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Pop music videos are the most popular YouTube videos. The total views of the top 29 music videos in 2015 was 26 billion, and most of them they are filthy.
The music has destroyed biblical morality in Western culture. It is at the heart and soul of end-time apostasy.
Themes: personal liberty, narcissism - “I’m free to do what I want any old time” (Rolling Stones, 1965); moral relativism - “So what we get drunk/ So what we smoke weed … Living young and wild and free” (“Young, Wild and Free,” Snoop Dog and Wiz Khalifa, 2011; “And ain’t nobody, and ain’t nobody, Ain’t nobody gonna tell me how to live. Oh, gonna soar like an eagle/ My wings will carry me away/ I’ve got the heart of a lion/ And I get stronger every day” (Kid Rock, “Don’t Tell Me How to Live,” 2021); sex - “That’s what rock is all about--sex with a 100 megaton bomb, THE BEAT!” (Gene Simmons of the rock group KISS); unity and non-judgmentalism (“Everyday People” by Sly and the Family Stone “makes no difference what group I’m in ... different strokes for different folks ... we got to live together”). Fantasy - The music claims that romance and money and pleasure will make me happy and give me a good life, but it is a lie. Consider “My Girl” by David Ruffin, former lead singer for Temptations. “I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day; When it's cold outside, I’ve got the month of May; I’ve got so much honey, the bees envy me. I’ve got a sweeter song than the birds in the trees. What can make me feel this way? My girl.” Ruffin was addicted to cocaine; abused his wives and girlfriends; hit one on the head with motorcycle helmet; proposed to one woman when he was already married to another. His inflated ego and erratic behavior forced him out of Temptations. Two years before his death he began living with 14-year-old fan. He died at age 50 of an overdose of crack cocaine. It was no life of sunshine and honey sweetness, and Ruffin was typical of those who live the pop music lifestyle.
The world’s music has been a major part of the destruction of the moral character of black churches and homes. Consider the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival (documented in “Summer of Soul”). It consisted of six concerts attended by 300,000. It was called a “revolution,” and it was driven by music. There was the mixing of every type of music: filthy blues and boogie woogie and rock (B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder) with Gospel (Mahalia Jackson “Precious Lord, Take My Hand”; Staple Singers “Help me Lord Jesus I need your power”; Gladys Knight and the Pips - “We join our hands and said prayers before going on stage”). The Fifth Dimension mixed “Aquarius” from the filthy opera Hair about the new age with “Let the Sun Shine In” a gospel song by Stuart Hamblin, 1954; Edwin Hawkins Singers “O Happy Day” (“when Jesus washed my sins away; He taught me how to watch and pray and live rejoicing every day”). This is a jazzed up version of a godly hymn by Philip Doddridge 1755. The Edwin Hawkins Singers’ version consists of endless repetition of the chorus only; “O Happy Day” is repeated 21 times. The Harlem Cultural Festival was a merging of philosophy and religion. There was Black Marxism (Nina Simone shouted to the crowd, “Are you ready to smash White things, to burn things?”); Black Power (Black Panthers); Voodoo (there was a voodoo dance); Black Islam; Christianity; Jesse Jackson said, “I want us to bow our heads in prayer. It does not really matter who your God is, whether you call him Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Elohiym, or Yahway” (Summer of Soul).
Woodstock took place the same summer with the same philosophy; a revolution of moral relativism “propelled on a wave of music.”
This represents the heart and soul of pop music. It has never been godly and cannot be sanctified.
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