A world without America

When it comes to a post-American landscape, if you believe Christian prophecy, it’s got a lot to do with America being Mystery Babylon itself. The nation-state said to corrupt the entire planet with its filth and abominations, as to warrant declining real badly and then getting destroyed. Though the cultural side of things can be harder to patch up that a substitute would have to do, however awkward it maybe (which is how I feel about sermons from things I follow or like). Actually I have been interceding for a lot of people, both strangers and relatives, to cope with certain phenomena like traditional Han Chinese clothing and precolonial clothing getting popularised here in the Philippines. Or to those coming from Ghana, Canada and the like with something similar, that this could lead to very different versions of both Canada and the Philippines by then.

The answers might turn out differently, in the case with the Philippines we might see much less English speakers here, or with so much western influence getting revoked in the Philippines that the only traces are in both religion and names, due to the Philippines not living up to what it proclaims itself to be that over time it will become like any other East Asian nation to a huge degree. Admittedly this is what I wanted since I don’t like how westernised the Philippines is, though the actual answer might be much more than what I wanted. But as a consequence of the Philippines not living up to what its own reputation that in the future, it will be a lot more like its neighbours (including China and Vietnam, which it will look up to more once it becomes socialist) than at present. One where Mandarin replaces English as the other national language of the Philippines, a very different Philippines that’s more sympathetic to China whether if others like it or not.

I have prayed for various Canadian cartoonists to cope with Canada joining Russia, as well as the popularisation of things like Swedish music there, which would also result in a very different Canada as well. It would be nice if something like Georgian folk costumes and Kazakh folk costumes get popularised there, but realistically there’ll still be a demarcation between formal and informal clothing. It’s even like this in China where there’s a distinction between hanfu as worn by commoners and in casual situations, and hanfu as worn by the upper classes and during more formal circumstances. The only real difference this time is that the American version of casual clothing would be no more or at least substantially reduced, particularly when it comes to rather racy garments that draw ire from Christians a lot, not helped by that some clothing companies make a deal with the Devil. To the point where we might even see the last of them in this decade.

Considering that a number of European folk costumes are so elaborately sewn and patterned, that it’s more feasible for them to become influences for a new type of formal clothing in Canada. Likewise a good number of hanfu can be impractical in some circumstances that they could become the new standard or canon for formal or fashionable clothing in the Philippines, with western athleisure being reserved for farming (and may become a marker of provinciality over time). Casual clothing wouldn’t disappear from these countries as much as they take on entirely new permutations and influences, just as formal clothing might take on another permutation for the same reason and circumstance. It’s plausible that athleisure might not disappear from the Philippines but might take on a rustic character instead, seeing that hanfu might not seem practical for farming here as to be more popular among those in more cosmopolitan areas and anywhere close to China.

Conversely speaking, if something like Kazakh and Uzbek folk clothing were to get popularised in Canada, they might result in a new kind of Canadian street style though that’s got to do with Kazakhs and Uzbeks having learnt to dress well for the climate they’re in for centuries. Seeing Canada as we know it is formed much more recently with the earliest European immigrants coming from the more temperate climates predominanting in western Europe, but then again Kazakhstan’s close to China so there’s going to be some cross-pollination between the two before. Something Canada lacked, because it’s so isolated from Eurasia. Getting Swedish, Danish and Norwegian folk costumes popularised in Canada doesn’t constitute that much of a learning curve compared to say Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as they’re also similar to Canada, and Canada has a good number of citizens descended from these countries’ peoples. It wouldn’t be any different if Swedish, Danish and Norwegian music got popularised there.

If because Canada has been exposed to them before to some extent when it comes to bands like Aqua, though in a post-American landscape where American influence has been largely revoked and undone as much as America disappears without much of a trace, such bands become weirdly precious and valuable as reminders that a country called America used to rule the world and its airwaves. Maybe not necessarily so but their own US contemporaries might be mostly forgotten by then, like you’d have to jog your memory in 2063 to know who or what the Backstreet Boys are. Aqua might be seen as a quaint band beloved by senior citizens by then, the equivalent to what the Platters (also an American band) are currently seen as. Let’s not forget that the Backstreet Boys will be judged for their own sins or vices, that no sooner or later more scandals will emerge in public.

Nick Carter might not just be outed for abusing more women (even in snuff videos alongside animals), but also for cheating on his wife by having a fan for a mistress who’s even younger than both of them. AJ McLean has done something similar before, though it would be terrifying if others like Kevin, Howie and Brian might also have their own. If I’m not mistaken, Brian Littrell’s in the news for even suing a police officer for ‘intruding’ on his beach property. He’s been doing this since 2023, while there’s no mistaking that he himself also wants privacy from time to time. But it does make one wonder if he’s not as nice to the general public as previously assumed to be, often telling visitors to back off whilst indulging in his band’s fans in their cruises. He’s kind of okay with getting attention but for as long as it comes from his fans, not from curious or unsuspecting strangers who happen to stumble upon his property from time to time.

I remember this sermon on YouTube insinuating that people like him are arrogant (though I also have this as well), another on the radio said that people like him are wicked. Or worse than you expect them to be, to the point where it seems Brian Littrell’s much unfriendlier to strangers than one realises, moreso that he’s fairly famous. There’s also a picture of Brian Littrell next to what appears to be a pentagram, but it’s not easily searchable for now. It’s even more surprising that he’s a practising Christian, but with people insinuating that he might be evil, so it seems either he isn’t sincere about worshipping God or that he’s gotten worldlier than he should be. Not helped by that he continues to be with his rather unsaved, unrepentant band members for so long that it’s not surprising why he turned out this way, mind you I’ve been around trolling websites fairly often nearly more than a decade ago and it’s only now that I’ve effectively abandoned them for something more edifying.

I even bullied a classmate because others were doing it until it got to me eventually, or similar things I’ve done recently so it proves the Bible right. Even then it does make you wonder how corrupting America (as Mystery Babylon) really gets, albeit in ways one doesn’t anticipate and expect, in terms of having a lot of globally famous musicians who either have dark secrets or are often engaged in scandals themselves. It should be noted that singer Ariana Grande is no stranger to taking men away from their significant others, but what really broke the camel’s back is that she had an affair with a married man who recently had a child with his wife. She might not be the only singer to do this, given AJ and the rest might be doing this for years. The Bible also said that marrying a divorced person could usually constitute as infidelity, as is merely lusting at somebody or something. This isn’t unique to American celebrities either, but that infidelity does often lead to divorce and consuming smut also risks ruining one’s love for their spouse, among other things (it’s like this with me before a lot).

What America has done is to kind of popularise and glamourise this, since many of these people who do these things are in showbiz themselves. A lot more people are exposed to popular music, Hollywood movies and programmes, than they are to more highbrow stuff that inevitably it kind of normalises these actions alongside things like polyamory (another form of consensual nonmonogamy like polygyny of yore), also a number of these celebrities doing this are those people are aware of before. In some cases these are people that fans grew up with together in a way, in being not only privy to these things but also kind of normalising these actions in another way. It’s like this with sexualised garments that people like Cher and Catherine Bach have effectively popularised and normalised over time, mind you short shorts were once considered really risque that Bach had to wear tights with those later on. Cher also got into trouble for showing her bellybutton in public, but come the 2010s and 2020s these garments have become normal, everyday wear for women who may not even be prostitutes themselves.

(Or are they in a way?)

There’s a Bible verse that explicitly links sexualised garments to hyperssexuality that even if it’s not true for all women who dress this way, it’s often like this with a number of female celebrities which proves it right. I have dressed immodestly before and I also struggle with lust, which is likely also the same with one cousin of mine who lost her own husband to her lusting over the books she reads (the whole reaping what you sow thing). It’s very much the case with somebody like Britney Spears who admitted to reading smutty books and wanking, having gone through men like tissues and wears immodestly too, or her own contemporary Christina Aguilera as well. There’s a blogger that I follow who doesn’t like Christian modesty and get this, she doesn’t just appear in sexy calendars herself, she even reads porn too. Cher had dressed like this and also went through husbands like tissue paper, or Ariana Grande but with boyfriends and then having an affair with someone else’s husband. Even Beyonce’s actually like this in addition to doing witchcraft herself, that she even has affairs with women too.

Though victim blaming is wrong but it’s not particularly coincidental that a number of women who elect to dress this way also tend to be really horny themselves, that makes one wonder why some men want more modestly dressed, submissive women as their wives and girlfriends. Admittedly I struggle with this towards a former classmate before, but I feel this has to also be reframed in light of women’s own struggles with lust, that makes the need to heed to a husband’s advice all the more meaningful. Like if your husband tells you to stop dressing this way, going to certain websites/places, consuming certain media that’s not edifying and so on, or reading smut then you have to heed to him however awkward it may be. At times the Bible does speak highly of being celibate, being away from distractions (including annoying women). It should be noted that in the other Bible verse, God does say that if someone’s unable to control their lust so badly they should be able to channel it through marriage. Than to go on dumping one person after another, consuming porn and masturbating.

