Switchfoot gay
Last week, Switchfoot&#;s Jon Foreman posted a TikTok expressing assist for the LGBTQ community. The video came in response to a communication from Grace Semler Baldridge, a lgbtq+ Christian artist who&#;s been calling on CCM and CCM-adjacent acts to clarify their positions on LGBTQ inclusion.
“Yes, I support your rights and freedoms, I want you to feel loved and supported,” Foreman says in the video. “Love and hug have always been central to our story and our song. We desire our differences.”
Baldridge, superior known as Semler to her rapidly expanding fanbase, was thrilled. “I am interpreting what you said as entity affirming,&#; she said. &#;If I am incorrect in that, then I really hope you would clarify. Because I think for many queer people of faith, the bait-and-switch of hearing such encouraging words favor yours and then finding out that means something else can be heartbreaking. But I don’t think that’s you.”
Semler&#;s Preacher&#;s Kid EP landed at the very top of iTunes&#; Christian charts when it released in February, a first for an openly queer artist. A short collection
Switchfoot Has Never Grant You Down
In , Jon Foreman sat down with his brother Tim, their friend Chad Butler and their families to figure out what to carry out about Switchfoot.
“We weren’t making money,” Butler says now. “My wife had a job. She was paying the rent. We had a new baby. We were really struggling.”
Butler wasn’t alone. The whole band was in a close spot. Jon had moved back in with his parents. “Life was moving forward,” Tim says. “What feels like a sustainable thing when you’re in high school looks alternative in your mids.”
It wasn’t supposed to be enjoy this. The three albums the band released through Christian labels had been warmly received by critics, but good reviews don’t pay for health insurance and a loyal monitoring of youth group kids isn’t exactly a sturdy foundation for a genuine career.
Still, thanks to a few lucky breaks and good songs, Switchfoot managed to get signed to an actual mainstream label: Columbia Records/SonyBMG. But from the jump, things went as poorly as they could have gone. The band flew to Recent York to play a few new tracks from their upcoming
Did Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman Affirm the LGBTQ+ Community?
Jon Foreman, frontman of the Grammy Award winning Christian rock band Switchfoot, recently turned heads when he appeared to affirm people living an LGBTQ+ lifestyle in a video posted to the band’s TikTok page.
In the video, which has received over 22, views, Foreman replies to openly gender non-conforming artist Grace Baldridge who goes by Semler on stage. Earlier this year, Semler independently released an album titled “Preacher’s Kid,” which reached the number one spot on the iTunes Christian album chart, overtaking Lauren Daigle’s “Look Up Child.”
Semler’s album comes with an “explicit warning” tag and condemns many aspects of her Christian upbringing. In the lyric “Bethlehem,” Baldridge questions the historicity of Jesus’ birth, talks about marrying another woman, says “f@#k a saviour,” and accuses missions trips of being scams.
“Preacher’s Kid” drew praise from deconstructing exvangelical Kevin Max. The DC Talk member told Baldridge, “Excit
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marks the 20th anniversary of Switchfoot's seminal album, The Beautiful Letdown. The triple-platinum record included the chart topping hits, Meant To Live & Dare You To Move and changed the lives of the band members and a generation the world over. The underdog success story of The Pretty Letdown exemplifies Switchfoot's iconoclast, grassroots approach- defying the odds of major labels and mainstream media. In fact, just before the album was released, Switchfoot was dropped from the major label they were signed to. It was only after millions of albums had been sold that the label was forced to support the band that had proved them wrong. Drummer Chad Butler recalls, "Looking back, I realize the album was aptly titled - The Beautiful Letdown embraced a human story equally full of highs and lows." Celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Beautiful Letdown, the band realizes just how important that rollercoaster was.
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