“Some people who were in her orbit have talked to me and said, ‘Amy thinks it’s great.’ I am hopeful that there will be some kind of collaboration someday.” “I know Amy Grant knows about me,” Blake says with a smile. “I’m still in that touring phase, but this certainly brought it up to a level I did not anticipate 10 months into the release of this.”Īnd yes, the inspiration behind their drag name does, in fact, know all about it. “It’s wild because the album is 10 months old,” they say. While neither “Good Day” or Bible Belt Baby have managed to crack Billboard‘s Christian charts yet, Blake remains amazed at the power of their modest-but-mighty fans online. 1 on their Christian Albums chart - where it stayed for seven straight days, until falling to No. 1 on iTunes’ Christian Songs charts, and her album Bible Belt Baby reached No. Yet within 24 hours of her original post, “Good Day” briefly hit No. 1, I’m just trying to crack the charts,” Grant said in the video, tempering her own expectations. 1 song on iTunes’ Christian charts earlier this year. In the video, she pointed to Semler, another out Christian artist and a friend of hers, who earned a No. Jumping over to her TikTok, Grant began a grassroots campaign amongst her following to get “ Good Day,” the queer-affirming worship song off of her album Bible Belt Baby, to land on iTunes’ Christian charts. “What’s gonna happen? She’s gonna run with it.” “You say that to a drag queen? Baby, what were you thinking?” Blake says, laughing. “I didn’t think things through, which is kind of a hallmark for me - I am very impetuous, I dive right in.” “Derek was the one who said, ‘He does have this insane platform, and there’s got to be a way to leverage it,'” they recall. Immediately joining a text thread with Webb and the other artists pictured, Blake (who uses they/them pronouns out of drag) tells Billboard that the group saw Feucht’s post as an opportunity. “If you’re wondering the end goal of the deconstruction movement in the church, then look no further than former worship leader new collab with a drag queen,” Feucht wrote. The lead photo for the piece showed Webb posing with fellow Christian artists Plumb, Jennifer Knapp, and Flamy Grant. Sean Feucht, a singer and preacher known for hosting maskless concerts to protest government restrictions at the height of COVID-19 and claiming that he wants God to “take over the government,” posted an article last Wednesday (July 26) commenting on Christian singer Derek Webb’s recent album release show.
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