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Its not just everyday you find a new musical sensation, such as a Christian ska band doing their best to look like Donny Osmond and company. Me personally I would have liked to see Devo or Bob Marley do a version of this, but instead we must settle for Sonseed. For sure, and totally to the max these folks can give Chris Tomlin a run for his money, in fact this song should have been on his new Love CD.<\/p>\n

O.K. music critics let me hear from you– as Dick Clark would say “I’d give it about a 4.5,but you can’t dance to it” \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its not just everyday you find a new musical sensation, such as a Christian ska band doing their best to look like Donny Osmond and company. Me personally I would have liked to see Devo or Bob Marley do a version of this, but instead we must settle for Sonseed. For sure, and totally to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nZap! 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