Just a small selection of stars that have alter egos include:
- Beyonce (Sasha Fierce)
- Lady Gaga (male alter ego Jo Calderone)
- Nicki Minaj (Barbie, Roman Zolanski, Roman’s mother)
- Eminem (Slim Shady)
- Lil Wayne (Weezy)
- Lil B (Based God)
- Tyler the Creator (Wolf Haley and many others).
Often it is the artist’s alter ego that we see in stage performances or who play a part in the production of music videos.
While some people believe that these alter egos are a form of split personality brought on by trauma based mind control – part of a covert government mind control program known as MK ULTRA (which isn’t as far fetched as it sounds when you start to look into it) is it possible there is something even darker at play?
One of Nicki Minaj’s many alter egos is named Roman Zolanski, a reference to film director Roman Polanski. He directed the film Rosemary’s Baby, which depicts a woman being raped by the devil and giving birth to the AntiChrist as part of a secret plan by a group of society’s elite.
Minaj’s alter Roman is said to have been birthed through rage, she doesn’t want him to be there but he won’t go away and he speaks through her without her control. As we’ll see later in the article Minaj represents her alter Roman as a form of demon possessing her.
Tyler the Creator of Odd Future refers to his alter ego Wolf Haley as the “evil voice in his head”. Wolf Haley is the producer of most of Odd Future’s videos and is represented as a version of Tyler who has blacked out eyes – a reference to demon possession and possibly also to “Sleep Paralysis Demons“, which are negative beings sometimes encountered in the stage between wakefulness and sleep.
Are popular artists creating these “demonic selves” subconsciously, or are they consciously channelling demons?
There are two kinds of black magicians: (1) those who use the demons of the astral plane for their villainy, which they invoke through necromancy and invocation; and (2) those who create their own demons and launch them against the world. The first group does the greatest harm to the world, but the second injure themselves more. The first group is composed mostly of conscious black magicians, while there are many in the second group who are totally ignorant of what they are doing. Some never learn their mistake until the demons they have created come back to the persons who sent them forth.
– Manly P Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics
By disassociating themselves from their negative behaviours through the use of alter egos popular musicians could conceivably be teaching their fans – many of whom are likely to be young and impressionable despite the frequently explicit content of the music they are consuming – that it’s okay not to take responsibility for your actions, and that it’s socially acceptable to indulge the darker aspects of the personality, or even to allow darker forces from outside of a person into their body.
David Bowie in Rolling Stone magazine (Feb. 12, 1976), stunned the music world, when he stated:
“Rock has always been THE DEVIL’S MUSIC . . . I believe rock and roll is dangerous . . . I feel we’re only heralding SOMETHING EVEN DARKER THAN OURSELVES.”
Celebrating the Macabre
Some artists also appear to glorify the ancient practices of blood and human sacrifice, which were practised in old civilisations that degenerated. These dark rituals were used in the invocation or worship of demons and were believed to grant powers or long life to those conducting the sacrifice.
In 2012 while performing her song Cannibal on stage in Australia, Ke$ha appeared to pull a heart out of someone’s chest before drinking blood from it (to cheers from the crowd of her fans who are known as ‘animals’). She finished the set with blood all over her face and chest. When questioned about it afterwards she said that she was really inspired to do it, and that it was real. Later in the same year a fan sent her a bloody knife in the mail.
Realizing that life is maintained by the aid of a mysterious universal life force which is the common property of all creatures, the black magician often becomes an occult vampire, stealing this energy from others.
– Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages
Similar imagery can be seen in the cover art of Die Antwoord’s (Afrikaans for “The Answer”) album Ten$ion which features an image of their female vocalist Yolandi Vi$$er with pitch black eyes holding a heart with blood running from her mouth. What makes this reference even more compelling is that she is dressed to represent an angel with white hair, pale skin, and white wings. This is a device seen in other areas of the music industry where positive esoteric symbolism is confused with negative symbolism so it is all made to seem dark.
In the video clip ‘I Fink U Freeky’ from the Ten$ion album the same imagery is shown with the black eyed “angel” pulling the heart out of a man with horns before eating it. This clip also contains references to black magic in the numerologically significant number 16 which represents influence by black magicians.
In the video clip for ‘Love Me’ by Lil Wayne women are shown in cages and rolling around on the floor covered in blood with allusions to mind control programming, while we see Lil Wayne depicted as soulless and demonic.
Arianna Grande who began her career in Nickelodeon and has many young fans, took this picture of herself and co-stars covered in blood for Halloween. The image on the right was originally posted upside down so it looked like she had been hung up. In a different Halloween costume she posed as a blood-covered vampire.
And we can’t forget Lady Gaga who also often ends up covered in blood on stage, and recently stated that she might be a Vampire.
In one harrowing experience for hotel staff – who were told to put the incident out of their minds – she left large amounts of blood in a hotel bath, leaving many of the staff to speculate that she was using the blood as part of some sort of ritual.
Lady Gaga in her own words is obsessed with death and sex. Her debut perfume ‘Fame’ – the world’s first black eau de perfume which Gaga wanted to represent the “dark heart of fame” – sold 30 million bottles. Maybe not so out of the ordinary, except that the perfume contains synthetic pheromones based on a sample of Lady Gaga’s blood and what is rumoured to be Marilyn Manson’s semen. The scent also includes atropa belladonna, a deadly nightshade with a history of use both as witches ointment and poison. Gaga’s perfume was advertised with a commercial that plays like scenes from a horror film, and was promoted by posters around the world featuring Gaga wearing a black face mask.
