In our technologically 'advanced' society, different types of music are more accessible than ever before. In this day and age, with the multiplicity of specialized MP3 players, mobile phones and other assorted gadgets, an entire album can be downloaded within a matter of seconds... with little or no content restrictions in place.
So how much music do kids actually listen to these days? An English study published by North et al in 2000 showed that a sample of 2,456 adolescents listened to an average of 2.45 hours of music per day. It has also been reported that children aged eight to ten listen to an average of 1 hour per day. A more recent study (Roberts et al) in 2005 showed that a staggering 85% of children aged eight to eighteen years old listened to music on any given day.
The effect of music and video on a developing human psyche
According to psychologists Ashby and Rich (2005) in their paper, Video killed the radio star:
"Music induces strong emotions that can make individuals more susceptible to changes in attitude or behavior. Multiple studies demonstrated the influence of visual media on risky attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors among adolescents. Combined in a music video, music and visuals may enhance, redirect, or contrast with the effects of the lyrics and introduce new aspects to the media experience that were not understood or considered previously by the viewer.So, the presence of both audio and visual stimulation can cause the visual image portrayed in a music video to "persist with the viewer"? They further state:
"The combination of music and video may be synergistic in their effect on adolescent attitudes and behavior. Once music establishes a mood, the lyrics and images that are portrayed may have more impact than either form alone. Music can alter an individual's receptivity to visual presentation. A study from the early years of music television found that the enhancement of rock music with a visual component increased appreciation of the music. Conversely, research shows that after watching music videos, the visual images persist with the viewer even when that individual is listening to an audio only version of a song; most music video viewers ''always'' or ''frequently'' thought of content from the music video when listening to the corresponding music. Rubin et al demonstrated that college students assessed music videos more positively and believed that they were more ''potent'' than music alone "
"Music videos socialize young people by communicating ideas about expected behavior, relationships, and male and female roles. Although music videos are diverse and individual music videos portray a variety of gender roles and responsibilities, content analysis of music videos demonstrates that those who use music videos as a source of social learning generally receive specific information about the roles, responsibilities, and behavior of their gender in society."OK! So we are now aware that children and adolescents listen to a lot of music, and we also can see that music can induce strong emotions and can "communicate ideas about expected behaviors, relationships and male and female roles" playing a definite role in a child's identity formation, while visual images can "persist with the viewer even when that individual is listening to an audio only version of a song". So what type of music do kids today listen to?
When music becomes non-music
In recent years, the content of mainstream popular music appears to have undergone some rather drastic changes and the inclusion of "pro-social values" featured in songs seems to be gradually on the decline. In other words: The monotonous drivel spewed forth by the pop-culture of today's society (as a substitute for music) can only be described as an ever-growing cesspit of obscenities, profanities and the indication of outright moral decay. A prime example of this is Miley Cyrus.
Miley Cyrus: the perfect role model for teenage girls
With the unlikely aim of "motivating mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams", Miley succeeds merely in glamorising and openly promoting pathologically, hyper-sexualised ideals such as excessive promiscuity, bisexuality, the public use of sexual paraphernalia and explicit drug misuse. Basically, this is pedophilic sexual debauchery presented to us in the form of a mentally-disturbed 22 year old girl with the emotional maturity of the average politician. It's not surprising then that the bulk of her target audience is between the ages of 6-14 year olds. In the name of "feminism" and "freedom", it is possible that Miley truly believes that parading her infectious filth across the world for young, vulnerable minds to absorb is acting in favour of the "greater good" and standing up for women's rights to express their sexuality. But what Miley believes is irrelevant. What she achieves is to support the goal of our pathocratic system to produce as many intellectually and emotionally-stunted adolecents as possible, to fill the ranks of the up and coming political class.
