I got an email advertising this clip from YouTube tonight. Let's clear up a few things first: she sings the heck out of this. While she may be criticized for where she chooses to take breaths, it is beautifully and masterfully sung.
Watch the clip (it really is very good):
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLLMzr3PFgk&]
However, along with this clip, within the email...was this proposition:
"PLEASE watch and listen to the attachment of Carrie Underwood singing her heart out on "How Great Thou Art", I first saw it on T.V. last Friday night and she brought tears to my eye's and the audience to there feet, and I'll bettcha God heard her in Heaven cause if you watch her closely as she sings, she was singing to Him........."
The thing is, the song is great. Carrie is great. It is well done by both her and Vince.
But I wonder if this song, in this context, is being performed as a hymn or simply as a spiritual song. Is there a difference?
I don't doubt that she was singing to "Him" but I wonder if the applause from that crowd was for God, or Carrie, or both.
An honest question, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
No matter who the applause and praise was for..."I bettcha God heard her in Heaven." I'm pretty sure God hears everything. Especially words sung in praise to God.
-B