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Yeah. Ted Nugent sings about his evil in the song, Sweet Sally. It seems that the music execs and corporate executives are increasingly making the world be a place where the average person has the choice of consuming their products which are tainted with evil and taint your consciousness with evil or living a life isolated from the greater part of humanity. I like rock n roll and try to block out the negative messages and vibes* while enjoying the hard driving rhythms, sounds, melodies, and song structures, but the taint still seeps in. The encroaching negativity is in the movies, fashion, etc. Even Doritos made some chips with the boy love, triangle-within-a-triangle, which they sold in Mexico. You can try to take refuge in a church but they’re very compromised too.

*Regarding negative vibes in music, I have a lot to say, but let me just touch on it here. The last time I heard The Rooster, by Alice in Chains, I was thinking about how the trend of rock n roll has been in that dark direction and away from songs like Fight the Good Fight, by Triumph, and Last Chance, by Shooting Star, which, beyond their lyrical message, have uplifting vibes to the music itself. The “Seattle Sound” regularly incorporated retrogressive chord changes and timing of those changes which always evoke a sinking feeling in my chest. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is epically optimistic, like you’re in a battle of good vs evil and can feel the victory of good coming. Rock can draw on that energy, and has, but it’s not being promoted because they want to kill our spirit, not uplift it.

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Yeh I def remember being a kid and being into real "edgy" metal and thinking it was sooooo anarchic, then it dawns on you what a money machine and just how popular this brand of music is and it's troubling to consider how prevalent the promotion of darkness and occultism really is, bands being a popular pipeline to it, and like you say, movies and media in general

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This explains why Courtney and Drew B were so attracted to each other.

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