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John Foster performs “In Color” by Jamey Johnson, American Idol 2025 Season 23 Hollywood Week: Showstopper. Startattle.com – American Idol.
Contestant: John Foster (18 years old), College Student from Addis, Los Angeles
Round: Hollywood Week: Showstopper
Song: “In Color” by Jamey Johnson
Result: TBA
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John Foster In Colorr Full Performance | American Idol 2025 Hollywood Week Showstopppers.
John Foster “In Color” American Idol
“In Color” is a song co-written and recorded by American country music artist Jamey Johnson. It was released in March 2008 as the first single from his 2008 album That Lonesome Song. Johnson co-wrote the song with James Otto and Lee Thomas Miller. In January 2009, “In Color” became Johnson’s first Top 10 country hit with a peak at number 9.
The song won awards for Song of the Year in both the 2009 ACM Awards and the 2009 CMA Awards.
The song is a largely acoustic ballad centralizing on an elderly man who is showing black-and-white photographs to his grandson, each photograph showing a various part of the man’s life. Describing the instances in each photos, such as fighting in World War II, the Great Depression and the day he and his wife first got married, he recalls his own life story to his grandson, telling him that ” should have seen it in color” (i.e., that the grandson would have had to have been there himself to understand what each experience was truly like). Trace Adkins was originally slated to record the song, until Johnson asked Adkins’ permission to record the song himself. Adkins did record the song as an iTunes exclusive bonus track on his 2008 album, X. This story concept parallels the 2006 Carbon Leaf song “The War Was in Color”.
Show: American Idol
Season: American Idol 2025 (Season 23)
Host: Ryan Seacrest
Judges: Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Lionel Richie
The twenty-third season of American Idol premiered on March 2, 2025, on the ABC television network. Ryan Seacrest returned as host; Luke Bryan, and Lionel Richie returned as judges, along with season four winner Carrie Underwood replacing Katy Perry as a judge.
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