The Grammys were last night. Here’s some highlights:
Pharrell did “Happy” in a weird orchestral setting with a piano player who is famous enough that no one has heard of him and the Pirates of the Caribbean music guy pretending to play guitar.
Beyonce performed a gospel chorus. She sang it once. It took 27 minutes.
Something they called a “Sia” was there. I think it might be related to a sasquatch.
Beck won Album of the Year, which is completely different than the Record of the Year. Obviously.
The big winner of the night was Sam Smith.
I have never heard of Sam Smith.
I didn’t watch the whole thing, and part of the joy of having DVR is that I could zip through the program and get some highlights while my daughter was not-sleeping late last night. I did monitor my Twitter feed, and this caught my eye:
If you’ve never heard or paid attention to the song, it is a musically beautiful piece whose lyrics intentionally demean Christian worship. The focus of the song is on the worship of ourselves and our sexuality instead of the God that created us.
This tweet created a lot of response. Very little was positive. Several individuals pointed out that the author’s intent of the song was to demean Christianity, some seemed to think Acuff didn’t think to look into the song and had just reacted to a catchy tune the first time he had heard it. Acuff interacted with several of respondents and later shared this thought:
As followers of Christ we are called to seek truth. God has revealed Himself to the world in various ways; He has given us His Word as a revelation of His story and nature; the universe proclaims truth of it’s Creator; and we have an opportunity to explore truth and beauty through art. Art is hard to define and comes in an overwhelming assortment of variations and forms. It can be good and bad and it can and often does reveal truth and beauty, all of which gives us a glimpse at the God of all goodness, truth and beauty.
Hozier intended to demean God, but sometimes when we are confronted with evil we get a glimpse of an insight into human nature and sin, and through that insight we see the truth of our savior standing in opposition to evil, and we can be encouraged through that insight.
Acuff looked through an artistic representation of something beautiful but wrong and saw a truth about the one true God. Lets not be so quick to criticize peoples reactions to the world around us and instead look for the different ways God is using the world to share Himself with us.
Driven 