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Music & Subliminal Messages

Do you think the Youth of the Church are not careful enough about the kind of music they listen to?

Here are some points to consider:

1. Music is influential and plays with one's subconcious
2. Music brings moods and feelings
3. Some groups have admitted to using subliminal messages in order to get people to listen to their music
4. Some musicians have admitted to calculating their music to do immoral things
5. Many of the modern famous vocalists have very little concept of family, morality and being a good citizen, so what are they as far as an example goes?
6. Do you believe that there is such a thing as subliminal messages in music and video? Do you believe it can really cause you to act in a certain way? Some cinemas admit to using quick flicks of 'buy food' 'buy drinks' to get patrons to go to the cinema's cafeteria to purchase food and drink.

What are your thoughts on this subject? Have you seen anyone influenced by music? How did they change?

Messages Subliminal and Music

Yes I believe that subliminal messages are real.  The mind has a photographic memory and stores images in your subconcious and they do influence you but you still have the choice to indulge or supress the thought and determin whether it will become an action.  

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Sometimes the message doesn't have to be even subliminal and the people still like it even though it goes against their beliefs. Look at the example of Eminem, swearing and calling all kind of names to women and the girls are crazy about the guy EVEN though he says all kind of stupid things like that :
I don't blame so much to the singers but come on, the people should know better than that! what's wrong with them? do they need a brain transplant? : sorry for being so direct.

Messages Subliminal and Music

Yes a lot of messages are very direct but what JB is asking is about the ones that are not obvious and are hidden but the brain picks up on it.  

Some people have done some pretty horrifying things because they say that they heard it in a song, a subliminal message or something.  LIke they were hypnotized.  But I think that is just an excuse for doing something that they were already willing to do.

I saw a hypnotist show one time and he had hypnotized much of the audience, but one thing he said is that he cannot make you do anything that you wouldn't voluntarily do already.  He can't make you do anything you don't want to.

This is not exactly coinciding with the topic, but I think it is the same with subliminal messages in music or in movies etc...There can be a message put in your brain, but you still have the choice to act upon it or not.

Messages Subliminal and Music

I agree with you. I was reading the newspaper about a guy who killed his 79 years olf neighboor when he was only 15 years old, he blamed the tv show Koyak for what happened but since years passed from this incident when his lawyer tried to defend him with this argument, the guy testified against his own lawyer saying that the argument about the TV show is dumb.
People can listen to all kind of music, it doesn't mean they have to believe what it says or do what the songs tell them to do regardless if it's subliminal or not. Only if there is a willingness to do something evil, then they will do it.

Music & Subliminal Messages

Well keep in mind that the brain absorbs well when it is constantly fed information, even if it is background information - meaning that you are not intentionally focusing on what is being said, but you can still hear it. Therefore if we hear something often enough we will believe it and take it as truth. With that in mind think of some of the lyrics of music we hear these days!

Music & Subliminal Messages

Even the rhythm, harmony, and instrumentation of music can have a pronounced effect. For example, try checking out the serial opera 'Wozzeck' by Alban Berg from your local library. It's bizarre, and very dark. By the end, you feel like dying. Or try Penderecki's 'Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima.' In that piece, the string orchestra imitates an air raid. No actual violence is occurring - it is only people tapping their cellos and playing masses of sound, but it is haunting and unsettling. By playing either of these pieces on my CD player, I can change the entire feeling in the room.

This music is not palatable to the modern teenage audience, but it exemplifies a widespread property of music - it speaks to the soul. Certain parts of the musical language draw the subconscious in a specific direction. It may have very little to do with the lyrics or the speed of the song. Some slow, introspective songs make me feel very positive. Some fast, loud songs make me sad. Some percussive patterns, vocal tones, guitar techniques or synthesizer styles tend to make one feel energetic, calm, uncomfortable, sexy, rebellious, righteous, tired, etc.

My advice is this - if it doesn't feel right, turn it off. Even if the lyrics are clean and the song is popular. Everything we hear is carefully engineered, and a loss of the Spirit is a failsafe warning.