Country music superstar Luke Bryan surely enjoyed himself along with his Instagram audience. In an innocent, heartfelt post, the singer addressed worship leader Chris Tomlin to thank him for inviting Bryan to sing in what seemed like a last-minute addition to a concert. Though scant on details, the many comments responded to it-and boy, what reactions they garnered!
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Bryan added, “It was a Good Friday indeed. Thanks @Christomlin for having me out tonight.” That’s it. No location, no setlist, no reasoning: just two heavyweights in the music world sharing the stage. Clearly, no one was gonna just let this one go.
Nancysbranti came running with the remark, “This makes my heart smile. Jesus is our King!” while stargirl_8808 added, “I thought I heard you on k love 🤣❤️,” which would basically mean Bryan went on Christian radio manakee if true. Haha, now that is one crossover we never expected. pnh6033 philosophically countered with, “So awesome. The world is a better place because you all know each other. 🙏.” Well, all righty, then.
Then midwestprinreg dropped the bomb stating, “Luke Bryan and Chris Tomlin: The duo I never thought I wanted. Collab on a song please.” Replies to that included someone picturing a full-blown tour with both artists, which honestly sounds either genius or totally insane, just no in between.
But there were dissenters who despaired. Enter jjworldtvlr with ‘A BIT DISGUSTED you went on Jimmy Kimmel recently! WHY.’ Zero context, just outrage. Classic Instagram. Meanwhile, sarahgracej007 clued Bryan into the fact that ‘Chris will getcha with his song holy forever Luke so fair warning to you,’ which seemed somewhat threatening but was maybe all in good fun? We think.
Amid the chaos, some tried to insert some actual questions about the event itself. ‘Can we watch if we missed it? 😍’ chasitylajohnson asked, apparently implying some sort of online live viewership? Details are hazy. Meanwhile, others like davechuckjim focused on the music itself: ‘What a great surprise. Love the song you sang.’ What song? Your guess is as good as mine.
Things then got deeper, as mawanda_frank11 went on to post an extremely long comment detailing her fight with self-harm and her need for support. This was almost opposite to the lighthearted chatter going on in those comments and reminded everyone just how quickly this social media can turn from letting-a-good-time-roll into introspective realms.
Back to the fun: Kerripedwards threw up a praise: ‘Great night with great people @christomlin @tomlinlauren @anthonypiedmonte’ to which one commenter replied, ‘What a great song and artists.’ So right there we at least know three people were there. Progress.
Gavinrose512 came through with ‘I’ve seen both of you guys 😃😃😃,’ and vz.godzgirl offered sweetness, ‘Luke, your surprise appearance tonight was so good! God bless you❤️.’
Then amandaself686 attempted to do A&R herself by saying ‘jesus bout my kids is a good song maybe that could be your next single so many good ones on mind of a country boy album.’ Now someone needs to get this person a job in music publishing.
Random positivity continued pouring in, with the comment from d.ramuchowdary which read, ‘Don’t let someone dim your light, simply because it’s shining in their eyes ❤️🌸🙌💫’. mjlvlb2021 refrained to wish the happy Easter weekend. The weirdest comment goes to satyam_nishad_jee, who abruptly demanded: ‘STOP STOP My God, how many millions of dollars do I have in my bank account, who do I send it to?’ Uh, sir, this is a Luke Bryan Instagram post.
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To sum up, Luke Bryan did something with Chris Tomlin. People seemed to be mad about it, loved it, or stormed in to share unrelated life updates that somehow related to country music. Netiquette. As for whether anything actually meaningful comes from this, well, time will tell; the internet has spoken, and everyone’s got feelings about it.
