(Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from 17-year-old student writer “Butterfly02″ in Jeff LeJeune’s English 102 course, 16 November 2023. Some liberties have been taken with paragraph breakage to more fit the blog model)
For many decades, music has been casually infiltrated with numerous types of subliminal messaging. A recurring trend with new and upcoming artists is the vast parade of satanic and demonic imagery throughout their public appearance.
It doesn’t just stop at imagery either. Music artists blatantly flaunt fiendish outfits, lyrics, music videos, social media profiles, and even performances live-streamed to the whole world–particularly on mainstream platforms. Many individuals see these actions only as an attempt to catch the public’s attention, or perhaps the public’s cognitive dissonance is too great to believe that these satanic actions are truly occurring. However, for those who do see through this facade and choose to condemn it, they are oftentimes labeled as lunatic conspiracy theorists.
A trending musical sensation–Doja Cat, whose real name is Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini–has recently prospered in pop culture for displaying these things publicly about every aspect of her life and is basically pushing her satanic disposition over innocent fans. By hearing constant references about satan and selling their souls to him, scores of fans are undoubtedly adopting this sinister stance, else she wouldn’t be promoting it.
Innocent bystanders of society don’t even realize the extreme influence of repeatedly listening to the same message through lyrics.
Her satanic guise became so evident this year when she released an album named Scarlet, which was previously named Hellmouth, and included these top hits: “Skull and Bones,” “Demons,” and “Paint the Town Red”–all titles and songs that allude to demonic and satanic imagery, performances, and references. In today’s societal norm, Doja Cat’s fans worship the degradation of her musical content and the worshippers must open their eyes and ears, not to mention their souls, to realize just how reprehensible this content is and the eternal danger they are putting themselves in.
Doja boasts her sickening persona by flooding her social media with demonic pictures, and calls fans expletive names when they react to such ludicrous behavior. One time she impulsively changed her profile picture to a disturbing image of a “demonic-looking photo” and it “appears to have a red background and an evil-looking figure that has its tongue out” (Nambiar para. 2). Horrified by Doja’s recent actions, fans are responding by unfollowing her.
With such a strong social media presence, she continues to make it abundantly clear that she doesn’t care about losing followers because she claims that she feels free and even calls her fans degrading pejoratives because they have the audacity to react with such hostility. Because she enjoys terrorizing her followers so much–particularly to the point of them unfollowing her–Doja is exhibiting sadistic traits. Watching and mocking her supporters’ pain and anger simply demonstrates how extremely deranged and psychotic she is.
Her satanic illustrations go further than a silly social media profile picture when she begins shocking fans with her demonic tattoos, including baal on her forearm and a giant bat skeleton spanning across her back, which symbolizes “new beginnings”–in her case, satanic ones (Kickham para. 3). By endorsing this satanic imagery and exhibiting it to her susceptible fans, she becomes a walking satanic sermon preaching that “social media can become a vehicle for psychic contamination” and it “breed[s] incitements to hate and violence” (Rowland 2). This psychic pollution is especially harmful to the fans of Doja. Even though this behavior is blatantly demonic, she recognizes it as a form of self-expression and has no remorse in demonstrating it to her fans. She is visibly grooming her fans into believing that her demonic and satanic identity is an acceptable lifestyle. It is just truly incomprehensible how her fans are supporting and worshiping her demonic guise.
Ian Giatti, a seasoned ministry leader, is particularly attentive to the insidious nature of Doja Cat’s music videos. In her new hit single “Paint the Town Red,” Doja doesn’t spare the innocent minds and eyes of viewers. The music video “has no shortage of satanic imagery, including the artist literally dancing on top of some sort of horned demon head while wearing a sleeve decorated with–you guessed it–red pentagrams” (Giatti para. 14). Clearly, Doja’s passion for promoting satan is unfaltering, because all she does throughout this music video is make sure it is “in our face, [and] on our children’s devices” (Giatti para. 26). The mainstream media strives to spread this satanic imagery as far as possible–generating a sense of normality to the American public. Doja “also flirts with the Grim Reaper while wearing an all-red hooded dress, eats raw meat while wearing a cross necklace and shirt with the word “FERAL,” and again wears horns on her head while getting familiar with another dark horned figure” (Giatti para. 15). Frankly, pure satanism won’t become more obvious than this.
