{"id":24513,"date":"2023-09-08T20:18:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T03:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=24513"},"modified":"2024-11-09T04:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-09T12:25:56","slug":"music-fans-rushing-back-to-church-after-watching-demonic-rap-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/music-fans-rushing-back-to-church-after-watching-demonic-rap-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Fans Rushing Back to Church After Watching Demonic Rap Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young fans of rapper Doja Cat are flocking to church after watching her disturbing new \u201cDemons\u201d music video.<\/p>\n<p>Dressed as a demon, the 27-year-old singer joins others in the industry like Sam Smith and Lil Nas X, in a music video praised by critics but rejected by man Gen Z fans who say it\u2019s gone too far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Doja Cat\u2019s latest demonic song inadvertently caused millions of people to consider going back to church and beginning to pray again,\u201d Christian rapper Ruslan said in a YouTube video.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top comments on Doja Cat\u2019s music video \u2014 released last week and has over 8 million views \u2014 is, \u201cThanks Doja to making me wanna go to church everyday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks Doja for reminding me to definitely read my Bible and go to church,\u201d one user commented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoja got me going to church daily now,\u201d another said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoing straight into a gospel playlist right after here,\u201d someone else added.<\/p>\n<p>The artist, whose real name is Amala Zandile Dlamini, started alluding to the dark theme in March when she changed her profile picture on TikTok of her dressed as a demon and started posting stills from the music video on her\u00a0<strong>Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of fans shared their concerns for her in the comments and said her content was pushing them to seek Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t need to see the music video for yourself to know it\u2019s intentionally disturbing by paying homage to horror films like \u201cThe Shining\u201d and \u201cPoltergeist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toddstarnes.com\/opinion\/music-fans-rushing-back-to-church-after-watching-demonic-rap-song\/\">toddstarnes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young fans of rapper Doja Cat are flocking to church after watching her disturbing new \u201cDemons\u201d music video. Dressed as a demon, the 27-year-old singer joins others in the industry like Sam Smith and Lil Nas X, in a music video praised by critics but rejected by man Gen Z fans who say it\u2019s gone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/music-fans-rushing-back-to-church-after-watching-demonic-rap-song\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Music Fans Rushing Back to Church After Watching Demonic Rap Song<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/warning-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6nn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25342,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24513\/revisions\/25342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}