They sold their souls for Rock and Roll
That's the title of a television programme one of my teachers showed us. No, it doesn't have to do a thing with Megaman. It refers to the music, and to the selling of souls-thing.
They showed a piece of text from the Bible, saying that the end of the world will come when humans turn away from God, start worshipping Satan, kill other people for no real reason and so.
It said that many Rock lyrics contained texts that deliberately told people to go kill people for no real reason. The same goes mainly for rappers.
It said that two guys in highschool killed 15 of their fellow students in 1999 in a town called Columbine. In an interview after their arrest you could clearly look at their shirts, which had prints and texts from their favourite German rockband. In one of this band's songs, it is literally described how the guys operated. The members of the band themselves said that their songs "Could never bring people to do things like this". However, as the programme also showed a part of one of their concerts, in which they played that particular song, they sing about killing people and enjoy it to no end.
Then a part about Marilyn Manson came. "The time has come for us to turn away from the facism of christianity and bring it down" he literally says.
Now, at this point I thought: "In what way is christianity facism?"
It just doesn't make any sense.
Also a piece of Eminem came up. In a record called 'Kim', he sung/rapped about how he killed his wife. In it's 'sequel' how he dumped her body into a lake with his 4-year old daughter. And another record is about a fan of his who kills his pregnant girlfriend just like Eminem did to his wife in his song/rap.
They also had an interview with a priest of Satan. He said that they "take them while their young", so that they'll "worship Satan forever" and more of this kind of things. He said that they use music as a weapon of Satan to make people start worshipping him. (note that I didn't capitalized the h in him).
In an interview with members of a rock band, one guy said "your kids have our records, they just listen when you're not there! They listen it in your own car!"
After that, they show us a fifties song, which looks like it's about believing in God, with texts like "Halleluja" "Sweet Lord" and the lot. But after the point that people started to join in the song, "Halleluja" changes to "Hare Krishna" meaning the devil.
This all to make us worship Satan.
They also showed concerts in which things really went wrong, and the songs mainly contained violent and satanic texts. In 1999, 20 people were killed and 68,000 severely injured during these kind of concerts.
After we saw all that, my friend said it was all bullshit, save maybe that those rough bands do all those things and such, but that about Eminem was false. That he has been a racist and such, but that he doesn't rap about those things anymore.
I think many of those things are true. Or at least very, very plausible. Eminem has done those things and was a racist before he went to jail one time or another, and he does it less now. He still does some things that aren't right, or raps about them, but it's much less now.
About those bands, that's something I think is very true. Band members, and Marilyn as well, said that halfway during concerts they felt like a demon took possession of their bodies. My friend said that they just feel like that, that they let themselves be carried away by the music.
Okay, I don't hold the demon-thing for very plausible, but that just shows ever more which way society's going.