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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTiffany FitzHenry: Country Songs Contain Spells and Musical Scales '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 youve 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, its just a scale down. We dont 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. Were 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/
elocs
(22,566 posts)Initech
(100,060 posts)elocs
(22,566 posts)I grew up with classic rock and roll and still prefer it.
tblue37
(65,290 posts)underpants
(182,739 posts)The songs are more instructions to behavior and lifestyle than you could imagine. The Rockefellers sand Rothchilds part is full on nuts.
912gdm
(959 posts)woodsprite
(11,910 posts)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] "
blaze
(6,354 posts)Glad I went to the link so I could hear the difference in pitch.
Ilsa
(61,692 posts)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)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?
ChubbyStar
(3,191 posts)I just love this clip. Thanks!
underpants
(182,739 posts)I spent 2 hours last summer at a pool with this crap BLARING from the speakers. Its so incredibly pandering. Jeans beer pick up truck etc. and its yelled AT the listener like they are giving commands. After 2 hours I told my daughter we needed to go.
hatrack
(59,583 posts)Tried Y2Country or whatever the Sirius channel is.
ExciteBike66
(2,322 posts)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)I'm guessing that the booze has something to do with it!
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)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)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)Listen to this song. If youre impatient, you can forward to the three minute mark to hear the joke.
dflprincess
(28,075 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)woodsprite
(11,910 posts)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)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)The birth of NASCAR was moonshiners running whiskey.
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)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.
spanone
(135,816 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)....that cause me to instantly turn the station on the radio.
Any member of The Highwayman clearly excluded from this spell, obviously.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)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.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)OhZone
(3,212 posts)Now, I need some Joan Jett, All Time Low, Blink 182, and some Tegan and Sara.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)MuseRider
(34,104 posts)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.
fierywoman
(7,680 posts)MuseRider
(34,104 posts)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)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."
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,047 posts)You get your wife, truck, and dog back.
Yeah, old joke.
blogslut
(37,997 posts)Everyone knows a country song must contain the words:
mama
trains
trucks
prison
drunk
Ptah
(33,024 posts)3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)...cheatin' sweetheart. And being in jail.
TheBlackAdder
(28,182 posts)Response to Initech (Original post)
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gordianot
(15,237 posts)A large number of people in the United States supports the loon who provided that observation.
jcgoldie
(11,627 posts)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)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)OMFG!!!! She is full blown crazy! Seriously needs mental help....and good music theory class wouldn't hurt either!
tanyev
(42,542 posts)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. Youre going to go to the grocery store and buy a pound of fake hamburger or a fake steak, and you wont know that it was grown in some big corporations laboratory. This is the nightmare world that they are taking us into. Theyre changing Gods 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/
Initech
(100,060 posts)wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)you get your dog back, you get your truck back, and you sober up.
(I know, old joke)
Tarc
(10,476 posts)or that vaccinations "Orwellian" and "too draconian." Yet there's a tiny chorus here who champion the latter speaker.
apcalc
(4,463 posts)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:
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Ligyron
(7,624 posts)Contains some real gems down in the responses.
FreeState
(10,570 posts)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.)