![]() ![]() The Jesus Hypothesis features a duet with Flamy Grant, “Boys Will Be Girls” inspired by a friend coming out to Webb. It was such a juxtaposition of things that needed to be together.” Flamy was doing worship songs as church trauma recovery. “I always thought Matthew was a genius of a musician and songwriter. “Thinking out who the record was for, I wound up talking to Flamy,” Webb says. Webb, who left Christian music after a “deconstructing” of his faith, returned with his own new album “going back into the rubble of deconstruction and sifting through to look for things that are beautiful and meaningful and true that you want to bring with you.” In addition to Webb, the album features queer Christian artists Jennifer Knapp and Semler, as well as queer country singer Adeem the Artist. “That’s when I realized, from all the comments, all the people saying ‘I feel so seen, I feel so safe here’-I connected the dots that my drag wasn’t just for me, but for people who felt trapped like I did.” It went viral, racking up nearly a million views. But when his pastor asked him to give a sermon in drag, Blake made a Tik Tok video to practice. I started a livestream where I would dress up in drag and cover songs.”įlamy Grant was created just for Blake’s own sanity. “Instead of doing a sourdough starter, I watched lots of makeup tutorials. His first time as an adult in drag was dressing up as a witch for Halloween in 2019. I realized that if I’m going to belong in that community, I’d have to suppress it.” I’ve always been interested in drag, but as a kid, I didn’t know it was drag. “I was a worship leader up until last year really, the last decade in more progressive churches. “I grew up super evangelical, fundamental in the Bile Belt,” Blake says. But Matthew Blake, who performs musical drag under the moniker Flamy Grant-”a shame-slaying, hip-swaying, singing-songwriting drag queen”-served in that role for 22 years. The irony is that Derek Webb, former lead singer of Christian music stalwarts Caedmon’s Call, was never a worship leader. The album it’s on, Flamy Grant’s Bible Belt Baby, still sits at #1 on the album chart. In response to that missive from Christian musician and failed Congressional candidate Sean Feucht sent out to his 100,000 followers, fans made one of those collaborations, “Good Day,” hit the top spot on the Christian iTunes chart briefly last night. Chapman herself approved of the cover (and will profit handsomely from it, in both direct royalties and exposure) and because her original was a Grammy-winning Top 10 hit.The tweet read: “If you’re wondering the end goal of the deconstruction movement in the church, then look no further than former worship leader new collab with a drag queen. The article was widely derided both because Ms. Luke Combs’ hit “Fast Car” is a cover of a 1980s hit by Tracy Chapman, and the Washington Post published an article saying that a White male star was getting successes that would have been denied to a Black, LGBTQ woman such as Ms. ![]() iTunes chart also is a country music song that has been at the center of a racial criticism. “While I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far,” he said. Aldean said in a statement posted to Twitter. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it - and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage,” Mr. “These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There were other charges of love for “sundown towns,” where blacks dared not enter after the sun set during the Jim Crow “lynch law” era. SEE ALSO: CMT pulls music video for Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ “Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road / Around here, we take care of our own … I recommend you don’t / Try that in a small town,” the song states. The video also includes images of riots and police-protester clashes. The song, backed by a video that went online last week, skewers the riots and rampant crime in America’s big cities, saying it wouldn’t happen in rural America.īut according to Vulture, the video features news footage projected on the Maury County courthouse, where a lynching took place in the 1920s. ![]() One Twitter user responded with a GIF of Barbra Streisand and the word “oops,” referring to what’s been called “the Streisand effect,” a term used for when efforts to hide or censor information backfire by raising awareness of that information. ![]()
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