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Initech

(100,060 posts)
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:45 PM Aug 2019

Tiffany FitzHenry: Country Songs Contain Spells and Musical Scales 'Change Your DNA'

Tiffany FitzHenry, a self-described “bestselling author, public speaker, screenwriter, [and] Hollywood whistleblower,” appeared on Chris McDonald’s “The MC Files” program earlier this week, where she claimed that country music songs are actually spells used to control people, and that the musical scales used in contemporary music were designed to “change your DNA.”

FitzHenry claimed that she had recently been doing some editing work for “a massive, massive country music star” and was shown a “list of words” that the performer receives that must be used in their songs.

“There are lists of words that they get that they have to put these words, certain words, into their songs,” she said. “These are spells. If you’ve ever wondered, ‘Why does every country music song mention alcohol, whiskey?’ I think there was a study done that said 90 percent of country music songs in some form or fashion mention or make reference to, if not outright [promote] drinking. There has been a great illusion put over us and music is so powerful.”

FitzHenry went on to assert that “the music scale was changed” by the Rockefellers or Rothchilds back in the early part of the 20th century to shift it away from the natural frequency created by God.

“There is a frequency that is sort of the God frequency and then there is a frequency that is just sort of off from that,” she said. “Our scale of modern music [is] off from the real resonance, it’s just a scale down. We don’t realize it, but all of our music is tainted in this way and sound has a powerful influence, a powerful effect on our bodies, on our minds. We’re 75 percent water, and so when something reverberates though you, it changes your DNA.”
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/tiffany-fitzhenry-country-songs-contain-spells-and-musical-scales-change-your-dna/



