I do not watch American Idol, I work evenings, if I did not then I would be at church when it is on. That being said, on the way home from work one night I heard on the local Christian music station a song identified as American Idol Contestants that clearly was a praise and worship song that I heard many times before. I could swear that night the the name of Jesus was in the song. I did not think much of it till I came across this video at ThinkChristian.net
If this is from the show, and I have no reason to believe it is not, why did I hear one version from the radio and another from the show. I am shocked that they took Jesus out and put the word Shepard in. Yes, the Lord is my Shepard, but by taking the name of Jesus out they just watered it down so as to say, the Lord is who you want it to be.
I am happy that a great song made it to a secular show like that, but I wonder of the motives, especially when they changed the words.
EDIT AFTER ORIGINAL POST
Ok so on further inspection they did the song again the next night:
At least they got the words right this time, and that may be what I heard on the radio. It is hard to say. It still feels weird a show trying to glorify some new talent singing about the only one that should be glorified.
2 comments:
The version they're playing on the radio is apparently a studio cut... both of the TV performances were very short (as are all the contestant performances on the show... they cut them way down for time). They did indeed say "shepherd" instead of "Jesus" the first night, and then they correctly said "Jesus" the second night and in the studio cut on Christian radio. Whether this was a performance mistake or an intentional change the first night, I guess nobody knows but the contestants and producers. There were actually a few Christian-y moments on that show (the "My Shepherd" night)... the song right before that was about as Gospelly as they come.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not the AI fanatic in my house... that would be my sweet wife. She subjected me to the DVR version of both performances, and then we heard it on the radio last Sunday. I'm not actually even that big of a fan of the song in question, AI version or not. :)
Thanks for the input. Like you I do not care for the show, not much I do care for in TV anymore. It does explain why the different versions...
Bob
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