(I’ve gotten into trouble for consuming porn before, this is also true for my cousin in a way, it’s often this way like losing pets or in her case, losing a husband in her lifetime.)

I said many times before that America’s a very double-minded country on the verge of civil instability that it’s also due for physiogeographical instability, Celestial’s prophecy about Florida getting destroyed does have some implications for the Backstreet Boys. Seeing how and why they’re largely residing there that should an earthquake ever destroy part of Florida, there’s a possibility that they’ll die for being evil and rebellious, for God won’t let them live for long. Even if they don’t seem to be outright evil at first, well Satan can appear as an angel of light. They might be hiding something evil in them, with a feeling they know they’re doing wrong but do it anyways. I have made idols out of other people, things and bands before, though it’s kind of sad and sadly weird why Brian Littrell even enables this from his fans. Odder still is that he wanted to work in ministry before, which is something his own contemporary Zac Hanson ended up doing in a way (since he’s also much younger than him). Unfortunately he ended up mmmaking God even mmmader than ever before, though it’s also like this with me towards sermons before. One would suspect Zac’s own mistake is what got him closer to God, as God can turn evil into good.

He’s also not above his own faults, which is why he faced a backlash from his fans from getting arrogance into his head multiple times before (I also struggle with this a lot, along with anger and unforgiveness from being traumatised a lot). Or Ace of Base for another matter just the same, that the Berggren siblings had their grandmother killed and one of them got traumatised for life, which is also what brought Jenny closer to God and she admitted it’s own fault why this happened (confessing one’s sins and owning up to it). I have been unrepentant in my own sins before and I’m trying really hard to do right, even if it tends to backfire despite trying hard not to sin. I try really hard not to be bitter, angry, unforgiving, arrogant, rebellious, disobedient, unbelieving, idolatrous and horny, though at times it doesn’t go as expected (and getting affected by those a lot) and I still struggle with those after deliberately giving into them before. It’s probably like this with Zac and Jenny before, or Brian Littrell for another matter.

Though I’m afraid Brian Littrell and friends might get the boot for their own unrepentant evils/sins/vices that ultimately they’ll all die together when Florida gets destroyed, it does make one wonder why would America house such confusing and contradictory materials, in some regards far moreso than others have done due to it being such a superpower that ultimately it is evil incarnate and Hell on Earth. Evil might still persist in the world for as long as the headquarters move somewhere to Europe, either Russia or most likely Italy as the Vatican City is within it and it will house the Antichrist in a way. But it’s still telling that America is Babylon the Great in a way others aren’t and why it will go away for good, along with its influence around the world.

The Mountain Song

There’s a person who prophesised about Mount Everest, a mountain range mostly found in India and Nepal, crumbling due to the sin of idolatry and comes to think of it this way, Mount Everest does seem to loom large in Hinduism, which is an idolatrous and polytheistic religion. It is the abode of the Hindu god Shiva, who is part of the Trimurti alongside Brahma and Vishnu, and is also the god of certain ascetes who dress and live in a certain way. Even if Mount Everest doesn’t completely crumble but it’s going to happen to some extent due to people’s idolatry, as God is jealous and doesn’t tolerate rivals in his place. One might make objections to this as there could be sacred mountains in Christianity in a way, given there’s something like Mount Athos which is somewhere in Greece where it’s an all male monastery. The only difference is that this monastery’s part of a Christian denomination more commonly found there known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and it really does have long masses (by Catholic and most Protestant standards, though there are African Pentecostal church services that rival them in length), even if the Athos monks themselves likely stumble into idolatry every now and then.

Or for another matter St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt but as with Athos people usually worship God on the mountain, not so much the mountain itself nor do they usually worship some other god on the same mountain. That is the difference between mountainous Christian churches and monasteries, and those done by idolaters of any stripe and creed for most of the part for as long as said Christian tries not to lapse into idolatry themselves. One would only wonder if something similar could happen to Mount Olympus in Greece now that you have people recreating the idolatry of their ancestors, that is the Greco-Roman religion. Similar movements have happened elsewhere in Europe, so Greece really isn’t exempt from this unfortunate trend. If this trend continues then Mount Olympus will also crumble due to an earthquake, which is rather telling that Europe is falling away from God and has gone back to its old, sad ways that no sooner or later Russia will invade the rest of it and incorporate it into itself, thus leading to the third incarnation of the Russian Empire (Celestial often said that this is the second incarnation of the Soviet Union, despite her own faults).

So said the Lord.

Whither K-Pop

Nakita has a lot of videos concerning the spiritual state of the K-Pop industry and by extension, its originator South Korea itself, that it seems less appealing from the inside out. Not just that K-Pop trainees have to undergo grueling schedules to get to where they are or could be if they never become K-Pop musicians at all (E-Jay auditioned as one but ended up writing songs for the film ‘Kpop Demon Hunters’ instead), but there’s also the odd possibility of Satanic rituals getting done behind close doors that some K-Pop producers’ and musicians’ ascent to popularity takes on a more dubiously Faustinian quality. No different from their western counterparts to the extent of K-Pop musicians repeatedly alluding to the occult and the Devil himself, for they are rebellious and proud per the Bible’s stance on the same. There are even people who also said that JY Park is a false teacher who leads people astray with his dubious teachings and equally dubious music, which would explain why Stray Kids are called Stray Kids. He might even molest all members behind closed doors, but it’s not hidden to God and it will be found out in public.

I feel the issue of idolatry would be the same if somebody substitutes BTS for INXS, but what will differ is a change in sentiment towards South Korean mass culture/Hallyu. I suppose if more scandals were to be uncovered surrounding the K-Pop industry that it might even become unfashionable to publicly admit to liking K-Pop and Hallyu, that it may become highly stigmatised in the future. The issue of idolatry would remain if something like Hungarian, Romanian, Swedish and Polish music were to get really popularised in Canada, but it would become more socially acceptable to partake in anti-Korean sentiment there that to defend K-Pop is to be an outcast. And even then K-Pop is pretty questionable in and of itself, where you have others admitting they couldn’t get into K-Pop because they found the male musicians to be too effeminate and cartoonish. That’s not to say K-Pop boy bands and male solo musicians are necessarily effeminate, but they do things that are really strange for bands like Backstreet Boys and One Direction to regularly do. It’s not uncommon for K-Pop boy band members to dye their hair in strange colours, wear makeup and act cutesy. It would be really weird if many Backstreet Boys members did the same.

(The Backstreet Boys would also be judged for the same things their K-Pop counterparts do, to the point where they all die ingloriously as well as get found out for adultery, sex trafficking and filming snuff videos featuring women, children and animals.)

The western male musicians who do regularly wear makeup in any way are far likelier to be not at all from prefabricated boy bands, something like those from the Prodigy, Tokio Hotel, Culture Club, Duran Duran, Bauhaus, The Damned and the like, that if Bill Kaulitz had been a boy band member (if both Robbie Williams and Harry Styles are any indication), then he’d have to put on a facade of being somebody contrary to his usual presentation. Then again it’s possible it’s not uncommon for western boy bands to be molested by their producers, that they too get corrupted spiritually over time provided when occult activity’s involved at all (even Boyzone’s Shane Lynch said this). This makes their Korean counterparts even more peculiar given how popular they really are outside of South Korea, the way Japanese boy bands aren’t to the same extent and even those who aren’t from prefab bands aren’t well-known to the general public outside of Japanophiles. K-Pop might be popular among certain sectors of the general public, but it’s something that gets more international airplay than J-Pop does, at least for now if K-Pop were to end for real.

That’s from my experience listening to K-Pop not only on local (Philippine) radio stations but also their Mexican counterparts like Radio Disney (believe it or not, it’s still a thing in Latin America for now as the original one’s gone as it will sold to Brazil’s Globo to become Radio Jovem or something due to Disney’s failings), that K-Pop is really more popular among overseas audiences in a way J-Pop isn’t that you can be into K-Pop without really being into anime productions. It’s possible for one’s interest in J-Pop to grow independent of being into anime, but they’re generally entwined not just due to the nature of anime soundtracks containing those but also an overall Japanophilia. In the Philippines I kind of get the impression that Hallyu/South Korean mass culture’s more popular among non-anime fans, but it could be that Hallyu’s better marketed to those outside of geek circles. And even then it’s strange why would both South Korea and the Philippines, both East Asian countries with substantial Christian populations, would openly partake in idolatry that they will get comeuppances for what they do as to be given over to China forever.

South Korea might end up reuniting with North Korea, that the later version of Hallyu (if it were to persist in some way) would evolve to fit the new Korean reality at best. But even then the K-Pop industry as we know it might not exist anymore and likely the same for offshoots like P-Pop, where if a P-Pop industry were to grow substantially and since these musicians are openly referred to as idols, that such an industry and likely a degree of Korean (and moreso Western/American) influence in the Philippines will be revoked forever. If because the Philippines loves its sins and chooses to do evil, that the things that make it distinctive in East Asia will either be revoked or minimised, that eventually in the near future the Philippines will really be no different from the rest of its neighbours in most regards. South Korea would be no different either as it’s been suspected that K-Pop takes its cues from American music and more specifically African American music, quite unsurprisingly some of the earliest K-Pop musicians like Seo Taji were also into hip hop at some point, that such an industry would collapse and get revoked over time as well. Ultimately the K-Pop industry and its offshoots will be over, same goes for the J-Pop idol industry that it will look very different in the future.

