Country Music Continues its Descent into Drag Queen Perversion

Nashville-based Country Music Television (CMT) hosted its annual CMT Music Awards show Sunday night in Austin, Texas. The program took a demonic turn as the show’s host, Kelsea Ballerini performed her song “If You Go Down (I’m Going Down Too) surrounded by a group of four drag queens she featured as backup dancers.

This sulphuric performance occuring on Palm Sunday, days after a transgender female murdered six people in a Nashville Christian school just last week, was simply icing on a very moldy cake. The trend of All Things Trans pushing into the sphere of country music should not be surprising, but it is unnerving that so many confessing Christians continue to watch these shows, and buy music from artists that hold the faith in contempt.

On a surface level, this performance was a protest against the recent Tennessee law banning children from attending drag queen performances. Ballerini herself said of the event, “I love performance, and I love self-expression, and I love inclusivity.” CMT tweeted out a picture of the deviant artist saying, “What can’t our host do? Kelsea Ballerini absolutely SLAYED her CMT Awards performance!” and predictably, they followed that statement with a rainbow emoji.

While Christians all over the country spoke out about the perverse display on a show they used to believe was family-friendly, one could argue, however, that country music was rarely “family friendly” and certainly not friendly to Christian families. While there are typically more overt themes of faith and family than many genres of music, Nashville artists have been slipping dishonorable messaging into their songs for ages, where it’s all fun and games until you consider what is being said in light of scripture.

Even the song Ballerini sang on Sunday is full of blasphemous lyrics. For instance, one verse reads, “It’s a good thing we’re each other’s kinda crazy. Ain’t no judgment or keepin’ score. If you rob a bank, I’m your getaway Mercedes. God knows that’s what friends are for.” Another reads, “I keep all your secrets by the dozen. You know where my skeletons sleep. Hypothetically, if you ever kill your husband. Hand on the Bible, I’d be lyin’ through my teeth.”

When faced with lyrics claiming that God is in favor of protecting armed robbers and swearing on the Bible when knowingly lying, how many Christians drive down the road with the radio on, unknowingly singing these blasphemous lyrics? For the longest time, many conservative Christians viewed country music as the only secular music that Christians could and should listen to, but a day of reckoning is coming. While some Christ-honoring artists can still be found, that circle is getting smaller and smaller, as an industry that has been considered by many as a safer harbor will instead be more and more revealed to be nothing more than rainbow-colored shoals.