{"id":3320,"date":"2020-11-09T17:04:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/?p=3320"},"modified":"2020-11-09T17:14:01","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T17:14:01","slug":"skillet-collects-two-more-dove-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/2020\/11\/09\/skillet-collects-two-more-dove-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Skillet Collects Two More Dove Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-768x554.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-1030x744.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-705x509.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture-450x325.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Skillet-Victorious-picture.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Skillet picks up two more Dove Awards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rock\/Contemporary Song Of The Year:\u00a0\u00a0<em>Legendary<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Rock\/Contemporary Album Of The Year:\u00a0 Victorious<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have two reactions to this.\u00a0 The fact that we love the band Skillet and we love its members has us saying: &#8220;Congratulations!\u00a0 We <em>are\u00a0<\/em>very happy for you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But the sarcastic\/jaded side of us says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Well, of course Skillet continues to win Dove Awards now!<\/p>\n<p>They are accepted within the realm of mainstream Christian music and records.<\/p>\n<p>This is bittersweet for us long-time Skillet fans that are still upset about the fact that they were passed over in favor of much less deserving bands like\u00a0<em>The W&#8217;s<\/em> back in Skillet&#8217;s early heydays.<\/p>\n<p>Polling of The Blast audience indicated that Demon Hunter\u00a0<em>War<\/em> should have been the winner in the Rock album of the year category, but we highly doubt any band with the name <em>demon<\/em> in it, with such heavy music, will fare well in a &#8220;Rock\/<em>Contemporary&#8221;<\/em> category against a band that has been accepted in the circles of mainstream Christian radio.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the voters probably saw Skillet on the ballot and saw the other 4 contenders and said &#8220;Who are these guys?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re not confident that there is a lot of actual knowledge about Christian Rock (and about the other great bands that were nominated for these awards) among the Dove Award voters.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skillet picks up two more Dove Awards: Rock\/Contemporary Song Of The Year:\u00a0\u00a0Legendary Rock\/Contemporary Album Of The Year:\u00a0 Victorious We have two reactions to this.\u00a0 The fact that we love the band Skillet and we love its members has us saying: &#8220;Congratulations!\u00a0 We are\u00a0very happy for you.&#8221; But the sarcastic\/jaded side of us says&#8230; Well, of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[76,65,172,71,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3325,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3320\/revisions\/3325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblast.fm\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}