Such visual stimuli is especially harmful to the millions of impressionable viewers that Doja has acquired. Clearly, Giatti is spotlighting just how possessed she seems to be in this music video. Giatti’s use of “also” and “again” is so spot on in describing her music career because it is not just here, it is in her whole album–whether it is hidden or simply popping out of the screen.
Unsurprisingly, Doja cannot resist attributing satan in the lyrics of her song and flat out confesses she sold her sold to the devil. She even influences her fans to do the same. This is illustrated in her hit song “Skull and Bones,” where Doja claims that her fans “been pushin’ ‘Satan this’ and ‘Satan that’ / My fans is yellin’, ‘Least she rich,’ you need that pact” (2:28). Here, Doja admits that she has been called out by her fans for her unforgivable behavior, but she dismisses the issue and instead boasts that she is blessed to have a deal with the devil. This evil agenda is shoved into the listener’s ears and, ultimately, poses a severe effect on how humans cognitively perform. It has been proven that “music can create a short-lasting association between product and affective stimulus by mood induction” (Egermann et al. 30). This means that listeners are in danger of representing the satanic traits infiltrated throughout the lyrics of a song, and they will associate their mood and actions to it, which is exactly what Doja Cat wants. More frighteningly, it is what satan wants, as Doja’s deal with him prescribes that she must gather and groom more of her worshippers and turn them into full blown satanists.
Such reprehensible music can also possess “affective conditioning” which “can create a longer-lasting connection between a product and an affective stimulus” (Egermann et al. 30). Listeners will undeniably develop a lifelong psychological relationship with the content of the music, which here is damningly satanic. Just by knowing what type of music someone listens to can give reason to their behavior and give insight on exactly what influences their choices. If someone makes devious choices, the very music shoved down their ears could be the hidden hand pushing them towards the eternal fire.
Furthermore, many “customers’ music preferences are the best predictors for strength of influence” (Egermann et al. 30). Doja’s truly devoted fans are aware of the bone-chilling meaning behind her songs, but they simply do not care. Her fans will inadvertently sing and hum the tune to these despicable songs which, frankly, just elevates her popularity and may very well plummet them straight to the fiery depths of hell.
Knowing her fans will just about worship anything she produces, Doja Cat will continue to endorse satanic and demonic pictures, performances, and lyrics to the whole world. She possesses a sick sense of pride in promoting the devil, but her worshippers think it is justified only because she is a popular artist–which is made evident by her 24.4 million Instagram followers. Doja is the Mockingbird media’s pawn to ensure that the public remains in a state of fear that they just cannot escape–just how our unhinged overlords like it. Anything this demon lord touches is immediately infected with satanic sludge, and Americans must extricate themselves from the mud swallowing fans into her devilish ways.
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Works Cited
Cat, Doja. “Skull and Bones.” Spotify, Ayo The Producer & Kaeyos, 2023.
Egermann, Hauke, et al. “Is there an effect of subliminal messages in music on choice behavior?” Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis, vol. 4, no. 2, 23 Oct. 2006, pp. 30-46,
Giatti, Ian M. “Review: Doja Cat shows us her horns with ‘Demons.’” The Christian Post, 5 Sept. 2023.
Kickham, Dylan. “DOJA COVERED HER WHOLE BACK WITH A GIANT BAT TATTOO & IT ACTUALLY HAS A DEEP MEANING.” Elite Daily, 6 May 2023.
Nambiar, Prerna. “DOJA CAT CHANGES HER TIKTOK PROFILE PICTURE TO DEMONIC FACE AND CONFUSES FANS.” HITC, 10 Mar. 2023.
Rowland, Susan. “How the Narcissistic and Demonic Power of the Media can be countered by Jungian Arts-based Research.” Analysis and Activism 2020 + U.S. Presidency Conference, pp. 1-10.