It is not surprising that Miley is one of the "Disney Kids" that have exploded onto the music scene in recent decades. Does anyone remember what happened to Britney Spears? It's gut wrenching to imagine the trauma and suffering that these 'just turned' superstars were probably made to endure as young children at the hands of the Hollywood music industry's predatory pedophile networks. Yes, that's right. Pedophilia is apparently not only rife in political inner circles, but the music and film industries are also badly infected with it. This is not so difficult to believe when you understand that psychopaths usually manage to work their way up to the top of any given sector, and seem to congregate with others who have similar 'predilections'. If you would like to gain some insight into the depths of abuse and the prevalence of institutionalized pedophilia within the USA Child Protective Services, take a listen to this interview. And for a ground breaking article concerning the UK establishment scandal please read this article.
According to 1980's Hollywood child star, Corey Feldman:
"I can tell you that the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry. ... It's the big secret,"According to a 2014 newspaper article, a member of the audience at last year's performance said that "She (Miley) got loads of people of the same sex to snog in the audience and put them on camera on a giant screen and made a speech about how we should all just 'be ourselves'". The fact is that this particular demeanor is not unique to Miley.
It Gets Darker...
Here are some lyrics from another of pop-culture's currently most advertised "sex dolls", Katy Perry:
"I kissed a girl and I liked it, [..]If these lyrics sound a lot like unadulterated filth, it's because they are. In my opinion, they would be better suited to the pages of an established pornographic magazine, or an internal White House memo. But from where does this revolting trash emanate, and who on earth actually chooses to sully their minds with it?!
No, I don't even know your name, it doesn't matter.
You're my experimental game, just human nature.
It's not what good girls do, not how they should behave."
"Don't be a shy kinda guy I'll bet it's beautiful
Come on baby let me see
I wanna see your peacock, cock, cock
Your peacock, cock"
"You're reading me like erotica,
Boy, you make me feel exotic, yeah
Just when I think I can't take anymore
We go deeper and harder than ever before"
Katy Perry: Can we ban her yet?
Now let's consider some lyrics from pop-superstar Rihanna's single "SNM":
"Cause I may be bad but I'm perfectly good at itThe music video for this single boasts a total of 64 million views on the popular video hosting site Vimeo and is titled "SNM" which, by the way, is an acronym for "Sadism" and "Masochism". If you are unfamiliar with either term, here are the definitions:
Sex in the air, I don't care, I love the smell of it
Sticks and stones may break my bones,
But chains and whips excite me"
Sadism - The gaining of pleasure and sexual gratification from the infliction of pain and mental suffering on another person
Masochism - The condition in which sexual gratification depends on suffering physical pain or humiliation.
'Rihanna': broadcasting 'wholesome values' into your child's brain
Anyway, Rihanna's video depicts the singer prancing around in white latex dominatrix-style bondage gear and imitating sex acts with mannequin dolls while provocatively sucking on a banana. (Also to be seen in a future session of Congress no doubt).
Now, recall what you read earlier:
"Music videos socialize young people by communicating ideas about expected behaviour, relationships, and male and female roles"With exposure to this "music" (aka mind-programming), what kind of ideas do you think that children receive about their expected behaviour, relationships and gender role in society? The popularization and glorification of this openly aggressive, psychopathic, sexually obscene vulgarity that objectifies and denigrates the female form appears to have gained acceptance in Western society. If you're not convinced, then consider that Rihanna, the girl who "whips and chains excite", recently landed a starring role in the children's animated movie "Home"...
If you are unable to see the trend by now, then I am afraid that you have probably succumbed to the very psychopathic mindset that has already been briefly addressed above, the one which turns out to be the driving force behind this whole phenomena. However, if you can see what is happening and have the courage to break free from this distorted perception of reality, the bigger picture will become clear further on. But first of all, we need to clarify a few things.
The effects on a young (or even old) mind
In the opinion of psychologist Jeffrey Arnett, "music and music videos can play an important part in both love-related aspects of identity formation". Research supporting this notion has shown that the attitudes and beliefs of adolescents were affected by exposure to music that portrayed stereotyped gender roles. Another study also found that those who were exposed to such music were more likely to accept adversarial relationships and interpersonal violence in their own lives. It was theorized by the investigators that "media portrayals transiently alter the way in which subsequent human interactions are viewed and interpreted".
