{"id":68,"date":"2008-07-07T16:16:52","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/07\/heidi-montag-christian-music-a.html"},"modified":"2008-07-07T16:16:52","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T16:16:52","slug":"heidi-montag-christian-music-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/07\/heidi-montag-christian-music-a.html","title":{"rendered":"Heidi Montag, Christian music artist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HeidiMontagHigherSingleCover2008.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/118\/import\/HeidiMontagHigherSingleCover2008.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>First, the story that<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/06\/katy-perry-christian-recording.html\" target=\"_blank\"> Katy Perry once released a Christian album,<\/a> but fled that path for a more secular career where, as her fans have been vehemently asserting, &#8220;she can finally be herself.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow comes <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/07\/heidi-montag-christian-music-w.html\" target=\"_blank\">the news that Heidi Montag<\/a>, star of MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills,&#8221; wants to move in the opposite direction, from reality TV star to Christian recording artist.<br \/>\nIt has been rumored that &#8220;The Hill&#8217;s&#8221; star and current boyfriend Spencer Pratt are Christians. Pictures of the pair coming out of a Sunday morning worship service at In His Presence church in Woodland Hills, California were posted on a celebrity gossip site in June. (Good grief, can&#8217;t these people even go to church without paparazzi snapping photos?)<br \/>\nBut going into a church doesn&#8217;t make you a Christian. It just makes you a church goer.<br \/>\nIn a recent ABCnews.com story, Montag likens herself to squeaky clean pop trio The Jonas Brothers, touting herself as another positive role model. She also sympathizes with Jesus and his persecution.<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t know much about Montag and I don&#8217;t watch &#8220;The Hills,&#8221; but I have met <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/gospelsoundcheck\/2008\/06\/camp-rock-songwriters-to-teach.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Jonas Brothers <\/a>and I can tell you first hand they&#8217;re the real deal. And I&#8217;ve had a close encounter with Christ, and, call me ignorant, but I&#8217;m fairly certain that the best girlfriend cattiness of a reality TV show pales in comparison to dying for the sins of all mankind.<br \/>\nThe photo here is the cover art for Montag&#8217;s single, &#8220;Higher,&#8221; which was released in February 2008. The lyrics are fairly benign &#8211; encouraging dreaming and spreading your wings to fly. The video, though, has her cavorting around on a beach, breasts almost hanging out of her t-shirt, and then rolling in the sand in a string bikini. Positive role model? I&#8217;m not so sure.<br \/>\nBut hey, what do I know?<br \/>\nSo, dear readers, you&#8217;re going to have to fill me in. Is Heidi Montag a Christian? If she releases a Christian album, will that be good or bad for her career? Can the girl even sing?<br \/>\nOr is she just looking to capitlize on her 15 minutes of fame?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the story that Katy Perry once released a Christian album, but fled that path for a more secular career where, as her fans have been vehemently asserting, &#8220;she can finally be herself.&#8221; Now comes the news that Heidi Montag, star of MTV&#8217;s &#8220;The Hills,&#8221; wants to move in the opposite direction, from reality TV&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-music-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Heidi Montag, Christian music artist? 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