Worship Artist Emphasizes Vulnerability With God
By Movieguide® Contributor
Worship artist Chandler Moore is sharing the inspiration and heart behind his new album “Chandler Moore: LIVE in Los Angeles.”
“The biggest inspiration writing this album was, it’s all about returning to the type of music I grew up in,” he told Movieguide® in an exclusive interview. “I grew up in church — my dad’s a pastor — so a lot of live sounds, a lot of live vocalists, a lot of energy in a smaller room like a church almost. So, the biggest inspiration was getting back to what started in music…I wanted to get back to the roots, so that’s what this album is about.”
Mostly, though, Moore wants listeners to experience vulnerability with God through his music.
“I want people to hear the vulnerability, and it maybe can translate to vulnerability in their own lives,” he said, “I think our relationship with God is all about honesty and truth and bringing ourselves to the table and not trying to present anything other than truth. So, this album has really hardcore, vulnerable lyrics.”
Creating the music was a vulnerable process for the singer, as well. He feels the vulnerability most acutely in the lyrics from the second single on the album titled “I Have A Father.”
“The bridge is like, ‘I have a father who loves me just the way I am. I have a father who sees me and leads me by his hand. Even the trauma couldn’t stop the plans he had for me,'” Moore said.
He explained how he’s “been hurt by a lot and experienced a lot of pain” in his life. This song is “singing truth that even though things have happened that I didn’t plan, or I didn’t even want, or I didn’t enjoy, it doesn’t stop what God has planned for me.”
Moore had previously teased this new album in an Instagram video, which Movieguide® reported on. “If I were to call it an evolution of what people know me as, I feel like I would be cheapening what God has really done in me. I believe the music I’m working on now is really honest, and it’s going to free a lot of people,” he said.
“Chandler Moore: LIVE in Los Angeles” is streaming on all platforms now.
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Movieguide® previously reported on Moore:
Maverick City Music worship leader Chandler Moore shared a more vulnerable, personal side in his latest song “Honest.”
In an intimate and stripped-down guitar/vocal video, Moore sings about his struggles with being faithful to God:
“God, can I be honest? I’ve been doing things I shouldn’t be doing. It gets worse in the darkest. Tryna put my faith in what I can’t see. I know it’s crazy cause it ain’t good for me. But don’t you ever leave me just for being honest.”
“I wanted to do something special and invite y’all into my personal therapy session,” Moore introduced the song in his Instagram post. “So from my heart to yours, ‘Can I be honest?’”
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