{"id":1040,"date":"2007-05-23T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2007\/05\/american-idol-christian-music-artist.html"},"modified":"2007-05-23T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T11:51:00","slug":"american-idol-christian-music-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2007\/05\/american-idol-christian-music-artist.html","title":{"rendered":"‘American Idol’: Christian Music Artist Wins Song Writing Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Furthering the conspiracy theory that Christians are scewing the results of this year’s “American Idol” finale, the song that won this year\u2019s first-ever “American Idol” songwriting contest and sung by finalist Blake Lewis was written by a longtime Christian music recording artist Scott Krippayne <\/a>and his pastor. The song, a cheesy ballad that makes last year’s theme song, “You\u2019ve had a bad day,” look clever, will be sung by the winner on their debut album.<\/p>\n

Did Blake\u2019s weak performance of a really mediocre song <\/a>ruin his chances of winning the competition? Or will having a singer with Christian roots–Jordin Sparks–be the perfect choice <\/a>to make that song a hit if she wins “Idol” which will help Krippayne\u2019s career soar as well?<\/p>\n

I guess these are the earthshaking questions you diehard Idol fans will be tuning in tonight to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Furthering the conspiracy theory that Christians are scewing the results of this year’s “American Idol” finale, the song that won this year\u2019s first-ever “American Idol” songwriting contest and sung by finalist Blake Lewis was written by a longtime Christian music recording artist Scott Krippayne and his pastor. 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