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April 10, 2008

American Idol in the Twilight Zone

I swear, I am stunned thinking back over tonight's American Idol show. What was up with having the contestants group-sing "Shout to the Lord" both of the last two nights? And why last night did they sing it "My Shepherd" instead of "My Jesus," and then tonight change it back and sing it the right way? I was really flabbergasted.

I mean, that's a song that Christians sing from their heart. I know because I've sung that in church and it's one of those songs that gets the hands waving in the air and the tears flowing. First, it's just not right, in my opinion, for the show to expect the contestants to sing something like that when maybe they don't believe in it. It is almost mocking the song - and with it, the belief, in my opinion. Can you imagine the uproar and controversy if one of them had dared to object to joining in?

And second, to change the words the first night, leaving "Jesus" out, and then succomb to the outrage of Christians by re-doing it tonight with "Jesus" put back in just seems like a major bit of bungling that only made the original error worse.

Third, and most curious, why did they do such a spiritual song and then immediately follow it with a Beatles song, lip-synced by a whole bunch of stars, including Kobe Bryant (wtf?) and women dancing provocatively and even squeezing their own breasts? Not that a good deal of viewers didn't enjoy that, but did they think if they sang to Jesus they'd be forgiven for showing such behavior to America's kids?

And then Michael Johns was voted off.

Honestly, I think maybe I need to go to bed and watch it again tomorrow to see if it really happened the way I saw it.

Posted by Becky at April 10, 2008 11:20 PM