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Tiffany FitzHenry: Country Songs Contain Spells and Musical Scales 'Change Your DNA' (Original Post) Initech Aug 2019 OP
Wow! It's a good thing I never willingly listen to country songs. n/t elocs Aug 2019 #1
Yeah, I prefer rock and metal. Initech Aug 2019 #2
I was 11 when The Beatles played Sullivan and they hit me like a ton of bricks. elocs Aug 2019 #13
Oh, so THAT'S what happened. nt tblue37 Aug 2019 #3
She is sort of right - new country is pandering and circular underpants Aug 2019 #4
I was going to post that 912gdm Aug 2019 #11
+1 backtoblue Aug 2019 #17
And she's right about standard pitch changing, but it doesn't have anything to do with conspiracy woodsprite Aug 2019 #19
Well *that* is interesting! blaze Aug 2019 #28
Wow, thanks! I love Music History! Ilsa Aug 2019 #42
Thank you. I learn more on DU than any other place. GulfCoast66 Aug 2019 #48
Bo is a fucking NATIONAL TREASURE ChubbyStar Aug 2019 #24
He's dead on underpants Aug 2019 #26
Yep - trucks, hats, beer, guns, hot chicks and mah home town . . . . hatrack Aug 2019 #47
Whiskey is on the "God frequency" in my opinion.. ExciteBike66 Aug 2019 #5
Considering so many modern country songs are about hard drinking... Initech Aug 2019 #9
If it weren't for booze customerserviceguy Aug 2019 #14
And the death of a favorite dog. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2019 #21
Mama, trains, trucks, and prison Clash City Rocker Aug 2019 #31
That was worth listening to dflprincess Aug 2019 #51
You beat me to it... lol. nt Progressive Jones Aug 2019 #54
G Major was considered the "Key of Benediction" during the Baroque period. woodsprite Aug 2019 #20
Bingo. "munged" up for sure. Collected and developed from Pastor Bob some long ago Sunday morning. yonder Aug 2019 #35
Oh it ain't just the drinkin'. It's about the whiskey makin' and runnin'. trof Aug 2019 #40
Kinda. jmowreader Aug 2019 #41
I would split a few hairs with you. trof Aug 2019 #43
Tiffany should seek help. spanone Aug 2019 #6
To be honest, I will agree that most country songs do contain secret spells.... Tommy_Carcetti Aug 2019 #7
Standard winger extremist nuttery except she is attacking country which seems odd. Thomas Hurt Aug 2019 #8
Tiffany FitzHenry, kindly piss off. Moostache Aug 2019 #10
Every country song is written by the same algorithm... BlueIdaho Aug 2019 #12
Sounds like a Hannity Radio Show. Midnight Writer Aug 2019 #18
You hurt my brain with that. :'( OhZone Aug 2019 #29
Yeah - sorry about that! nt. BlueIdaho Aug 2019 #44
The modern scales have changed? MuseRider Aug 2019 #15
We're playing the same scales we were playing 2500 years ago (from the Greeks.) fierywoman Aug 2019 #36
Yes, and look how well we have done with them! MuseRider Aug 2019 #37
When I played in Venice (la Fenice)the A was around 445. A colleague used to fierywoman Aug 2019 #39
Damn, you don't even have to play the songs backwards! Va Lefty Aug 2019 #16
When you do... ThoughtCriminal Aug 2019 #45
pfft! blogslut Aug 2019 #22
I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison. Ptah Aug 2019 #25
Don't fergit yore dawg, and yore... 3catwoman3 Aug 2019 #58
Is that the same frequency that my GOD spelled backwards listens too? TheBlackAdder Aug 2019 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author KatyaR Aug 2019 #27
Yes, and wind turbines cause cancer. gordianot Aug 2019 #30
I mean there's some truth here... jcgoldie Aug 2019 #32
I went to this loon's Twitter page... Archae Aug 2019 #33
The music scale was changed? really???? sdfernando Aug 2019 #34
No problem. Eat a meatless burger while you're listening and that will change the DNA right back. tanyev Aug 2019 #38
These people are fucking insane. They should not be given any sort of power. Initech Aug 2019 #50
I DO know if you play a country song backwards... wyldwolf Aug 2019 #46
Sounds pretty batshit, but no more than one who believes cancer & AIDS result from negative thoughts Tarc Aug 2019 #49
This reminds me of a song by David Allen Coe...what does a perfect country song need ... apcalc Aug 2019 #52
That is a whole lot of crazy for a mind to absorb. nt Blue_true Aug 2019 #53
OK, the funniest thread I've read on DU in quite awhile! Ligyron Aug 2019 #55
I learned similar at BYU (Ricks) FreeState Aug 2019 #56
Tiffany FitzNutty sez what? area51 Aug 2019 #57
Woo Woo! MineralMan Aug 2019 #59

elocs

(22,566 posts)
13. I was 11 when The Beatles played Sullivan and they hit me like a ton of bricks.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:01 PM
Aug 2019

I grew up with classic rock and roll and still prefer it.

underpants

(182,739 posts)
4. She is sort of right - new country is pandering and circular
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:49 PM
Aug 2019

The songs are more instructions to behavior and lifestyle than you could imagine. The Rockefellers sand Rothchilds part is full on nuts.

woodsprite

(11,910 posts)
19. And she's right about standard pitch changing, but it doesn't have anything to do with conspiracy
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:12 PM
Aug 2019

The A above middle C is often set at 440 Hz, which is known as Modern Standard Concert pitch. It's what instruments tune to. Historically, this A has been tuned to a variety of higher and lower pitches based on the instrumentation available throughout history. Our music director is always saying what the piece WOULD have been keyed in if we lived back in the 16-1700s -- and the Sopranos and Tenors are always thankful we are singing in the 21st Century.

