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Quote of the Day: To the Devil with the Grammys
As a matter of fact, no, I didn’t watch the Grammy Awards. But I did something almost as foolish, I looked at Twitter the day after the Grammy Awards.
And there I learned that Madonna (or a grim reproduction of Madonna) is still alive, appeared at the awards, and cried to the audience, “Are you ready for a little controversy?” And apparently, out came people who presented some facsimile of Satanic worship. Now I’ll have to admit that I haven’t kept up with all of the latest modern acts, but I assume Mick Jagger came out to sing “Sympathy for the Devil,” or maybe Alice Cooper or Ozzy Osborne, because this tired routine has been going on for decades now.
And right on cue, there were people on Twitter upset by the upswing in Satanism in Modern Music and other Twitter people upset that people were taking this “musical” act seriously. And both sides seem to perfectly exemplify what C.S. Lewis said in the introduction to his classic satire, The Screwtape Letters:
There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them.
These surrogates for Satan love to scream and shout, “Look at me! Look at me!” And then they are shocked and offended when people look at them and are shocked and offended. These devils really deserve to be ignored. But what to do when our children don’t?
Published in Entertainment
https://babylonbee.com/news/horrified-satan-distances-self-from-grammys
In his defense, Alice Cooper has been a born-again Christian for years.
And teaches Sunday school, even. And helps out in a homeless shelter. He did another interview with a Christian magazine here in Germany recently.
I don’t think the mainstreaming of satan worship is something to be ignored. We’ve ignored everything the Left has done for all my life and we end up here with misguiding and then castrating children.
Hollywood awards shows can safely be ignored, but I agree that the mainstreaming of satan worship needs to be countered. Outrage works with some entities but I’m thinking the best response is pity. These are tortured souls crying out for attention.
It’s the unrelenting ugliness of it all that always strikes–and disappoints–me. People with all the money in the world, and the best they can do with it is render themselves hideous, and then writhe around in public in hideous ways, while impersonating bizarre and sacrilegious sex acts which are supposed to horrify and shock those who are too “white” or uptight to appreciate them, and as they congratulate each other on their superiority to the rest of us. As the OP points out, most youth find it difficult to ignore, or not to take on aspects of, the popular culture they are steeped in (especially when their parents don’t instill in them the ability to think for themselves). Frankly, when I see garbage like this beamed into (potentially) every living room in America starting in what’s the pretty early evening, I’m not surprised the youth are as miserable and anxiety-ridden as they are about what is to come. When their elders and their idols clearly hate themselves, why should the youth feel any different?
(No, I didn’t watch it. I was watching another program which showed an excerpt, with commentary.)
I will take straight up Satan worship over Liberal “churches” promoting sin in the name of Christ.
And “Sympathy for the Devil” had a much better beat, so if you are going to be evil, at least be able to carry a tune.
Handing the Bee straight lines is the only continuing justification for the Grammys.
well, I think that is true for much of the media & entertainment industries
I think the appropriate response to such idiocy is laughter. And lots of mockery.
They only feign shock and offense, in reality they are laughing all the way to the bank.
If Cooper wasn’t a born-again Christian in 1973, he was certainly still making fun of the worst aspects of youth culture. I remember that he was suddenly out of fashion with my brother’s crowd by the fall of 1973. I think it was because, by then, it had finally dawned on them he was mocking their posture and professed values.
Don’t ask me how, in the spring of 1973, my brother was still unaware of the real message in “School’s out” considering the words…
“Well, we got no class
And we got no principals
And we got no intelligence
We can’t even think of a word that rhymes, well”
But before the fall of 1973, he (my brother) did get an Alice Cooper album that included the words to his songs written out. Maybe, he read them one day, before smoking his morning joint.
Well, one thing came out of the Grammys. According to MSNBC horseface (or perhaps horse’s arse) Joy Reid, we Conservatives “…literally cannot win” because the Grammys signaled “total defeat” for us in the culture wars.
Hard to figure out how these peoples’ brains work.
https://dailycaller.com/2023/02/06/joy-reid-ron-desantis-grammys-culture-war/
The excerpt I watched was a relief. It was just too inept, I thought, to have an alluring or mesmerizing effect on anyone. Watching it is like watching lewd behavior on an Alzheimer’s unit. It’s pathetic.
I do want to put a “Shout Out” of much thanks and appreciation to Madonna on behalf of older women everywhere who had maybe been feeling how they have not aged well.
And thanks I don’t have the money for plastic surgery – if this is what it does for you!
We watched bits and pieces and I watched some of the runway glam. That summed up a lot right there. Trans this and that, lots of devilish red, carpet, flowers, outfits – not surprised. I didn’t see Madonna until this post and looked at it. She has had more plastic surgery and fillers than the Chinese balloon. I’ll be surprised if she completes this big tour. She looks unhealthy. The music industry is a mess – plain and simple…….
I will add that we watched the musical tribute to all that passed this last year. It was very very moving and so well done. It’s hard to believe so many are gone. If you didn’t see that part of the show, it’s well worth watching.