THE INSIDE TRACK:
Amy Grant is not pleased about being
labeled Christian music's answer to Madonna.
"I don't guess I'm trying to be an answer to anything," says the hottest item in the new wave of Christian rock music - and whose A&M "Unguarded" LP is getting distribution and promotion usually reserved for secular acts. "It would be kind of gross if your inspiration came because you were trying to be the alternate of someone else. Inspiration should come just because you want to sing and you want to give people things through your songs. It's kind of cheap to say, `Uh-oh. There's a Madonna. There'd better be a flip side.' It's like saying I exist because there's a Madonna. Instead, whether there's a Madonna or not, I'm going to do what I'm going to do." Grant, who will be making an in-concert video of her next single - "Wise Up" - at her Aug. 4 gig in Atlanta, says she's trying not to let the sudden surge of public scrutiny affect her. "There are always going to be people on the two extremes, especially with me. There'll be those who say, `Man, I'd like it if you weren't so preachy.' And then there'll be the other extreme, who say, `Amy, you have such an opportunity. Why don't you give it to 'em with both barrels?' And then there's me in the middle saying, `All I'm trying to do is communicate, and I'm doing the best I can.' "
Houston Chronicle
July 24, 1985
By Marilyn Beck
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