From a Wikipedia article on Concert Pitch:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch

"During historical periods when instrumental music rose in prominence (relative to the voice), there was a continuous tendency for pitch levels to rise. This "pitch inflation" seemed largely a product of instrumentalists competing with each other, each attempting to produce a brighter, more "brilliant", sound than that of their rivals. (In string instruments, this is not all acoustic illusion: when tuned up, they actually sound objectively brighter because the higher string tension results in larger amplitudes for the harmonics.) This tendency was also prevalent with wind instrument manufacturers, who crafted their instruments to play generally at a higher pitch than those made by the same craftsmen years earlier.[citation needed]

On at least two occasions, pitch inflation had become so severe that reform became needed. At the beginning of the 17th century, Michael Praetorius reported in his encyclopedic Syntagma musicum that pitch levels had become so high that singers were experiencing severe throat strain and lutenists and viol players were complaining of snapped strings. The standard voice ranges he cites show that the pitch level of his time, at least in the part of Germany where he lived, was at least a minor third higher than today's. Solutions to this problem were sporadic and local, but generally involved the establishment of separate standards for voice and organ (German: Chorton, lit. 'choir tone') and for chamber ensembles (German: Kammerton, lit. 'chamber tone'). Where the two were combined, as for example in a cantata, the singers and instrumentalists might perform from music written in different keys. This system kept pitch inflation at bay for some two centuries.[5]

The advent of the orchestra as an independent (as opposed to accompanying) ensemble brought pitch inflation to the fore again. The rise in pitch during this time can be seen reflected in tuning forks. An 1815 tuning fork from the Dresden opera house gives A = About this sound423.2 Hz,[3] while an 1826 fork from the same opera house gives A = About this sound435 Hz. At La Scala in Milan, the A above middle C rose as high as About this sound451 Hz.[3] "

Ilsa

(61,692 posts)
42. Wow, thanks! I love Music History!
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 07:21 PM
Aug 2019

I wish I had taken Theory so that I could understand all of it, but I didn't have the time or energy to devote to it.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
48. Thank you. I learn more on DU than any other place.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 10:26 PM
Aug 2019

I vaguely knew music had changed over the year just by being an avid reader. That really was interesting.

My parents put me in various music classes but it soon became apparent, in the words of my grandmother “I could not carry a tune in a wash bucket”!

But regarding the article, you never answered the most pressing question:

Which style does god favor?

underpants

(182,739 posts)
26. He's dead on
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 03:41 PM
Aug 2019

I spent 2 hours last summer at a pool with this crap BLARING from the speakers. It’s so incredibly pandering. Jeans beer pick up truck etc. and it’s yelled AT the listener like they are giving commands. After 2 hours I told my daughter we needed to go.

hatrack

(59,583 posts)
47. Yep - trucks, hats, beer, guns, hot chicks and mah home town . . . .
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 08:55 PM
Aug 2019

Tried Y2Country or whatever the Sirius channel is.

ExciteBike66

(2,322 posts)
5. Whiskey is on the "God frequency" in my opinion..
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:50 PM
Aug 2019

“There is a frequency that is sort of the God frequency and then there is a frequency that is just sort of off from that,”

Initech

(100,060 posts)
9. Considering so many modern country songs are about hard drinking...
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:53 PM
Aug 2019

I'm guessing that the booze has something to do with it!

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
14. If it weren't for booze
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:02 PM
Aug 2019

and adultery, what would country songs be about? Crop failure?



Note: I am a country music fan, but I thought that joke was funny.

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,841 posts)
21. And the death of a favorite dog.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:38 PM
Aug 2019

Plus the time the pick-up broke down.

Oh, and washing cloth diapers in a wringer washer and hanging them on the line to dry.

Clearly those who write country songs are ignoring a lot of possible subjects.

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
31. Mama, trains, trucks, and prison
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:02 PM
Aug 2019

Listen to this song. If you’re impatient, you can forward to the three minute mark to hear the joke.

woodsprite

(11,910 posts)
20. G Major was considered the "Key of Benediction" during the Baroque period.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:17 PM
Aug 2019

I think she heard a lot of these tidbits of miscellaneous info, passed out in a religious frenzy, and the bits of info munged together in her brain.

yonder

(9,663 posts)
35. Bingo. "munged" up for sure. Collected and developed from Pastor Bob some long ago Sunday morning.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:44 PM
Aug 2019

Tiff has had a few too many Coco-Puffs before the sermon. She doesn't sound familiar with music either: she keeps using scale to describe what I think she means to be pitch.

