit off topic but speaking of teenagers. Miley Cyrus. She is convinced that she will not become another Brittney and others. See her interview with Barbara Walters.

I hope not but than there are those pictures, for the sake of “Art”. Compromise. Ahhhh… those Wonderful World of Disney, kids. Sorry, Miley. Why are you so embarrassed if you didn’t have anything to be ashamed about? Why even put yourself in that situation? Did you think the photos you posed for wouldn’t resurface? Okay, so in conclusion, if my daughter wanted to become an American Idol (or Disney kid), what would I do? Good question. Under 18, I wouldn’t let her. Does that sound too harsh? Nah… I’m just doing my job. After 18… I would do a lot of praying and cling to the verse that says, “Train up a child in the way she should go, so when she grows old, she will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6

What would you do? Do you think that a Christian should watch a show that is called American IDOL?

Additional verses that I would put with this article are Luke 18:25, Job 16:18-19, Luke 12:15, Exodus 20:4.

 

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