And even if J-Pop were to continue existing in the future, it would be one where there are no openly proclaimed idols at all. It would be a different music industry in the wider East Asian region by then where there were once prefab boy bands and girl groups, now there are going to be more K-Rock, Trot, K-Rap and Ballad musicians as Trot is a genre specific to South Korea. There might still be singers who don’t write their own songs and play instruments, there might still be pop bands in the molds of Aqua and Ace of Base, but the boy band and girl group schools will be over by then. If because with these bands there’s a tendency to deliberate cultish interest in them, where members have to adopt personae to appeal to these people regardless of who they really are in person. And even their social media presence is more likely to be highly curated, considering that it might not fully reflect on what else interests them offline. It would be frightening if somebody like AJ McLean doesn’t have affairs with his fans (same with Nick Carter), but also films himself abusing women and animals (which Nick also does) that goes to show you their own public online presences don’t fully represent their actual personalities, given the nature of dark web.

And it would be pretty frightening if Nick Carter also films himself abusing women and animals mixed with Satanic rituals, that there will even come a time when all the Backstreet Boys will show up onstage dressed as demons and flashing the Satanic pentagram onscreen that makes you wonder who they actually serve, and it’s much likelier they don’t really serve God at all, despite Brian Littrell proclaiming himself to be a Christian. This is also true for their K-Pop counterparts and why such curated personae exist, even when the musicians themselves don’t consistently live up to it even in private and online. It’s not necessarily wrong to be in a vocal group and boy bands really do have their roots in doo-wop, but the way boy bands and girl groups are made deliberate idolatry in their fans that it’s likely why such affections exist in the first place. To the extent it’s wiser to do a Zac Hanson than to do a Brian Littrell, losing fans by mistake only to come closer to God and do the Great Commission (that Littrell himself wanted to do at some point). A would-be member named Burk Parsons went on to become a pastor instead, dodging a bullet that would’ve had fans writing pornographic stories about him by then. (This would’ve been called visuals at the height of BSB’s popularity.)

The way such obsession’s engineered and deliberated to even induce sexual obsessions with them at various points, even if it’s not unique to boy bands as others undergo this in a way as well, that even if not all boy band fans (much less K-Pop and BSB fans) remain like this, but it’s terribly not uncommon to find pornographic fanfictions with K-Pop and BSB really. And why it speaks volumes to this sort of engineered rebellion and idolatry that those who could’ve formed families (sometimes it doesn’t go as expected due to their own shortcomings affecting things) end up getting really devoted to those bands instead. The problem’s the same if you substitute Stray Kids with Stray Cats, but what’s different with K-Pop is how upfront it is about these things as to warrant getting removed for good. To close things though I didn’t get into any K-Pop band for real, I do have my moments of idolatry towards musicians and bands as to get disappointed at times, and I listened to K-Pop before until God told me to stop listening to this and eventually I did. Angelamarie Ucci said that idols can disappoint people (as it did to me before), that there’s a current backlash to Taylor Swift (her former favourite musician) for having a man she truly loves in her life.

It’s like this with one musician, though I’ve prayed for it, it does prove Ucci’s point right. She’s likely praying for Taylor Swift too and will be saved in due time, though it remains to be seen if it gets fulfilled at all, but ultimately there’s something about the showbiz industry that deliberates obsessive behaviours towards otherwise unlikable people that it feels like a cosmic prank played by Satan to go after people the public doesn’t genuinely trust and like all the time and why idolatry’s bad, which is something I still struggle with at times, to the point where things happen if I can’t worship God and Mammon. I do pray for them, though some will be answered in due time, as for others it might not be answered at all if they continue to do evil, so said the Lord.

The dirt of Hollywood

When it comes to America, there are people who think it’s morally rotten to the core. Somebody like AA Allen said that American culture has a habit of both producing and popularising filth, that if America is Mystery Babylon then it makes sense it would house these abominations to begin with. Celestial even said that people get molested in Hollywood as part of these occult rituals to get rich and famous, though she pretty much mentioned one Disney alumna of the 1990s, that is Britney Spears though similar things can be said of others like her costar Christina Aguilera and then Sabrina Carpenter. All three women started out as wholesome and twee, especially with the former two very early on in their careers. If all three of them got sodomised and sodomy is one abhorrent sex act, then this might partly explain why they turned out this way.

Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising why #MeToo happened in Hollywood, I remember reading somewhere that actresses are even made to sleep with directors to get to where they want to be. This should hint at something spiritually odious in Hollywood that not many realise, that these people get raped in sex acts as part of evil rituals designed to degrade them from the inside out. Even Beyonce herself isn’t spared from these sex acts, and quite horribly her own husband Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) even makes other people sleep with her. Like he even encourages this sort of cuckoldry onto himself, but he’s also a Satanist and and so is she in kind. A match made in Hell if there ever was one at all, if water attracts its own level then that’s why they’re like this.

The idea that Lady Gaga is in league with the Devil is not lost on other people, there are some people who say that the woman who’s getting ripped apart in Lady Gaga’s nightmare is Lady Gaga herself, portending what will happen to her in the afterlife. At any point where she could’ve turned to God, she ended up turning to false teachers more. It’s true that any celebrity can get saved, I’ve done this before to others in the past. But on the other hand, it does explain why Lady Gaga has a rather preternatural appeal that makes people think she’s much better than she really is. Like you have people saying that she’s a genius, but there are others who have her calibre yet don’t possess the fame she has. One thing that’s more plausible to secular people is that she had good connections before, she even wrote some songs for the band Pussycat Dolls.

My father said that there are filmmakers who might be more talented than their better known counterparts are, but barely gain traction in the film industry as they don’t have the connections needed to get by. It would be no different with Lady Gaga in a way as she’s connected to other people who made their mark in the music industry before, thus she’s able to have the popularity that truly struggling musicians wish to have. There could be Soundcloud musicians who’re far more talented than she is in the same things she’s famous for, but don’t gain the same traction as they never worked with another celebrity before, much less a better known one at that. A rather Kafkasque example (and one who’s most similar to Chappell Roan) is Katy Perry.

She came from a Christian family and started out as a Christian singer, but I remember her saying that her upbringing was too strict. Somebody else said that it’s likely something went wrong in the Perry household, given she is the daughter of a pastor herself. All these unrealistic expectations placed upon her had her questioning her faith eventually and going over to the dark side, I said that Chappell Roan’s like the 2020s version of Katy Perry in terms of upbringing and trajectory. If Katy Perry were to be starting out in the late 2010s, she would’ve been a lot more like Chappell Roan by then. My sister said that her parents do pray for it, as confirmed in this article. Both women’s cases are more sobering than infurirating, given they started out as Christians.

Backstreet Boys might be equal parts sobering and infurirating, in fact both at the same time, because of the way Brian Littrell chooses to lead his band and his own life. If actions and choices have consequences, then it shouldn’t come as a surprise that for a man who professes to be a Christian and yet makes his fans attend his band’s sponsored cruises, one of his bandmates is really a serial rapist and another is known to cheat on his ex-wife by dating his fans, that makes one wonder if Littrell made himself a stumbling block for not only his fans but also his bandmembers. The ones who personally know him better than fans do, that it would be horrifying if they have the audacity to show up as demons one day, then getting killed by a flood or something. If BSB members got sodomised, then Nick’s own mum Jane was onto something.

Lou Pearlman was noted to molest his trainees or employees (to borrow something from K-Pop because it’s practically no different), he even formed the Backstreet Boys as a synthesis of both New Kids On The Block (also derivative of an earlier black vocal group called New Edition) and the less wholesome Chippendale dancers. This might explain things like ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’, which is really alarming because this video was made when Nick Carter was legally a minor in other places. Even when Lou Pearlman didn’t molest Nick Carter, he still would’ve been inappropriate to him in another way. Backstreet Boys first got popular in Europe, where some countries like Britain, Ireland and Germany have a lower age of consent enough for Pearlman to get away with this, so Jane was really onto something.

Burk Parsons was set to join the Backstreet Boys and despite briefly entertaining thoughts of joining them, he decided against it to both honour God and his father’s wishes. Otherwise we could’ve gotten pornographic fanfiction featuring him and his would-be bandmembers, so he really did dodge a bullet by refusing to join them. Given writing pornographic stories about a celebrity amounts to writing pornographic stories about a stranger, it’s actually kind of creepy that somebody has sexual fantasies of a person they personally don’t know much. Projecting their sexual fantasies onto them, that should give you an idea of how unsettling this would’ve been to Burk if somebody wrote porn about him and his would-be bandmembers. It’s shocking why Brian Littrell never seemed to mind it much, since he’s a Christian himself.

