Sunday, September 11, 2011

The Devil's Music

Well at a young age I came to listen to rock and roll the first artist I ever heard was Marilyn Manson and

 thought rock was the greatest thing in the world.

Unfortunately my mom did not think the same when she came home from work she asked me how my day

 was and what did I do I said I had a good day and that I hung out with Starla in her room.

She then asked what did I do with Starla in her room and I told her I listened to Marilyn Manson.

Well the smile faded from her face and she went into my sisters room and ransacked the room until she found it.

She then told me that Marilyn Manson was very bad and that I souldn't be listening to it and niether sould Starla.

I begged and pleaded with her not to punish Starla because I didn't want her to get in trouble because I didn't know that it was bad.

But when we went to church one sunday I couldn't see how rock and roll could be bad then the pastor when

 he use to sweat when he preached use to say rock and roll was the devils music and of course I was young

didn't understand and was afarid of going to hell.

So afarid of going to hell I trusted mom and the preacher and didn't listen to it anymore but I never could

quite understand why they believed rock and roll was the devils music because it just sounded too awesome

to be true.

I didn't get a chance to listen to it again until my dad decided to come back in my life which was so long ago 

I don't really remember how old I was.

But dad started to itroduce me to new stuff and because he was my dad I trusted him that we wouldn't go to

hell for listening to rock and roll he introduced me to the beatles I got beatlemania and all kinds of new rock

and roll.

(It was new to me anyway this was actually old classic stuff that I am talking about.)

I didn't tell mom about it for the longest time but after awhile but she knew she couldn't do anything she tried

to tell me it was wrong and I nodded my head to keep my mom happy but then I said the exact opposite to

dad becuase I beileved him that it wasn't the devil's music I couldn't possibly go to hell for listening to

something that just was so awesome and thats when music became my life.

1 comment:

  1. In the 80's, there was this huge "satanic panic" wherein preachers all over the south were screaming the perils of rock music. At our church, they had a service where we were supposed to bring all of our music from home and throw it in a barrel and burn it. I only took the music I didn't really like. I was sure God was going to be really angry with me for not taking ALL of it.

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