Scale: "Is that in C or Am?" or "Listen to this new tune I have in D mixolydian, and no, it's not in G."
Pitch: "Paddy left the hammered dulcimer in the hot car so it's a bit flat, let's all tune down to him for now."

trof

(54,256 posts)
40. Oh it ain't just the drinkin'. It's about the whiskey makin' and runnin'.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 06:52 PM
Aug 2019

The birth of NASCAR was moonshiners running whiskey.


jmowreader

(50,552 posts)
41. Kinda.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 07:14 PM
Aug 2019

What really happened is the runners - NOT the moonshiners, because moonshiners hired other people to move their wares - refused to haul shine on Sunday. Instead, they got together and raced each other. People started coming out to watch the runners race. The runners decided to start renting county fair horse tracks and charging the fans admission.

trof

(54,256 posts)
43. I would split a few hairs with you.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 07:28 PM
Aug 2019

Many times the drivers were family members.
You can trust family...usually.
They weren't 'hired', they had a piece of the action...the 'family business'.

I grew up in Alabama.
Anybody connected with illegal whiskey making was called moonshiners.
We didn't distinguish between distillers and drivers.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,166 posts)
7. To be honest, I will agree that most country songs do contain secret spells....
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:51 PM
Aug 2019

....that cause me to instantly turn the station on the radio.

Any member of The Highwayman clearly excluded from this spell, obviously.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
10. Tiffany FitzHenry, kindly piss off.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 01:53 PM
Aug 2019

We need more "woo" like we need more methane thawing...people with that much bat guano running through their air passages need to get outside from some fresh air already.

OhZone

(3,212 posts)
29. You hurt my brain with that. :'(
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 03:51 PM
Aug 2019

Now, I need some Joan Jett, All Time Low, Blink 182, and some Tegan and Sara.

MuseRider

(34,104 posts)
15. The modern scales have changed?
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 02:04 PM
Aug 2019

I must inform the oboist. She is tuning the whole orchestra off not on Gods original frequency.

This is some wacky shit.

I do not like country music so I do not know about that.

MuseRider

(34,104 posts)
37. Yes, and look how well we have done with them!
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 05:42 PM
Aug 2019

Everything from chants to modern music!

I believe that orchestras are tuning to A441 now as opposed to the old A440 but I somehow do not think this is what this wacko was talking about.

*I just tune to what the oboist give us.

fierywoman

(7,680 posts)
39. When I played in Venice (la Fenice)the A was around 445. A colleague used to
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 06:29 PM
Aug 2019

join us who would come from Berlin, and he would have to tune DOWN to our A; he said the A there was around 448.

And let's not forget what the jazzers do with the modal scales!

I agree: a wacko, apparently a "civilian."

Response to Initech (Original post)

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
30. Yes, and wind turbines cause cancer.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 03:53 PM
Aug 2019

A large number of people in the United States supports the loon who provided that observation.

jcgoldie

(11,627 posts)
32. I mean there's some truth here...
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:14 PM
Aug 2019

If you forced me to listen to fucking country music I'd start with the whiskey in the morning also... just sayin'.

Archae

(46,314 posts)
33. I went to this loon's Twitter page...
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:14 PM
Aug 2019

Just about any and every conspiracy theory is talked up, and lots of "You're so good for doing the Lord's work!" -type praise.

The same webpage in the OP also frequently posts stuff from a crazy just as bad, Liz Crokin.

BTW, I have on Pandora, my "KC and The Sunshine Band" channel.

