{"id":2130757,"date":"2025-11-02T17:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2130757"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T17:59:26","slug":"what-was-brandi-carlile-reciting-on-snl-how-thomas-jeffersons-proclamation-about-separating-church-state-made-it-into-a-blazing-rock-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/what-was-brandi-carlile-reciting-on-snl-how-thomas-jeffersons-proclamation-about-separating-church-state-made-it-into-a-blazing-rock-song\/","title":{"rendered":"What Was Brandi Carlile Reciting on \u2018SNL\u2019? How Thomas Jefferson\u2019s Proclamation About Separating \u2018Church & State\u2019 Made It Into a Blazing Rock Song"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two rarities during the musical performances on \u201cSaturday Night Live<\/a>\u201d this weekend: actual rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was performed. Even rarer than that, Thomas Jefferson<\/a> was quoted \u2014 prominently and at length \u2014 in the spot where a guitar solo might have gone.<\/p>\n

During Brandi Carlile<\/a>\u2019s performance of the hard-rocking, U2-styled \u201cChurch & State,\u201d Carlile offered a spoken recitation between choruses about the title subject. Viewers might have thought the words sounded familiar, but hard to exactly place. From the Constitution, maybe?<\/p>\n

Not quite, but close. The words Carlile chose to share with \u201cSNL<\/a>\u201d viewers are from a riff on the Constitution,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Two rarities during the musical performances on \u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d this weekend: actual rock \u2018n\u2019 roll was performed. Even rarer than that, Thomas Jefferson was quoted \u2014 prominently and at length \u2014 in the spot where a guitar solo might have gone. During Brandi Carlile\u2019s performance of the hard-rocking, U2-styled \u201cChurch & State,\u201d Carlile offered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2130758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2130757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/What-Was-Brandi-Carlile-Reciting-on-\u2018SNL-How-Thomas-Jeffersons.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2130757"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2130759,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2130757\/revisions\/2130759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2130758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2130757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2130757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2130757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}