In addition to the alteration of adolescents attitudes and beliefs about their environment and others around them, exposure to certain types of music appears to also alter attitudes and beliefs regarding the self. Research has shown that just ten minutes of exposure to music videos that feature idolised models with the "desired physique" cause a drastic increase in female participant's level of bodily dissatisfaction. At integral stages of development, as children grow and mature in this world, particularly in Western society, unattainable socio-cultural ideals promulgated by the mainstream media are thrust upon the impressionable minds and aim to surround the child from as early on as possible. This promoted imagery may consist of the "perfect" body, the "perfect" face or any other combination of physical traits that are deemed to be "desirable" by the mainstream media monster. Excessive sexual behavior and self objectification are also promoted as being a means of gaining acceptance, popularity and success. Children soon learn to imitate behavior that they perceive as being socially beneficial, which, in this case is generally vanity, self love and self objectification. The sad truth is that modern society is so deeply infested with this stream of filth that people now openly worship the false and the hollow. Many people in Western societies (and around the world) now idolize a variety of pathologically narcissistic characters and seek to become like them. This is seen as "normal".
To top it all off, there is also evidence to suggest that the underlying beliefs and attitudes that have been adopted by children through the exposure to this type of pop-music also appears to manifest in children's behavior. A poll conducted by 'Netmums' which surveyed 1500+ parents showed that 81.7% of parents claimed that their child had repeated or sung sexual lyrics without realizing the meaning. In addition, 33.4% stated that their child had imitated sexually provocative dance moves performed by pop-music stars.
'But hang on!' I hear you say, 'these children are completely unaware of what they are imitating and it's not as if they are acting out these behaviors in real life, so... what's the problem?'
The destruction of society's moral compass and the sexualization of children
It turns out that the pop-culture music industry is one of the most successful vehicles for the spread of this kind of, well, evil. The young mind, having not yet established a strong sense of 'self', is highly susceptible to this form of manipulation and can be quickly drawn into the dynamic at a very young age. These appearance-based values and unrealistic expectations of oneself then may lead to an over-active negative 'introject', a distorted self image and a rather twisted view of the external world and others in it.
This state of being thwarts any real possibility of truly connecting with other human beings and forming lasting emotional bonds. Any relationship that is established on appearance-based values is doomed to fail, just as the human being who has adopted these customs is forever doomed to be unhappy and filled with an insatiable hunger for anything that fills the empty void inside. This is what the children of today's world are faced with. This is their inheritance. Vulnerable children are becoming increasingly sexualized and developing a false 'adulthood' before their time. They are being manipulated to embark on a 'journey of sexual discovery' when they are not yet mature enough to understand the implications. A distorted image of sexual relationships is also planted within the child's mind, an image devoid of any real emotional connection, leaving only the biological urge to serve the self. It is socially and culturally-sanctioned psychological warfare, with children as the targets.
It's obvious that children do not benefit from being prematurely torn from their childhood and thrust into a life of narcissism devoid of fulfillment and emotional connection with others. It's also obvious that the majority of parents do not gain from this state of affairs, so who benefits, anyone?
Essential Psychopathy
Two psychopaths together. Former British PM Margaret Thatcher with notorious pedophile and children's TV presenter, Jimmy Savile. Thatcher's government (in concert with British intelligence) repeatedly covered for pedophile members of her own government and party
With psychopaths in control of many government and corporate institutions that produce popular movies, music, television programs, school curriculums and laws, they are able to direct and manipulate public perception in ways that ultimately benefit the psychopath's agenda. This agenda is being served through a gradual, multi-generational process that is therefore difficult to identify.
For further reading on this topic see the links I have included above or read this article.
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This is surely one of the darkest things about our world. There is no nook or cranny within our society in which one can look and not see pathology rapidly spreading, and now it's come so far that it is right out in the open. Universe, please end this madness!