But as what other people said, guys like him aren’t just arrogant but evil to the core. Or at least somebody who got worse over time because Littrell also wanted to join ministry himself, though unfortunately it seems his own contemporary Zac Hanson is living out what he wanted to do at some point. It’s wiser to do a Zac Hanson than a Brian Littrell in the sense of committing social suicide by accident to draw closer to God, as he turns mishaps into blessings, than to deliberately commit spiritual suicide by wallowing a lot in the attention fans give to him and his band. It’s perhaps befitting why Brian Littrell seems to condone the song ‘Everybody’ despite knowing it blasphemes God, that no sooner or later his band will face many more scandals but ones that reveal that all members have affairs with their fans.

This will be big news in the future when this gets revealed, perhaps it’s rather disturbing why Brian Littrell chooses to stay with them and never rebuking them if they sin. And if all of them have affairs with fans that will be publicised in the future, it’s as if they exploit their fans for sexual gratification. It’s actually kind of abusive of them to do this to their fans, but if sodomy’s shown to corrupt people, then it shouldn’t be surprising why they turned out to be this way. Burk Parsons’s father knew how corrupting American showbiz is to people and Celestial’s words confirm it in a way, but one particularly tragic instance from the late 2000s would be the Jonas Brothers. They also come from a Christian family and likely were sodomised, to the point of drifting away from the faith.

At any point where Nick Jonas could’ve married a nice Christian woman, he married a practising Hindu instead. Unequally yoked, he could practise Hinduism for real. He is in the early stages of doing it, it would be grim he might convert to Hinduism for real. Sabrina Carpenter is one recent example of a Disney star who became less wholesome over time, her early 2000s counterpart would be Christina Aguilera. If there’s nothing new under the sun, both women do have a habit of blaspheming God a lot. That’s in addition to having a very sexualised public image, if I’m not mistaken Christina Aguilera’s fine with dating women. Sabrina Carpenter does no differently in some regards, save for a lack of interest in women. But there’s something kind of wicked about these women.

Or at least the way they carry themselves actually makes them repulsive to men seeking long-term marital partners, women they’d bring home to their mothers and fathers (parents in other words). These two are also the sort of women certain men would happily bash for being promiscuous and oversexualised, but it still points to a possibility that some men really do want good, decent women around in their lives. Kind of makes you wonder why the tradwife phenomenon took root, though precedents to it have been formenting before. Admittedly not all tradwives truly live up to what they want to be, let alone all the time, but the other extreme’s not any better either. Taylor Swift has actually been suspected of doing witchcraft before, as well as doing things to the contrary.

Even then there was something fishy about her girl next door reputation, regarding her dating history until now, that it seems she wasn’t that wholesome to those who have the misfortune of being around her on a bad day. An even more shocking revelation with celebrity fandoms and the like is that it feels like a cosmic prank pulled by the Devil where people make idols out of the most unlikable and insufferable people one would meet on a bad day in person, particularly some celebrities with really obnoxious fans. Similar things could be said of Nick Carter, given how ridiculously defensive a number of his fans are of him. Even without the spiritual angle being involved, Mr Carter would still be kind of repulsive to some people. Especially some women who can’t stand that such men pay more mind to video games than to relationships.

This is particularly true that if it weren’t for him being a celebrity and all that nostalgia involved, many women wouldn’t find him that attractive when it comes to his hobbies. (This brings new meaning to the song ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’, especially for women who can’t stand their men playing video games.) Celebrity culture still feels like a cosmic prank by Satan where people fall for the most unlikable and insufferable folks in town, whilst gossip is technically a sin it doesn’t help when you have people already distrusting the nature of American showbiz that ultimately there’s no point in liking such people to begin with. Whilst it’s true that Jesus and his cohorts weren’t always liked by others either, for his disciples this is sometimes due to their own sins that got them there, but celebrity culture is another matter.

It’s basically glamourising the lives of the rich and suspicious, in the sense that people will always suspect them of being annoying, abusive, mentally ill, promiscuous or gay, it’s going after really unlikable people. Angelamarie Ucci said that idols do have the ability to disappoint people and it has happened to me before multiple times, particularly disliking what I like, and although I do pray for these people, it does make you wonder if there are others who might fulfill this ideals better. If Gerard Way is everything fans make Nick Carter out to to be, since the latter could’ve easily joined Gamergate if he never joined a boy band and was a young man in the 2010s due to him being exposed to sexist media in his youth and him being a massive rapist to boot, similar things can be said of other people in a way just the same.

Or better still God in the sense of somebody who’s actually good, given it seems a number of these celebrities seem to be unrepentant criminals. Be it Michael Jackson, Nick Carter, Simon Le Bon, David Bowie and who else, Celestial said that Michael Jackson sacrifices people to the Devil and such people shouldn’t even bother listening to his music to begin with. Angelica Zambrano said that Michael Jackson made a deal with the Devil, alarming he’s in hell so his afterlife is far from satisfying. There are also other people who have visions of seeing celebrities in hell, including somebody like Joey Ramone for instance. He’s from the band The Ramones, they were historically more popular in Britain and Latin America than they were in America, they also highly rejected God when somebody wanted them saved. So that’s why all the original members died.

The only surviving members at this point are the substitutes like Marky Ramone, Clem Burke and Ritchie Ramone, those who could be saved and repent at this point whilst they still have a chance to live to meet him through somebody. I guess the real reason why people fear death, including myself, especially the fear of themselves dying is really wanting to live in an endles present without much regard for their future. Much less an afterlife in mind, where the Bible talks about the narrow road to Heaven and the wide road to Hell. There’s something oddly and interestingly harrowing about the actual afterlives of celebrities like Joey Ramone and Marilyn Monroe, where it’s one thing to be immortalised in secular media, it’s another to discover where they actually went to once they died.

Marilyn Monroe also rejected God and then she died young, she also led a very ungodly lifestyle beforehand. I’ve rejected God before and faced the music a lot, but that’s sometimes due to my desire to keep a cool head. It’s kind of hard trying not to commit a sin and then do another, like either I’m in bondage to my sins or that I rely on my own efforts to get it right. Even then it seems wise to think of celebrity culture as a prank pulled by Satan, where it seems the biggest role models in pop culture/mass culture are also the most spiritually and morally suspicious. I remember a radio preacher saying that people like Brian Littrell are wicked, it would be even more alarming to think that Brian and the rest of the Backstreet Boys are all destined to go to Hell for whatever they’re doing at present.

This revelation or epiphany goes hand in hand with all of them turning out to have had affairs with their fans, that it does make one wonder if they actually sexually exploit them for their own gratification. It makes more sense to think of groupies as victims who find themselves exploited by their favourite musicians for certain favours, but this means these musicians are practically grooming them to be their playthings. It’s like if Nick Carter has a secret account somewhere online to groom one fan to be his mistress, despite being a married man with children, coupled with him being absent from his house for days that he manages to lead a double life that’ll be found out in due time. The one thing more horrifying than both Nick and AJ having affairs with their fans is learning that Kevin, Howie and Brian also do the same thing too.

The way the Backstreet Boys treat women could be misogynistic in its own right, in the sense that you have people saying that the Backstreet Boys would always look for women to date in their prime, Brian Littrell having the audacity to photograph his wife’s buttocks, Nick Carter raping women and AJ McLean having affairs with his own fans prior to his divorce, that in reality they’re just as bad as the Beatles were. Somebody like Gerard Way has the audacity to refuse making women undress for him, even if he does slip up he seems like the sort of guy who drinks his respect women beverages a lot more often than Nick Carter does, essentially the person the latter gets made out to be. Something tells you what the Backstreet Boys actually think of women when their members have watched porn, abuse women, cheat on their wives with their fans and objectify their wives, that it’s far from feminist.

They most likely think of women as playthings who exist to gratify them, not when they start rebuking them of being cruel that’s when their actual attitudes to women come into play. Gerard Way doesn’t do this often but it seems BSB fans are some of the most defensive people I’ve ever encountered, like some of them are in denial that their favourites do abuse people. And others are in denial that fellow fans do make porn based on the BSB themselves, it’s even noted somewhere online that such stories were called visuals before. Given Brian Littrell made the conscious decision to join a boy band instead of ministry that this is what he sowed: popularity with fans, then comes drug addictions and porn addictions, then comes rape allegations. It seems Brian Littrell actually prefers the world over the word of God, that this explains why he never brings his fans to church.

Though similar things could be said of Ace of Base in a way, but the difference is that this band’s been defunct for a long time. Additionally Jenny Berggren sings in church these days, whereas Brian Littrell continues to be in the secular music industry. Zac Hanson, who’s much younger than him, serves in church as a deacon after being rejected by his own fans. They’re not without their own faults and I do pray for them to stop doing bad things themselves, keep them from doing worse and so on, but the Backstreet Boys is really a tragic example of what happens when a Christian elects to do wrong and be of the world. Or the Jonas Brothers for another matter as they have pastors for parents, that it’s going to be alarming if Nick Jonas ever converts to Hinduism in earnest. It might be possible to prevent them from doing worse through intercessions, but it’s disturbingly plausible for him to become a Hindu for real.

