Ted Cruz calls Grammy performance "evil"

Post Reply New Topic

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/ted-cruz-called-sam-smith-and-kim-petras-grammys-performance-evil/ar-AA17aV7h?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=19e80216a2914ae690d41872d6c3b582

Between our sh*t-for-brains senator and our sh*t-for-brains governor, I am embarrassed to be from here.

I dare say it's more a sign of Satanism to take food out of the mouths of hungry people, and to call them leaches and eaters.

I guess it would depend on where your loyalties lie. Sam was performing as Satan, so if you love Satan, you're in Heaven. It's all relative.

And high-tail it to Cancun while people in their state are literally freezing to death.

Be grateful. You could live in Florida.

I guess it would depend on where your loyalties lie. Sam was performing as Satan, so if you love Satan, you're in Heaven. It's all relative.

I seriously doubt he's actually enamored with Satan. Musicians have used Satanic imagery for decades now, without really being Satanists.

WHEN rock-and-roll enjoyed its initial surge of popularity in the mid-50's, many fundamentalist Christians recoiled in horror. To them, rock's ''savage rhythms,'' and the thinly concealed sexual double entendre of many rock-and-roll lyrics, made it ''the Devil's music.'' A number of churches encouraged their younger members to participate in record burnings, in which quantities of rock-and-roll disks were dutifully tossed into bonfires

The Satanic panic is a moral panic consisting of over 12,000 unsubstantiated cases of Satanic ritual abuse (SRA, sometimes known as ritual abuse, ritualistic abuse, organized abuse, or sadistic ritual abuse) starting in the United States in the 1980s, spreading throughout many parts of the world by the late 1990s, and persisting today

An ever-vanishingly small audience enjoyed, or at least witnessed, our culture’s latest Hunger Games-esque award show on Sunday evening: the 2023 Grammy Awards.

According to the internet, Sam Smith, alongside Kim Petras, stole the show with a performance of the aptly named “Unholy,” a confusing compilation of lyrics clumsily sewn together with lazy sexualization and more unnecessary branding than a NASCAR event. Fendi, Balenciaga, Prada, and Miu Miu are all included, as well as a bizarre reference to Rihanna, alongside Shakespearean lines such as “Mummy don’t know daddy’s getting hot at the body shop, doin’ somethin’ unholy.”

But Smith isn’t exactly the first “artist” to mimic Satan for attention.

In 2021, Lil Nas X went through a Satanic phase, grinding on Satan during “Motero (Call Me by Your Name)” and even releasing a line of footwear infused with actual blood.

Madonna has repeatedly clung to relevance with a combination of Botox and satanic staging.

And what about Marilyn Manson?

So, why is Smith bringing up the rear by cannon-balling into this already crowded pool? Well, it’s simple. It’s not because Smith is satanic.

No, the reality here is that Smith is an unoriginal performer desperate for attention, and our divided media apparatus is all too happy to oblige. On the Left, he is cheered. On the Right, he is condemned. The Left responds to the Right, while the Right responds to the Left. More reactions, more clicks, more outrage, and the cycle goes on.

All while Smith gorges on notoriety, feeding his insatiable hunger for attention. Don’t forget: Everything he does is a calculated pursuit of attention. This is the same man who came out as gay following the release of his first album in 2014. No one really cared.

When his second album was released in 2017, Smith then came out, again, as “genderqueer,” saying, “I feel just as much a woman as I am a man.” And again, no one really cared.

A few months before the release of his third album, Smith came out for the third time, with the latest label being “nonbinary.”

But Smith is now discovering a problem: When your entire brand hinges on identity-based edginess, you’ve got to continue with a neverending stream of new identities. Otherwise, your true identity, a boring and irrelevant performer, might shine through.

I seriously doubt he's actually enamored with Satan. Musicians have used Satanic imagery for decades now, without really being Satanists.