... for such a well written article! Having two teenage girls myself, the constant threat you have described through this 'modern music' saddens me, but doesn't surprise me anymore. However - knowledge protects, so thanks for sharing this information.
"It's obvious that children do not benefit from being prematurely torn from their childhood and thrust into a life of narcissism devoid of fulfillment and emotional connection with others. It's also obvious that the majority of parents do not gain from this state of affairs, so who benefits, anyone?"
As you say, it only benefits the sick psychopaths in power, through this insidious 'normalization' of pedophilia.
Of course, if a Government were aware enough of this type of 'musical warfare', the attempts to destabilize that society and corrupt their children, and had the common sense and indeed duty, to limit that blatant threat, they would be derided for not allowing "freedom of speech". Remember Pussy Riot anyone?
For further information on how such so-called musical 'useful idiots', can further the Powers That Be agenda, see this excellent article: 'Pussy Riot', the US State Department and Economic Shock Therapy. [Link]
Full of hyperbole and somewhat personal outlook. You read like Mary White (look her up). When all is said and done, what would you suggest is the solution? Further, you write as though all this was new. It's not. There have always been people quite prepared to take advantage of others. 'Twas ever thus.
Also, what of the parents? Abidicating their responsibility and blaming musical culture? As for the ongoing reference to politics, what has that to do with the topic at hand? All in all, more of a rant than a thoughtful piece...
This may not be a 'new' occurence, but in the past 10-20 years things seem to have gotten extremely bad, whether you are willing to acknowledge that or not is your choice. What you are not realising is that this line of influence has the ability to bypass any parental influences.
Miley Virus and others are pawns and tools of the elite, who steal the bodies and souls of our children.
VigilantCitizen is an excellent website which shows the incredible amount of puppeteering (of real humans) in the media and fashion worlds (everybody must do the one-eye salute).
TheHighersideChat has a good podcast about the Franklin pedophile scandal, hushed up by the Bush 1 administration.
Princess Diana was forced to be in a room alone with Jimmy Savile for "marriage counseling". Was she threatened not to divulge what she knew of the Royal Family's abominations?
More than one European country has also had pedophile-ring scandals.
This sickness and depravity goes all the way to the top. It is one reason why they clamp down so hard on the rest of us -- they must keep their crimes unexamined, their destruction of humanity unpunished.
Ultimately, it's about power. There are sex and blood rituals (also in many secret societies) which are engaged in, to call forth demons and other other-wordly powers.
For others, it's a way to demonstrate their power over children and to engage in sadistic, immoral acts for their own twisted pleasure.
Thanks for this disturbing, yet very important article. When I'm in the gym and forced to listen to the Top 40 crap, I always think this is the Evil One himself singing. It's all about glorification of toxic relationships, sexualisation and predatory behavior. Disgusting.
When I was younger I have to admit that I was into all these singers, now looking back I am horrified and can see just how badly I was caught up in it all. It totally distorted my perception, I thought that a woman has to behave sexually to get a guy to like her/ and less clothing= more fashionable... How naive! I turned myself into a sexual object in the name of fashion LOL.. all because society told me this was how girls of my generation are supposed to behave (I know it was my own ignorance/ conditioning) but you're not exactly taught to critically think in our world!
Even though this may not be NEW it is still vitally important, and for kids of today it may well new, something they've never realized before...
Brilliant article Elliot, I really appreciated it!
Sure it was a rant, and mostly a correct one, but like Pierre's piece about s*it modern art, it just underlined the general impotence of the general milieu, in that no one connected with SOTT ever, has shown themselves capable of producing one decent piece of music or one decent piece of art.
Those that can't do, rant, basically.
Same olde, same old. In the 1970s people were concerned Led Zep had put Satanic messages into Stairway to Heaven. In the 1980s, Maddonna was corrupting the youth. In the 1990s, Marilyn Manson was the new Anti Christ. Now pop music is influensing childrens. Damn, I expected much better than SOTT. Stick to writing articlies exposing USA and Nato, ok? You are making yourself look ridicilous.
"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists."