Aleister Crowley (the “wickedest man alive”) once wrote in his diary:
Magically speaking, blood and excrement attracting spirits, sperm keeping them alive.
Perfume or potion, 30 million ‘Little Monsters’ (the name for Gaga’s fans) around the world have now been “anointed” by this product.
Lady Gaga is also plagued by recurring nightmares, possibly due to her obsession with horror films, and her habit of “bulimically eating and regurgitating monster movies”. Gaga uses her nightmares as inspiration for her songs and video clips, a course of action that – strangely – is promoted to some degree by the commercial spiritual movement.
When Gaga gets really stuck over the meaning of a dream, she turns to her pal, spiritual advisor Deepak Chopra.
The singer asked him to help her interpret a dream in which she’s eating a human heart.
She adds, “I was freaking out… I was like, ‘The devil’s trying to take me, Deepak. I’m a good girl!’ And Deepak goes, ‘You are so very creative, my Gaga. You should make this into a video.’ And I guess, in his own way, he spoke to me about learning to respect and honor my insanity. It’s part of who I am.” Source
Demonic and Ghostly References and Experiences
If you’ve ever had a bad dream or nightmare you may have encountered demonic beings of some sort or other. Nightmares occur when the psyche enters infernal regions – commonly known as hell in different spiritual traditions. Some feel that certain kinds of music can emit infernal vibrations, lowering the resonance of a person’s psyche and contributing to them having nightmares.
With so many artists fascinated by the macabre and forces of darkness, for many popular artists the reality of demonic experiences appears to extend to the physical world.
Ke$ha – who has stated that ‘dead entities cling to her’ – caused controversy in a series of national interviews on television, radio and in print when she revealed that she had engaged in intimate sexual acts with a “ghost” and that as a result she had had her private parts exorcised. Ke$ha drew inspiration for her song ‘Supernatural‘ from this experience in which she sings:
I feel it in my blood, want the darker side
…
Poison me with love, I’ll bring you back to life
Arianna Grande stated in an interview with Complex magazine that she began having demonic experiences after visiting the infamous Stull cemetery, said to be one of the seven gateways to hell on earth, and a place that is considered so evil that the Pope won’t even fly over it.
After driving to the cemetery with friends, Grande said:
“I felt this sick, overwhelming feeling of negativity over the whole car and we smelled sulphur, which is the sign of a demon, and there was a fly in the car randomly, which is another sign of a demon.
“I rolled down the window before we left and said, ‘We apologise. We didn’t mean to disrupt your peace.’ Then I took a picture and there are three super distinct faces in the picture – they’re the faces of textbook demons,” Source
Grande continues to describe what sounds like a common scenario experienced by many people throughout history in the sleep paralysis (atonia) stage of the sleep cycle – a natural phenomena which paralyses our muscles as we go to sleep to stop us from sleep walking (somnambulism). During this transition dark beings are often seen or heard, frequently causing a great deal of fear in the person having the experience.
“As soon as I closed my eyes I heard this really loud rumble right by my head,” Ms Grande told Complex. “When I opened my eyes it stopped immediately, but when I closed my eyes it started again with whispers.
“Every time I closed my eyes I started seeing these really disturbing images with, like, red shapes,” she said. “And then I scooched over to the left side of my bed, because that’s where the best service is in my room, and there was this massive black matter. I don’t know what it was.” Source
In Nicki Minaj’s 2012 Grammy performance she is possessed by the spirit of her alter ego Roman Zolanski only to be ‘exorcised’ on stage in a very ritualistic performance complete with a fake priest and backup dancers wearing robes. As part of the performance a video of Minaj is shown titled ‘The Exorcism of Roman’ where we see Minaj possessed and looking disoriented before flying up to the ceiling screaming ‘Roman’ in a demonic tone.
In the video Yonkers produced by Tyler the Creator’s alter ego Wolf Haley (the evil voice inside his head) we see Tyler in silhouette with the brim of his cap appearing as a horn on his forehead. He begins rapping while playing with a large cockroach. He eats the cockroach, vomits, his eyes turn pitch black and then he hangs himself. Both the cockroach and black eyes are direct references to the movie the Exorcism of Emily Rose, which was loosely based on the real events of the possession of a young farm girl who died at the hands of her exorcists. Interestingly Tyler’s eyes turn pitch black when he begins rapping about his alter ego Wolf Haley, and in the extended version of the video clip black-eyed Wolf Haley survives after Tyler dies and continues to rap saying that Tyler’s conscience is dead.
These are just some of the references to demonic forces in Odd Future’s music. In the song Goblin Tyler raps that he’s “not even human, [he’s] a body shaped demon” and in the lyrics of Tron Cat on the same album is the line “Satan’s getting jealous of the wolves (Odd Future), the demons say they preferring us”.
Demonic symbolism is also fairly blatant in Die Antwoord’s work. While Die Antwoord appear to initially have been interested in positive esotericism in some form (this video from an early incarnation of the group talks about demon hunting, not harming anyone and developing psychic faculties), their recent work is very dark, mocking white esotericism, and including references to spell casting, the number of the beast and demonic imagery.
Die Antwoord sample Aphex Twin in their music, another artist involved with dark magic arts whose track Come to Daddy is comprised mainly of the following lyrics repeated over and over: I want your soul, I’m going to eat your soul.
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