Selwyn Duke, New American, 4/24
Whether you consider Satan sinister spirit or symbol, he’s assuredly in style. A good example is the 2016-2021 series Lucifer; a more recent one is a concert put on by aging pop star Madonna, an event including a reportedly blasphemous use of a prayer hymn that narrates Jesus’s crucifixion.
Of course, many will dismiss this as being more marketing than malevolence. But then there’s this:
There’s also an allegation that many of entertainment’s biggest stars are satanists.
Does this matter, that what symbolizes pure evil in Western tradition is being normalized as a source of pleasure? Is it not, some may wonder, like legitimizing Nazism and making it chic?
Commentator Andrea Widburg reports on Madonna’s latest effort:
Forty years after she attained pop star fame, Madonna is still packing stadiums. Once, she did this by selling sex. Now, she does it by selling Satanism.
…It’s really not clear whether Madonna believes in anything at all…. Her evolution over the years has had less to do with spiritual searching and almost everything to do with maintaining her fame. She looks at the zeitgeist and decides how to profit from it.
Madonna, who is nobody’s fool, has clearly decided that today’s zeitgeist is Satanism. Although it is possible that the same woman who once professed to be a kabbalist — that is, a student of Jewish mysticism — isn’t just an opportunist but is, in fact, a Satanist.
Of course, many will find this unsurprising from a woman who adopted a name for the Virgin Mary (the real Madonna and the antithesis of “Madonna”) and then sold salaciousness.
Widburg then adds that “if you’re thinking it’s an exaggeration to say the above was Satanic, it’s important to note that the intro to that segment in her show was a Sam Smith/Kim Petras song called ‘Unholy.’ That song makes no bones about its being an homage to Satan. The title is a giveaway, but it’s the video that really tells the tale.”
t also tells the tale about our cultural state: The video has 238 million views on YouTube alone.
By the way, the name “Kim Petras” raised my eyebrows. I reported on this individual many years ago when he (correct pronoun) was touted as the “world’s youngest transsexual” after he appeared on German TV, in 2006 at age 13, and discussed his SDTs (sexual distortion treatments). Now, lo and behold, he’s a pop star. Talk about a transition.
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I’m guessing that most or nearly all of them are merely playing at being satanic, thinking that it ups their “cool” factor which appeals to rebellious youth. I’d say they just have photo-optics in mind. It can also be seen as another rebellious and naive counter-cultural movement with no real evil intended. Unfortunately, that can have unintended real consequences because the subject matter is quite real; pretend, not so much.
Madonna was seemingly satanic from her beginnings, so she may not be pretending. There may be others like her who really want to be satanic.