It would be alarming if there’s a place in Hell for both bands to reside in, it would be just as horrifying to think that somebody like Michael Hutchence is also in Hell. He was the singer of this band called INXS and this is one of the bands I’ve encountered whilst watching Channel V (a music channel not unlike MTV) when I was younger, from the outset he seemed to have it all. Wealth, lots of adoring fans, chart-topping hits, touring nearly all over the world, yet he struggled with demons. Not just the colloquial meaning of having problems, but also that he alluded to the King of Demons in some songs like ‘Devil Inside’ and ‘Original Sin’, that makes you wonder if he himself is of the world. I remember a pastor discussing about the same things about Chester Bennington (and implicitly about my cousin), that it seems the worldly life isn’t holy and isn’t worth admiring either.

No surprise why these celebrities openly struggle with drug addiction, sex addiction, porn addiction, alcoholism and the like, that it’s one thing to know that they’re human. It’s another to make paragons out of people who really aren’t in person, most especially people like Nick Carter, Michael Jackson and David Bowie regarding the subject of rape, that it’s not surprising why a good number of people don’t trust or like showbiz. It’s not always that it’s unintelligent or whatever but there’s really no point in going after public figures that other people don’t really fully trust, if such magazines are to be believed in a way, that it seems somebody like Nick Carter and Taylor Swift were kind of moral failures themselves in their own right. Others like Nick Jonas, Chappell Roan and Katy Perry are kind of depressing in a way, regarding that they all come from Christian families and become anti-Christian themselves eventually.

If Satan was the angel of music and got kicked out for his arrogance, maybe it’s not surprising why showbiz is highly susceptible to his influence. So susceptible that it’s actually common for aspiring musicians to turn to the occult and/or become arrogant in a way, it’s not just rockers that turn to the occult to get their 15 minutes of fame. So do pop musicians, electronic musicians (I remember this book called Electronic Punks where somebody like Maxim turned to a palmist to know what his future could be when he wasn’t a well-established musician), rappers and even classical musicians like Niccolo Paganini (pagan), that secular musicians making nice with the Devil is the norm. It’s possible to pray for your favourite musicians to stop doing these things, making them read the Bible and so on. I actually prayed for this band called The Prodigy, where Maxim’s from, and there were signs of it getting answered.

First, I had a dream of them in church. Then comes encountering somebody on 444ProphecyNews with the same surname as Maxim’s own bandmate, Liam Howlett (it’s surreal), and then there’s a dream of them swimming around in a building, hinting at their baptism. Since I also prayed for everybody in Ace of Base to get saved, first was that one of them is a Christian, then comes prophecies with keywords also found in their songs and then a devotional called Prisoners of Hope, which is also both a Bible verse and another keyword in one of their own songs. So these prayers got answered in very surreal ways, I even have a document called Of God and Maxim Guns: Presbyterianism in Nigeria, another unexpected answer. The one thing even more surreal than these things is seeing members of these bands together in church, like I said I had a dream of the Prodigy members in church.

I guess if this is true, it’s better to stay away from the world. Not necessarily in near total seclusion, but being more judicious and selective with what you read (this is what I strive to do), listen, associate with and so on as to avoid being badly influenced for long. I’ve been exposed to an anti-Christian environment for so long that it’s going to take time to overcome them, I even think some of the Newsboys’ problems stem from being too friendly with the secular world that makes it harder for one member to overcome his own sins, having a road pastor helps to keep him in check. But it’s still better to actively avoid secular venues, if it makes it harder to overcome certain sins. It’s been like this with me before and I do my hardest to try to avoid these things, but this means being this selective with what I consume. If it means letting go of certain things, then it’s going to help me more in the long run.

And perhaps if the showbiz world is truly wedded to the Devil, it’s not a surprise why it aims to be as filthy as possible in many senses of the word. Christina Aguilera didn’t just blaspheme God when she was younger, she’s also terribly promiscuous and sex-obsessed that it does make one wonder why some men prefer to have more wholesome women in their lives instead. It’s common to have women complain about their menfolk having affairs and watching porn, though the reverse has to be considered in light of things like wives having to submit to their husbands, that one can make an argument of men being similarly grieved whenever their wives have affairs of sorts. It does make one wonder why the tradwife thing happened, deep down inside it seems some people yearn for a world where women do willingly follow their husbands’ and boyfriends’ better judgements.

But I feel this is lost on some women that it amounts to being boybossed around a lot, why there’s a Bible verse stating that it’s better to be single than to live with an annoying broad, that makes one wonder why some men wouldn’t want to marry Christina Aguilera. Or why her own marriage to one man’s short lived, with her being more sexually attracted to women than men, it seems her marriage seemed performative and perhaps no sooner or later, she might come out as a lesbian. Then she’ll epitomise two misogynistic stereotypes at once: the sex-obsessed attention grabbing woman and the man-hating lesbian, where it seems some people’s suspicions of feminism being full of man-hating lesbians were not entirely off. With some reports of Aguilera herself being open to relationships with women, it seemed she never really could handle becoming a submissive housewife type.

Again another example of the showbiz industry promoting worldliness and lies where it seems okay to write songs about being single despite being married in reality (see also Beyonce Knowles and now Taylor Swift), it seems okay to be in an unhappy marriage with a man whilst pursuing adulterous relationships with women, it seems okay to have affairs with your fans and so on. It seems people like Christina Aguilera were never really good role models for women, much less women seeking lifelong relationships with men so I don’t think Taylor Swift’s entirely to blame for this, even though she’s a more relevant example at present. It’s one thing to criticse Tay for dumping one guy after another until she met somebody she actually likes, it’s another to deal with that Christina was never really that into guys and being more sexually attracted to women might explain why her relationships with men don’t go well.

Celestial even said that Beyonce’s actually bisexual because she had affairs with both men and women alike, that it wouldn’t be a stretch to assume that Christina Aguilera herself could be in the lines of this as well. She’s even done the same things as Taylor Swift did, that it seems Aguilera wouldn’t be the best role model to look up to when seeking lifelong monogamous relationships with men either. Actually the argument would be stronger in her case, because she admits to being sexually attracted to women and she even has a picture by Bansky of the late Queen Elizabeth as a lesbian. So she’s not going to be a good role model for women seeking lifelong relationships with men, especially if her own relationships with men tend to be short-lived and a possibly stronger attraction to women to boot.

Although idolising the likes of say Jenny Berggren, Tracey Thorn and the like wouldn’t be any better either, or Taylor Swift for this matter but the main difference is that Taylor Swift never seemed to struggle with same-sex attraction (I kind of do from time to time). Like if you want to be in a lifelong relationship with one man, if Taylor Swift isn’t the right one but so is Christina Aguilera (well, it’s worse in her case really), that you’re better off not idolising her whilst being on the quest to be with a loving husband for long. Even then it seems those in showbiz really do kind of glamourise and even popularise such bad habits, that people are far better off not idolising them for long. Even if not all celebrities do this for long, they’re needles in a haystack. And the showbiz industry really is a cosmic prank by Satan to beguile people with.

About the Stray Kids situation

Somebody going by the name of Nakita Wambui said that JY Park made Stray Kids with the intent of leading people astray, that he’s also a false teacher makes you wonder why he’d do these things. In the sense of moonlighting as a pastor to further deceive people with, especially given the stuff he condones and does is the opposite of it. It’s one thing to struggle with sin, since this is frequently my case. But it’s another to be rather unapologetic in being evil, as it is with JY Park that no sooner or later his company will close abruptly. If he tries to rebuild it in any way he feels like doing it at all, he’ll lose his daughters in a row (I’ve rebelled against God and lost so many dogs as a result). His company might experience financial problems soon this year, starting this month at any point this week.

Stray Kids might become less popular with the public due to scandals regarding the band members’ behaviour and the possible abuse of them at the hands of their manager, that makes the sexualisation of them seem much more obvious. Actually that’s not even unique to the Stray Kids themselves as it’s also the case with other bands like Mirotic and the like, there’s a video by Mirotic that garnered controversy over something that seemed sexual. But it’s surprising why the Backstreet Boys didn’t catch flack for something like ‘Quit Playing Games With My Heart’ despite the fact that Nick Carter was legally a child at the time (at least in some places) when this got released, add to that his own mum alleges that Lou Pearlman did something inappropriate to him.

Add to that there might be sex tapes involving the Backstreet Boys themselves done to humiliate them and even if Lou Pearlman didn’t outright molest Nick Carter at the time, he still would’ve been inappropriate to him in another way like showing him porn to keep him entertained. Singer Kaya said that Nick watched porn when she was with him, so there’s a chance that he got that habit of watching porn from merely being around Lou Pearlman. Lou Pearlman might not have molested Nick himself, but he was still inappropriate to him by exposing him to sexualised media, at to negatively influence him later on in life. No wonder why Nick Carter ended up the way he is towards certain women, Lou Pearlman was definitely a bad influence to him and resident Christian Brian Littrell never bothered rebuking him at any point he did that.

