Danny Gokey Addresses Hot-Button Issues in Next Album

Published: July 1, 2024

Danny Gokey Addresses Hot-Button Issues in Next Album

By Movieguide® Contributor

Christian AMERICAN IDOL alum Danny Gokey is going to make waves with his new album, “Sound of Heaven.”

The album “includes his usual upbeat, hope-filled songs but also includes a track that warns about the deceptive nature of evil and urges the church to ‘wake up’ to the lies society has embraced,” Crosswalk Headlines reported June 26.

Gokey is a three-time Grammy nominee and has won three K-LOVE awards. His last album, “Jesus People,” earned a No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart with 300m streams.

His new album speaks to, or rather, sings to the problems with culture.

“Evil is dressing up to fool the people,” Gokey told Crosswalk Headlines.

The 11-track album comes out on July 26. Limoblaze, Niko Eme, Naomi Raine and Evan Craft join Gokey on some of the tracks.

A single from the set, “I Got You,” currently sits on the Billboard Christian Airplay chart.

Movieguide® reported on the song in May:

In a statement about the single, he said the song is “a reminder that when you’ve got God by your side, you can face whatever comes your way!”

“Even when your world is shaking, believing that he is with you & will bring you through,” Gokey continued. “My prayer is that this song encourages you to stand firm in that & keep praising, no matter what!”

His song “Makeup” compares the devil’s lies to appearances and facades. Some of the lyrics read:

“Wake up/I think the devil’s trying to play us/he’s mesmerized us with the makeup/but it’s made up/open your eyes, stop buying all the lies We go with the lie because we’re too afraid to speak up when you’re near the ledge/because gravity, it don’t change/and your truth won’t change a thing/you’ll find out walking off the edge.”

Gokey also made a song that encourages the Christian church to address cultural issues.

“The enemy makes bad things look good,” Gokey said. “And if we’re not discerning, and we’re not paying attention, and we’re not reading our Scriptures, we can fall into the bait.”

“Proverbs talks about the harlot, who says, ‘My husband is traveling, he’s taken a purse full of money, he’ll be gone, I’ve made my bed, come with me [and] lie, let’s fulfill our pleasures.’ And [it] says, little did he know that it was like a bull to the slaughter,” Gokey said.

In this context, culture is the harlot.

“Just because something feels good [and] it looks good — we sometimes don’t see the hook that’s destroying us from the inside out. And that’s what that song is talking about. And I wanted to address it because our culture is declining,” the singer said.

A few lines from the song read: “Tell the truth, even if it hurts, because that’s what love would love. Satan won’t tell you how the party ends/until you’re too far in.”

“Not everything is as it looks or seems,” the “Haven’t Seen it Yet” singer told Crosswalk Headlines. “There’s things that are traps, and there’s bait that is trying to trick us. When the fish takes the bait, it looks tantalizing to see that worm or the minnow. It’s like, ‘That looks good.’ But many times, we don’t see the hook in the thing that looks attractive and tantalizing.”