{"id":1349744,"date":"2022-02-28T15:23:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349744"},"modified":"2022-02-28T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:23:10","slug":"american-idol-season-20-premiere-features-black-lives-matter-ballad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/american-idol-season-20-premiere-features-black-lives-matter-ballad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018American Idol\u2019 Season 20 Premiere Features Black Lives Matter Ballad"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famerican-idol-season-20-premiere-features-black-lives-matter-ballad%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1349744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/TaylorFaginsamericanidol1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><i>American Idol<\/i> kicked off the debut of its 20th season with a Black Lives Matter balled as star judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan listened to the George Floyd-inspired number.<\/p>\n<p>The long-running ABC series (rebooted after Fox canceled it at season 16) featured another slate of singers hopeful that they can become the next Kelly Clarkson or Carrie Underwood. But a notable departure from the usual cover songs came when Taylor Fagins sang his own paean to the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Fagins, a UC Irvine drama graduate, singer, songwriter, and playwright, told the show he wrote \u201cWe Need More\u201d shortly after George Floyd\u2019s death in police custody in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The star-studded panel of judges sat in rapt silence as Fagins sang his tribute to \u201cvictims of police violence,\u201d including Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and accusations about \u201cpolice burglars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Watch below:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Country star and <em>American<\/em>\u00a0<i>Idol<\/i> judge Luke Bryan called Fagins\u2019 performance \u201ca really magical kind of moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lionel Richie called the song \u201cvery powerful\u201d and \u201cvery heavy.\u201d Richie added, \u201cWhat I am emotional about is that we need your song in 2022. How disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of the lyrics of Fagin\u2019s original tune include claims that black children can\u2019t play outside for fear of police, and blasts white people because black girls fear being around them.<\/p>\n<p>For Arbery, Fagins wrote, \u201cYou went for a run \u2018cause you probably felt free.\u201d And added, \u201cLittle black boys don\u2019t run outside or play with water guns at night,\u201d and \u201cThey run away from red and white, blue lights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another line in the anti-white song reads, \u201cLittle black girls don\u2019t close their eyes or walk the streets alone at night,\u201d and \u201cThey turn their cameras on when they see white.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song winds up with, \u201cLittle black boys and girls are scared, their parents feel so unprepared,\u201d and \u201cThe world sees black no matter what you wear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fagins was given the nod to continue on into the season as a contestant, but was not awarded \u201cplatinum ticket\u201d status.<\/p>\n<p><i>Follow Warner Todd Huston on Facebook at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston\">facebook.com\/Warner.Todd.Huston<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Idol kicked off the debut of its 20th season with a Black Lives Matter balled as star judges Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan listened to the George<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}