Bad company corrupts good heart, Littrell wanted to serve in ministry but unfortunately became so worldly that it’s depressing why he never makes his fans worship God, instead of having them worship him and his band at the cruises they offer. Zac Hanson got off better because God rebuked him to stop being proud or something, so he let a mishap happen to him so that he can go back to him. He’s currently a church deacon, doing the thing Littrell wanted to do in a way. Nakita said many times that K-Pop is very worldly, far worldlier than one would realise. It’s not that you have K-Pop members alluding to the Devil and hell from time to time, it’s not just that they’re very sexualised and also want to be worshipped as idols, but that the K-Pop industry’s also built on perishable goods instead of permanent spiritual treasures.

Although not all K-Pop fans are this materialistic, especially if they’re cash-strapped, but it seems K-Pop agencies often pressure them into buying things they can’t always afford, let alone have the time to buy those when they have other things to do (the whole God and mammon thing, I learnt this the hard way before). It’s not enough to merely have books about K-Pop singers, it’s not enough to merely stream K-Pop songs and live broadcasts of K-Pop musicians and brands, though this isn’t unique to them as western musicians and bands like the Spice Girls and Kiss also do similar things. It’s kind of telling that one of the Kiss members calls himself ‘The Demon’, guess which god does he serve? It’s not our Father in Heaven, hallowed be his name. Admittedly I prayed to the Devil before and lost two dogs along the way.

Or did the same again but got a cat sick and so on. I said before that it’s better to do a Zac Hanson by committing social suicide by mistake (or happenstance, since God knew he was drifting away from him at the time Hansongate happened) to return to his first love, the Lord, by serving in church these days than to do a Brian Littrell and get so lost in the world that he’s effectively of it at this point. There are K-Pop idols who do want to serve God themselves that once their agencies go bankrupt, they’ll truly be free from this bondage. I admit to being in bondage to sin, likely because I tend to rely on my strength a lot, in things like holding grudges and being resentful, despite not wanting to give into them these days. I still wish I could master them, even when I don’t make bitter posts these days.

At this point, I’ve cut off some people who are negative influences to me, but there’s still a lot of work to do as their influence has been years deep in me. Letting go of them is the only way to go free, even when the journey isn’t over yet. Maybe this is true for these K-Pop idols and even their own fans, once these agencies go into administration they’ll be free even if the journey isn’t over yet.

Locking out others

When it comes to K-Pop and consumerism, I feel the way K-Pop agencies target fans is really predatory. In the sense of offering really redundant collectibles like one photocard per copy of a certain album that offering photobooks would be a more cost-effective alternative instead, maybe these already do exist and some K-Pop companies aren’t in the habit of offering one photocard per album copy. But I feel this kind of consumerism would have the effect of locking out other K-Pop fans from actually enjoying their favourite bands and musicians in any way they wish to (support), where giving up on K-Pop altogether would be far less draining on their wallets and perhaps time, if they have to worship God, do homework or help out others they actually know themselves.

There is a way to show one’s love for musicians without breaking the bank real badly, even if this means resorting to pirated copies when official copies aren’t readily available elsewhere. Even if this means being content with finding transcribed and scanned articles pertaining to them, merely streaming concert broadcasts and songs, being in online social groups about them, and watching archived performances on social media. I’ve done this before to bands like The Prodigy, Ace of Base and Massive Attack, I’ve been unemployed and now underemployed, so I feel the ways K-Pop agencies make their fans get more of something makes it harder for other K-Pop fans to truly dedicate themselves to such a lifestyle that perhaps certain alternatives would have to take their place instead, especially if their budget’s at the mercy of somebody else’s as it is with me.

No doubt idolatry is bad and it’s kind of telling with K-Pop, but the problem will be the same if somebody replaced both BTS and Stray Kids with INXS and Stray Cats, which is already the case with other people before. I’ve fallen into this trap before, sometimes even if my intentions were well-meaning at the time, so it kind of hurts falling into this a couple of times before myself. But I feel the way K-Pop agencies force their fans to find financially insensible ways of supporting their favourite musicians isn’t good, not just because it would eat up the time needed to worship God and spend more time in the real world, but also because it’s not good if it starts eating up the budget needed for necessitites like food that sometimes K-Pop fans would have to chose one or the other as it is with me before but with other things as I found out later on (to the point of missing something I truly want, it hurts).

One could love a K-Pop musician and not be too materialistic, but K-Pop agencies’ habit of having to plaster their employees’ likenesses onto merchandise, even those other K-Pop fans can’t easily afford is too much. To be fair if witnessing the likenesses of the Stray Kids on foodstuffs like Pepero is weird, I had a schoolmate who collected lollipops featuring Spice Girls (her other favourite is Nickelback), so similar merchandising existed before for western pop bands and musicians. There were books about these groups before, especially for fans who want to learn more about them. And it’s still a thing to this day, so in a sense it’s not unique to K-Pop. But even then predatory music labels, musicians, bands and agencies will always be a thing, especially when it comes to exploiting fan admiration in really unethical and questionable ways. Mind you, the Backstreet Boys were part of a Ponzi scheme before.

And then they’d offer cruises for fans to join them, with somebody alleging that one Backstreet Boy would have affairs with his fans, so it’s really exploitative made worse by that another one’s a Christian. It’s weird why he never held him accountable for this, since the Bible also instructs people to kindly rebuke others of their wrongdoing. Or Nick Carter’s for another matter, since he also flirts with fans and has been the target of rape allegations. Even then there’s something wrong about people in the music industry doing a lot to exploit fannish affections for them to the point of taking advantage of them sexually, which is the real reason why we have groupies to begin with. Musicians will do anything to exploit fangirl affection for them, going so far to turn them into their playthings and worse if they have wives themselves (David Bowie, AJ McLean, possibly all the other four if they too turn out have made mistresses out of their fans), that a power imbalance is going to be painfully inevitable.

So this is likely why K-Pop agencies are so predatory towards financially strapped K-Pop fans, it’s a power imbalance that they enjoy where they get a lot of money, but the fans are left with little else to spend on what’s truly necessary for themselves and their families and friends. They are greedy and love money to the point of being evil, though this isn’t unique to K-Pop itself as those in the western music industry do similar things themselves. It would be wiser to pull a Zac Hanson this time around, in the sense of committing social suicide by accidentally to be closer to God, than to pull a Brian Littrell and commit spiritual suicide by deliberately exploiting fans a lot. If sin keeps people away from God, then the way these musicians enable idolatry make it harder to overcome for long and often as it is with me before.

Even if it were possible to pray for musicians as I’ve done before, there are those who cynically exploit fans to satisfy their egos and greed with, to the point where they never truly loved their fans enough to be concerned for their budgets upon knowing others can’t afford to visit them in concerts and cruises and so on. Other cynically exploit fans for sexual gratification, if some members of the Backstreet Boys are any indication, though it would be horrifying if all members did this. But it still proves the point how some people in the music industry are so predatory to fans, whether if they’re into K-Pop or another, as to cynically exploit them left or right, just ask how this Kiss fan feels about Kiss. Even then it still goes to show you that this isn’t unique to K-Pop bands themselves, since their western counterparts are similarly guilty of this.

Fandom and Consumerism

It’s not wrong to support bands and musicians financially and economically, but I feel it’s not always feasible for those who literally can’t afford to do other things to show their fandom for someone or something. Maybe that’s me speaking from my experience being unemployed and then underemployed, given I have something of a job from selling clothes but I’m also at the mercy of somebody else’s budget and time when it comes to buying materials needed to making something or anything to sell to somebody or anybody. There are likely some Taylor Swift and K-Pop fans who feel the same way too, wanting to support their favourite musicians but are unable to afford other things and/or spend their fannish budget on more important things like supporting family members and close friends, anybody they personally know.

There is a way to show one’s fandom for any musician or band without breaking the bank much, one can stream their favourite songs and albums for free on platforms like Spotify. One can livestream concerts on social media websites like Tiktok and Youtube, one can read free articles on available fansites and fan communities, and even mirror entire archived fansites. I’ve done this one many times over when it comes to my other favourite bands like Ace of Base and Massive Attack, one can even find pirated materials online if they’re willing to go the extra mile (I’ve done this many times too and likely some K-Pop and Taylor Swift fans too). Surely it does pose problems just the same like idolatry* and stuff, but I feel the way K-Pop agencies treat fannish love is painfully predatory.

It’s as if it’s not enough for K-Pop musicians to interact with their fans online, it’s not enough for K-Pop fans to merely stream music and read available materials about their favourite musicians and bands, it’s not even enough for K-Pop fans to just buy albums even when others can’t afford to get limited edition materials about their favourite celebrities that it’s actually rather cruel. I even think it’s cruel of K-Pop agencies to constantly exploit fans’ devotion to celebrities to such a disgusting extent that we have saesang stalkers to begin with, it’s cruel of K-Pop agencies to make fans buy things related to their favourite bands and musicians even when they literally can’t afford these materials themselves. No doubt it plays into the graven images made out of stone and wood thing.