How does this statement disprove or nullify the premise of the article? You're just numbering the years through which children of multiple generations were exposed to vile content. You're not making a point, if anything you're supporting the premise of the article by what you've numbered here.
Do you actually have any argument? Or do you think an argument is numbering depraved artists and concluding through mental idiocy, blocking out reality and cognitive disonance that "well, hey the children are fine right, nothing really happened to em after watching Miley Cirus wave her giant blow up cock in front of their imprintable minds"?
Your world view is exactly the kind of worldview the psychopathic elite wasn't most people to have because it supports their agenda.
Great article, 'Keyhole', and an excellent reply to 'Kym'.
A great many people cannot tell a line (a deadly demarcation point) has been crossed, even after they have themselves have crossed it. This includes some readers of Sott.
'Let's all have another round of harmless, money-making, 'artful' and 'musical' fun. It's been going on for ages!!'
No, let's not.
Again: Great article.
ned, out
There are lot of very interesting material exposing the so called mainstream music industry like this one [Link] or this one [Link]
They put an "artists" on top who serve their agenda ultimately and sold their souls to them or are mind controlled slaves like this poor Miley Cirus one for example
I think they usually choose "artists" who are already relatively brainwashed and are not the most intelligent of the bunch. That way, they don't ask too many questions and are happy to follow instructions for large sums of money. It probably helps if they are either severely damaged, or completely psychopathic as well.
In the near future there will be one focusing on the role of hip hop/rap/RnB in society which should be very interesting indeed!!
From the comments below the video:
'Members of her management team have stated that Gaga absolutely will not sleep alone or be alone in a room for more than a few minutes because of negative entities, aka demons. They say that she has regular hauntings wherever she goes. Lesson of the day: Don't sell your soul if you ain't done using it.'
Looks like some of them "sell their soul to the devil" literally as well?
It's not normal human behavior for sure and i don't think she is on drugs here though i may be wrong
Now at the same time it's all so heavily promoted in the mainstream while big shows, concerts and celebrations have actually nothing to do with music anymore but rather with an occult rituals, symbolism and some kind of worship ceremonies
In some circles, this type of entity-possession and ritual type phenomena probably is rife, but it simply can't be objectively verified here. All that we can really deduce from this is that the pop-music of today's world has been infected with psychopathy. This essentially filters down throughout the rest of society and results in a populace of people who learn to adopt this way of viewing the world and others around them. The process is known as 'ponerization' and was coined by the psychologist Andrew M. Lobaczewski. If your interested in learning more you can find his book called "Political Ponerology". It's truly a must-read for everyone.
I'm curious how children would develop in a soulful Community with a paleo or keto diet and educational toys expanded to cover astronomy, biochemistry, sound wave modeling, fluid mechanics (toy ships,submarines) magnetism, gravity/water modeling and electromagnetism - adjusted to all ages?
How their minds would grow by Not encountering nowadays abominations pouring out of TV / Media gadgets.
There are so many super-interesting creative activities - astronomy puzzles, child-toy level molecular model games and later DNA and enzyme modeling, magnetic and electric models and water pipe modeling:
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As a musician, it is sad to see how the once-thriving music scene with its myriad labels has been swallowed up by 3 or 4 huge corporations. Consumers have the choice to boycott commercial music and discover the MANY GREAT independent musicians who make wholesome music. Try Soundcloud, Last FM or youtube to find these great artists. YOU have a CHOICE!
Wow, what a screwed up article. They are blaming the women for paeodophilia instead of the men. Please don't listen to this crap. Women are NEVER TO BLAME for any kind of sexual abuse. This rape culture way of thinking needs to stop. What anyone wears, does or listens to does not give the right to anyone to abuse. Teach the men not to rape instead of how girls should stay buttoned up.
This is not about placing blame on either gender. I am really quite confused where you have got the idea from that this article is attempting to blame women for sexual abuse and rape. Try reading it again without your emotional biases.