Is disco music part of this conspiracy too?

sdfernando

(4,929 posts)
34. The music scale was changed? really????
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 04:41 PM
Aug 2019

OMFG!!!! She is full blown crazy! Seriously needs mental help....and good music theory class wouldn't hurt either!

tanyev

(42,542 posts)
38. No problem. Eat a meatless burger while you're listening and that will change the DNA right back.
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 06:13 PM
Aug 2019
Because science: Christian TV Host Rick Wiles claims that meatless burgers are a Satanic plot meant to rewrite human DNA and create a “race of soulless creatures.”

Right Wing Watch reports that Wiles, host of TruNews, a television “news” program produced for conservative Christians, believes that “plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy products, is part of a satanic plot to alter human DNA so that people can no longer worship God.”

Appearing on his program earlier this week, Wiles said:

When you go to your favorite fast food restaurant, you are going to be eating a fake hamburger. You’re going to go to the grocery store and buy a pound of fake hamburger or a fake steak, and you won’t know that it was grown in some big corporation’s laboratory. This is the nightmare world that they are taking us into. They’re changing God’s creation. Why? Because they want to be God.

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2019/06/christian-tv-host-meatless-burgers-are-satanic-plot-to-create-race-of-soulless-creatures/


wyldwolf

(43,867 posts)
46. I DO know if you play a country song backwards...
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 08:48 PM
Aug 2019

you get your dog back, you get your truck back, and you sober up.

(I know, old joke)

Tarc

(10,476 posts)
49. Sounds pretty batshit, but no more than one who believes cancer & AIDS result from negative thoughts
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 10:33 PM
Aug 2019

or that vaccinations "Orwellian" and "too draconian." Yet there's a tiny chorus here who champion the latter speaker.

apcalc

(4,463 posts)
52. This reminds me of a song by David Allen Coe...what does a perfect country song need ...
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 10:54 PM
Aug 2019

ContWell, a friend of mine named Steve Goodman wrote that song
And he told me it was the perfect country & western song
I wrote him back a letter and I told him it was
Not the perfect country & western song because he hadn't said anything at all about mama,
Or trains,
Or trucks,
Or prison,
Or getting' drunk
Well he sat down and wrote another verse to the song
And he sent it to me,
And after reading it,
I realized that my friend had written the perfect
Country & western song
And I felt obliged to include it on this album
The last verse goes like this here:

Well, I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison
And I went to pick her up in the rain
But before I could get to the station in my pickup truck
She got run ned over by a damned old train

[Chorus:]
And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain
No, a' you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even call me
Well I wonder why you don't call me
Why don't you ever call me by my name
ains a recitation:

Ligyron

(7,624 posts)
55. OK, the funniest thread I've read on DU in quite awhile!
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 11:12 PM
Aug 2019

Contains some real gems down in the responses.

FreeState

(10,570 posts)
56. I learned similar at BYU (Ricks)
Thu Aug 1, 2019, 11:23 PM
Aug 2019

Certain beats apparently make you
susceptible to the dark side... but then again the Mormon church also believes your blood literally changes to the tribe of Abraham.

“There are two Comforters spoken of. One is the Holy Ghost, the same as given on the day of Pentecost, and that all Saints receive after faith, repentance, and baptism. This first Comforter or Holy Ghost has no other effect than pure intelligence. It is more powerful in expanding the mind, enlightening the understanding, and storing the intellect with present knowledge, of a man who is of the literal seed of Abraham, than one that is a Gentile, though it may not have half as much visible effect upon the body; for as the Holy Ghost falls upon one of the literal seed of Abraham, it is calm and serene; and his whole soul and body are only exercised by the pure spirit of intelligence; while the effect of the Holy Ghost upon a Gentile, is to purge out the old blood, and make him actually of the seed of Abraham. That man that has none of the blood of Abraham (naturally) must have a new creation by the Holy Ghost. In such a case, there may be more of a powerful effect upon the body, and visible to the eye, than upon an Israelite, while the Israelite at first might be far before the Gentile in pure intelligence.”

https://byustudies.byu.edu/history-of-the-church (Volume 3, pg 380.)

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