But it’s also bad for their budget, especially if K-Pop fans might find themselves in a situation where supporting such musicians is financially insensible, to the point where not supporting them is the only way they can manage their budgets better the next time around. If some K-Pop fans can’t afford to attend concerts, yet there’s the risk it would interfere with other things like attending church and helping around family members and close friends alike, then quitting K-Pop fandom’s the only way they can do this to be not only closer to God, but also truly available for those who actually know them best. Nakita even said that K-Pop is ungodly and very worldly, that no sooner or later some K-Pop agencies will go into administration. Especially JYP Entertainment this year.

Made worse by that its founder moonlights as a pastor, yet enables idolatry of his bands that he deliberately makes others stumble, as to warrant getting judged by God (I did this before and got into trouble just the same). Actually this isn’t even unique to him, even if other founders of K-Pop agencies are secular from the get-go, made worse by that South Korea has one of the largest Christian populations in East Asia, next to the Philippines, Indonesia, China and Vietnam (yes, Christians exist in the latter three enough to justify the existence of such websites like these). What does this tell you about the state of South Korea where it’s both a Christian nation and also prone to idolatry? It’s kind of double-minded as to be uncertain whether to actually go back to God, or get worse over time that it’s kind of depressing.

It’s even more depressing by that at any point where the South Korean government would’ve helped local ministries translate lectionaries and devotionals into languages other people may want to understand, or even get Korean publishers to have their Christian books licenced overseas and then translated into other languages, this never came to pass. Maybe not yet but if delayed obedience is still disobedience, then it’s on South Korea why it never took advantage of these to reach out to unsaved people in other places and even somewhere in China, as China’s got a growing Christian population at this point. Let alone Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Brunei, Timor Leste, Bangladesh, wherever there are both rising Christian populations and a need to evangelise the locals there.

It’s kind of painful seeing fans being made to buy things they can’t always afford to, as if K-Pop agencies are really merciless in their quest for more money, regardless if fans themselves can’t afford to buy all those other merchandise and may even spend it on something else altogether.

*I struggle with idolatry from time to time.

Living for the world

I even said before that for a band that continues to be in the music industry themselves as they are for years, it’s shocking why despite having a resident Christian around Brian Littrell never makes his own fans attend church and worship God. Hanson has been guilty of this before to the point of God allowing a scandal to happen to get them back to him, since fame has really gotten into their heads that drastic measures have to be taken to get them to repent. Or for another matter Ace of Base when a stalker killed two members’ grandmother and got one member traumatised for the rest of her life, that living for the world turns out to be far worse than expected or rather assumed to be. No wonder why Jenny Berggren sings in church these days, with her older sister Malin now far away from the spotlight.

Brian Littrell never seemed to learn his lesson, never bothered trying hard not to repeat it again. It’s likely these former two do pray for their fans to come to God, given Jenny sings in church and Zac Hanson’s now a deacon or something. Brian Littrell admitted he wanted to serve in church before, but it’s shocking why to this day he never makes his fans attend church, preferring that they come to his cruises instead. Somebody online insinuated that people like him are proud (I struggle with this a lot, not wanting to be proud but these efforts backfire instead), another a radio preacher said that people like him are wicked. Even when he’s not outright wicked, he seems to be on the wrong path. Preferring fame and fortune above God, preferring the world above God.

That it’s likely both he and his band will be judged for turning themselves into stumbling blocks for their fans, with rape scandals surrounding Nick Carter that it’s even more shocking why he never made him accountable for what he did or does. Unfortunately this also means that Brian Littrell also made himself into a stumbling block for Nick, excusing him of whatever wrongdoing he does instead of praying for him to actively stop what he’s doing, with a feeling he could do much worse than that. This means not only will more rape scandals come to the BSB, but all members will be guilty of adultery or cheating on their wives with their fans it’s going to be big news. And if they perform in concert that once the floods arrive, they’ll all drown and die. It seems the whole drowning in your love song seems more like something to satiate their egos with.

The song ‘It’s Gonna Be Me’ never got sung by them, even if it exposes them for what they do. But that would mean owning up to what they do is wrong, striving to do better afterwards even if their efforts backfire (well, I could be relying on my own strength then). Unfortunately the Backstreet Boys never bother to do anything spiritually better, so it’s on them why they all got caught in the act for having affairs with their fans, showing up as demons this Christmas in Austria, and then getting killed in a flood that if witchcraft’s linked to rebellion, then they’ll never live long and I struggle with rebellion a lot to the point of getting comeuppances every now and then. At this point it’s going to get much worse for the Backstreet Boys also because the US economy’s in freefall, and if they do something this Christmas season they’ll get coal instead.

Affairs will be revealed for all of them, that it’s going to be terrifying why they choose to do evil anyways. To the point of having all of them die by drowning.

Not a paragon

Nakita said that JY Park is a false prophet and his company will go down in flames for what he preaches, that company will end by the end of this year and his attempts at rebuilding it results in losing two of his children. Nakita also said that celebrities will also die due to their involvement in witchcraft and the like, but she talked about the way members of the band Stray Kids turned into. She said that early on they weren’t this muscular, but eventually they did bulk up. I also had this nagging feeling that JY Park must probably be gay, in that he actually molests those members in his care. I think she talked about it before in another video, but even before knowing this I felt that K-Pop boy bands are sexualised in a way their western counterparts aren’t to the same extent and frequency.

Like you don’t see western boy bands wearing crop tops and mesh shirts in concerts and onstage, you don’t see western boy bands constantly bearing their chests a lot either, though I’m probably wrong about this with others like Backstreet Boys. But even then I don’t think you’ll ever see Nick Carter wearing a crop top or mesh shirt, not even in his prime, the way his Korean counterparts do. Nor do many of the Backstreet Boys constantly dye their hair in unusual colours the way their Korean counterparts do, which was something those outside of the boy band world are wont to do (i.e. the late Keith Flint from the Prodigy). Neither member of the Backstreet Boys frequently wear makeup the way their Korean counterparts do, which is again something those outside of boy bands are willing to do (Daniel Ash from Bauhaus, Keith Flint again, Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran, Boy George from Culture Club).

I guess for western boy bands, the sort of image they’re made to cultivate is something to dissuade young lasses’ parents from distrusting them, even though many boy bands as we know it are made by executives to appeal to a certain audience. So they can’t look too shocking, lest parents be horrified by what they do. Whereas it doesn’t seem to be the case with their Korean counterparts, who seem to be more openly sexualised and glammed up. I don’t think I’ve ever seen any member of a western boy band wear bondage harnesses the way their Korean counterparts do, but that goes to show you how sexualised Korean boy bands and singers really are. Even odder still is how and why JY Park proclaims himself to be a Christian, yet turns a blind eye to Stray Kids putting out songs like Hellivision and God’s Diner.

Why on earth would a Christian condone these things, without even disciplining them at all? If the blind leading the blind both fall into a ditch together, then it’s on JY Park why Stray Kids will face many more scandals to come. Stray Kids might not remain together for long and so will other boy bands in the future, even the Backstreet Boys will meet an untimely end for their pride and affairs with fans that will be discovered and revealed in public. I remember somebody on Livejournal saying that AJ McLean would have affairs with his fans in nearly every Backstreet Boys cruise and another stating that they know somebody who has an affair with Nick Carter, but with the latter being the subject of rape accusations, one would wonder if he’s actually grooming her to be his mistress or something.

To the point where there’s practically nothing feminist about the Backstreet Boys when they see women as sex objects in some way or another, not just with Brian Littrell taking a photograph of his wife’s buttocks and then showing it in public, but also AJ McLean and Nick Carter having affairs with their fans that these will be leaked to the public for what they really are. And they get judged for enabling these things, to the point of warranting death as God doesn’t tolerate such characters to live. I remember a YouTube video insinuating that people like Brian Littrell are arrogant, whereas a radio preacher insinuated that people like him are wicked. If both JY Park and Brian Littrell have anything in common, despite being self-proclaimed Christians, they love the world more than they love God.

They love being of the world rather than simply being in it, to the point where whatever faith they profess is performative as to be lukewarm. It would be shocking if other Backstreet Boys like Howie, Kevin and Brian also have affairs with their fans, but this goes to show you that not only are they worldly and crave the attention their fans give to them, but also see women as potential sex objects in some way or another as to groom them into being their mistresses if Nick Carter’s any indication. It would be horrifying if the Backstreet Boys showed up onstage as demons, whereas Stray Kids have already released such songs like ‘Hellevator’ and ‘God’s Menu’. It would be baffling why would Christians like Brian Littrell and JY Park be okay with singing blasphemous songs like ‘Everybody’ and ‘God’s Menu’, or other members fornicating without rebuking them.

