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The Fake EP

extended play by Joy Whitlock

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ7733158 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Fake EP is the debut release from Christian recording artist Joy Whitlock. It was released on Ardent Records on November 11, 2005. The album received positive reviews. The EP contains 5 original songs written by Whitlock ("Colors" by Whitlock and Drew Thomas) shortly after her conversion, dealing heavily with themes of redemption and the difficult struggles of being a Christian.

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“The Fake EP” enters the record as extended play by Joy Whitlock. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fake, extended and play can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fake, extended and play.
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“The Fake EP” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Fake, extended and play provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7733158. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Fake EP” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.