The fact is that this rape culture, paedophillia and just a generally psychopathic mindset is actually being pushed by the music industry itself by using prominent female idols to promote these ideals. This is not blaming "women" in any sense, it is pinpointing the psychopaths who are in control industry. Certainly an insidious ploy.
Your comment is assuming that Miley, and other women in the public eye chooses what to wear and what to do. They have stylists and other 'guru's' who decide for them, who are probably being directed by their record producers and whoever is on top. The fact is that these women are being objectified and influencing other young women/ men to do the same, regardless of gender, its the destruction of human values that is the issue here.
Can you honestly say Miley is a good role model for anyone? Can you say that the lyrics quoted above are good for a child to hear?
I believe this particular article is focused on females because men don't appear in music videos, nearly stark naked that often, in the music industry/ media, it seems that women get their fame by following the motto "sex sells" .
Men play a different role in this which I trust will be explained later, but abdicating the responsibility these women in the public eye have, of setting an example for the impressionable people of today does not do anyone any good.
What this article is saying is that music and society in general, conditioning people to think psychopathically is to blame. NOT the women as you seem to think.
Ljh would make an excellent cop or soldier.
Has an excellent outlook and the proper disposition for either position.
Shoot first, shoot 'straight' and don't bother to ask any questions.
Put 3 billion Ljh's on one side and give them a blue coat.
Put 3 billion Ljh's on the other side and give them a grey coat.
Have yourself a WAR PARTY....
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"Miley succeeds merely in glamorising and openly promoting pathologically, hyper-sexualised ideals such as excessive promiscuity, bisexuality, the public use of sexual paraphernalia and explicit drug misuse. Basically, this is pedophilic sexual debauchery presented to us in the form of a mentally-disturbed 22 year old girl with the emotional maturity of the average politician. It's not surprising then that the bulk of her target audience is between the ages of 6-14 year olds. In the name of "feminism" and "freedom", it is possible that Miley truly believes that parading her infectious filth across the world for young, vulnerable minds to absorb is acting in favour of the "greater good" and standing up for women's rights to express their sexuality. But what Miley believes is irrelevant. What she achieves is to support the goal of our pathocratic system to produce as many intellectually and emotionally-stunted adolecents as possible, to fill the ranks of the up and coming political class."
If the writer of this article knows anything about Hollywood, the music industry and mind control, then he should know that Miley is probably under the influence of someone and has a handler, just like Nicki Minaj, Kesha, Katy Perry, and all the other overtly sexualised women who have illuminati symbolism in their videos. I mean, you look at the video for "Die Young" by Kesha, there are pentagrams, inverted crosses, referrences to satanic rituals, and Kesha herself wearing very little. It is turning young people into ego-driven highly sexualised psychopaths without them even realising, because it makes them easier to control. Mine was the first generation, the 80's kids, who they did this to. They've just got better and cleverer at it ever since.
Does this article state otherwise? If you read clearly you would have picked up on this :
"In the name of "feminism" and "freedom", it is possible that Miley truly believes"
Notice the "it is possible". What I am saying is that these superstars are merely pawns on a chessboard being put to use by those very handlers ie the psychopaths who call the shots in the music industry (and all other industry for that matter). They are the victims of this manipulation just as everyone else is, and I have no doubt that Miley etc really believe that what they are doing is standing up for "womens rights". Can you please point out where this "rape culture way of thinking" shows in the writing?
You are another who has misinterpreted the meaning of this article. Read it again.
...it's always interesting to read comments; invariably there will be several commenters who evince no apparent digestion of the material, its primary themes, etc. Basically, they started reading with a certain picture in mind, and every line they read seems to reflect to them this preconceived image. Then there are those who do digest the material, but find some offense to their sense of superiority that incites them to "strain at gnats and swallow camels," as the saying goes.
I'm not immune to any of these responses, so I deliberately read and re-read material, and when I discuss it, I allow for my conclusions to be challenged and updated by others who are engaged in the same process. It is a practice I vigorously recommend.
Great article, and thanks for sharing!
study of the symbols that rule our world though music and media [Link] .