It’s pretty strange why Brian Littrell never really confronted AJ McLean for cheating on his ex-wife by sleeping with his fans (or Nick Carter flirting with women other than his wife), but it’s possible he never confronted them because he enables them on some level. It’s possible that JY Park was at one some point a truly practising Christian, but over time came to enable his musicians’ vices and turning a blind eye to whatever they’re doing. Even then it’s pretty strange why would self-proclaimed Christians like JY Park and Brian Littrell turn a blind eye to their colleagues’ and employees’ sins, but it goes to show you that bad company corrupts character. Brian Littrell truly lived a Christian life at some point, but the more he hung out with other secular musicians, the worldlier he got.

It’s like if you hang out with bullies, you begin to bully somebody too as it is with me at some point or one of my cousins for another matter. So it shouldn’t be surprising how and why both JY Park and Brian Littrell turned out this way together, they hang out a lot more with worldly people than they should be doing. So it’s on them why scandals happen and in Park’s case, his company will be no more by the end of this year. And if he does try to rebuild it, he’s going to lose his relatives one by one. Nakita also said that many K-Pop singers will die, if God doesn’t want any competition he’ll take away any idol (as he did to me before but with other things). It’s possible for the Korean music industry to still thrive and survive, but the loss of K-Pop idols would result in a substantially different version of it by then.

The Korean music industry didn’t actively cultivate idol type musicians before, even if people still made idols out of Trot and ballad singers every now and then. But between these two and K-Pop, it’s K-Pop that South Korea actively chooses to promote and popularise. Idolatry would still be a problem if people did this to ballad singers and not to K-Pop idols, but I feel prioritising K-Pop a lot more resulted in problems that should’ve never occurred like saesang stalkers. Nakita even said that this is the cause of low birth rates in South Korea, or at least one of the many causes that not many are willing to admit in polite company. One might wonder if the 4B movement occurred because some women’s standards for what men ought to be were set too high by their consumption of K-Pop media, though this would be too offensive to admit in public.

Even if this is fairly plausible as a lot of K-Pop male singers are highly calculated to appeal to women and young girls, in the same way reading pornographic books can contribute to ridiculously high expectations for what boyfriends and husbands should be. Very politically incorrect to point this out but this is plausible for some people really, so this is possibly why South Koreans aren’t having babies because deep down inside some Korean women prefer idealised lovers to putting up with a flawed but loving partner. Even if K-Pop fangirling doesn’t necessarily cause low birthrates, but with the menfolk being so idealised that it does interfere with one’s chances of actually landing a man, let alone an Asian man.

It’s good to see that Asian men are far from sexless and desexualised, but it also leads to the opposite problem because of how idealised K-Pop celebrities are and tend to be. That’s not to say Asian men are necessarily effeminate nor are they macho, but that they’re like every other guy at times. Normal blokes in other words when it comes to things like a love of sports and video games, but even when ethnicity’s not always taken into consideration, such media portrays ridiculously idealised men that even K-Pop singers themselves may not always fulfill in private and offline. Bang Chan might be somebody who wouldn’t share your interests in fashion and cooking, might possibly be a big fan of boxing and enjoys a cool glass of beer to soy milk. In the same way that Harry Styles, despite his crossdressing, might be rather vanilla in person.

Even celebrities themselves may not live up to the images they cultivate, if somebody like Neil Gaiman’s any indication regarding his abuse of women in real life. So it’s possible that Wonho might be really fatphobic in person, being the sort of guy who highly prioritises fitness and health a lot. Brian Littrell might not be that pious, and Nick Carter would easily be that annoying gamer dudebro one encounters online on a bad day. I was into a celebrity before and it hurt me that they didn’t share some of my interests, so it’s possible that others would’ve felt the same way around their own favourites. Even if they do a good job at trying to live up to the image they cultivated themselves, they may not always consistently live up to it and may sometimes espouse contrary values.

For instance, Nick Carter might try to make himself to a friendly nerdy guy. But on a bad day he’d easily turn into one of those Gamergate adherents, since there are people who say that he objectifies and abuses women. One would wonder if he was born in 1990 and instead of joining Backstreet Boys, he’d be more openly misogynistic and would even join the Gamergate movement by then. Even if not all gamer guys born in the 1990s turned out this way, given his own attitude to women that he would’ve easily joined Gamergate had he turned of age in the 2000s and 2010s. Gamergate being this misogynistic gamer dude movement that’s against anything feminist in video games and video game criticism, with Anita Sarkeesian being a big target.

Perhaps Burk Parsons’s father was in the right to keep his son from joining the Backstreet Boys, lest Burk himself be the subject of many pornographic fanfictions on somewhere like AO3, even if the younger Parsons may’ve flirted with becoming a singer at some point. But if it’s best to follow the superiors’ advice, then Burk Parsons is better off for it and at some point, I did have a habit of listening to multiple sermons at once. But since it caused problems so eventually I had to go easy with those and now it’s one sermon at a time, so I can see the benefit in following people’s advice in not doing certain things. Maybe a life in showbiz isn’t cut out as it appears to be, especially if it’s something that risks violating one’s privacy as it is with Ace of Base and now Chappell Roan.

As if living in near obscurity’s better for their mental health, than it is to be surrounded by demanding fans who may not always have your best interests. So it seems being rich and famous creates more problems than it solves, like how and why people are out to expose your dirty secrets. But if people are out to distrust any celebrity in any magazine and newspaper, then there’s no point in holding them up as paragons to begin with. If people find them suspicious on some level, then celebrity culture is bound to be bad because there’s no point in holding up people you don’t trust as paragons and role models. Especially if others are out to tear them down at any point, then it’s never going to do people any good really.

This may not even be unique to KPop really but regardless if it’s America or South Korea, celebrity culture is bound to set people up for something bad. Other countries like Russia may not have a strong tradition of showbiz, with others saying that showbiz is really the spiritual successor to the freak show. In the sense that it involves being made into a spectacle in some way or another, with the circus geek getting noticed for biting off a chicken’s head. Or for another matter, pop stars getting noticed for their scandals and dressing outrageously. The late Ozzy Ozbourne would be the modern version of the circus geek, only this time he bit off a bat’s head instead. Even then, showbiz is going to be suspicious anyways.

Especially if it involves making a spectacle of oneself, which would explain why some musicians dress the way they do. So linking showbiz to freak shows makes some weird sense, but also why it also readily invites pride (making oneself higher than they really are) and why Satan got banished for this. So celebrity culture does almost no good in hindsight, spiritually speaking.

It’s No Good

It’s not wrong to like video games, sports, films or anything else for as long as you don’t turn them into idols, same goes for anything Christian which is something I’ve done before. But I feel the problematic part with secular video games and sports is how ridiculously long they play, especially if/when people should be worshipping God at crucial hours. It’s not wrong to play video games or sports, it’s not wrong being a professional game developer or a professional athlete. But there still needs to be time for God, even if the Devil does a lot to find a way to delay this. There are times where I’ve delayed something, whether by accident or due to my sins (hard to say).

Sometimes God delays something to make us wait and to appreciate the answer when it arrives at his time, but the problem with the way some games (both video games and sports) are done is that they’re made more addictive than they should be. Loving one or both of them isn’t bad for as long as you don’t turn them into idols, but the way the games are played (especially for long hours) makes it harder not to. It’s not wrong to mourn what games you’ve missed, but games shouldn’t be an idol and neither should video games. At any point where people would’ve taken the time to listen to sermons in any medium or format, others choose to have idols and this is something I’ve done before and risked the consequences of doing it.

It’s not wrong to play games, whether if it’s a video game or football, but they shouldn’t take priority over God. They’re not inherently wrong but in the case with video games, some have ridiculously long session hours that make it harder to take the time to read the Bible and devotionals and listen to sermons. Similarly enough, sports games get played longer than they should, eating up whatever time athletes, fans and coaches need to worship God when it should’ve been done. Similar things can also be said of secular films and music, which is something I’ve learnt with the former. The more I take the time listening to a sermon and waiting for it, the less time I have for secular music.

Sometimes I miss a sermon due to my own sins (this has happened before with some stations I like), but I’m doing my best not to let it happen again and my way of passing the time is to play multiple sermons on other channels and stations, just so I wouldn’t lose my cool even if it doesn’t always go as expected. It’s weird but I don’t want to throw a fit and get super-anxious, so it’s something I do my best to avoid letting my emotions get the better of me. It’s imperfect but I don’t want to lose my cool, so bear with me here. But even then at this time, with myself getting more addicted to listening to sermons that I end up listening to less secular music as a result.

In waiting for sermons to happen, I end up listening to more Christian music this way. I listen to secular music less and less often, when a social media channel starts livestreaming sermons I start paying more attention to it. I do take breaks from listening to sermons and Christian music by listening to some secular music every evening, but even then I still take the time to listen to sermons and Christian music when I have to. I have less time to listen to sermons the more I get closer to God, so I end up having less time to watch sports games or play video games. It’s not wrong to play football or video games, for as long as they don’t take priority over God.

But if they play longer than they should, they’re effectively eating up time needed to worship him. They’re not inherently wrong, they can be enjoyed for a few minutes or a maximum of several minutes before it’s time to read the Bible and listen to sermons again. Just as secular music can be enjoyed for several minutes before some social media channel starts livestreaming sermons/church services, as it is with me these days.