![]() ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, an insider told The Post that Aldean’s performance of the song will remain in ABC’s broadcast of the CMA Music Festival, set to air Wednesday at 8 p.m. 4 spot on the site’s trending music videos. Over on YouTube, the music video, which dropped Friday, has over 1.8 million views. The song, which was released May 19, has over 3.8 million Spotify streams. 1 spot on iTunes’ Top Songs and Music Videos charts as of Wednesday evening - despite accusations it’s racist and “pro-lynching.” Perhaps no press is bad press when it comes to Jason Aldean’s controversial song “Try That in a Small Town.”Īldean’s headline-making hit occupies the No. What a summer bummer - where are all the hot bops for 2023?īiden’s very personal business, Shoplifting Inc., and other commentary Professors claim Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ contains ‘coded’ racial language, pictures To see that they’re not alone.Cheap tickets for Atlantic City’s TidalWave Music Festival are available They’ll call it indoctrination on the right, but I just want those kids to see options available to them. “I have a lot of personal spiritual practices, but it’s really hard to identify with the Christian church in America right now,” he says of his own journey. “Nonetheless, I feel like it’s important that there are some folks who try to take a little of that space like what Semler has done, what Derek Webb has done, if for no other reason to just let the next generation of kids who are still growing up in the spaces that I grew up in where I couldn’t be myself, couldn’t even talk about what was really going on with me for fear of being cast out, of being ostracized. The video begins with the Stan Mitchell quote, “If you claim to be someone’s ally but aren’t getting hit by the stones thrown at them, you aren’t standing close enough.” In it, Flamy puts her make-up skills to use on Webb, transforming him into drag in a church sanctuary.įlamy sings the last verse: “I heard Jesus loved and spent his life with those who / Were abandoned by proud and fearful men / So if a church won’t celebrate and love you / They’re believing lies that can’t save you or them / ‘Cause you’re so beautiful by any name.”įeucht’s broadside wasn’t new for Blake. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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