Music played an important role in the cult of my youth (known as the Children of God or The Family). It was very effectively used for recruitment, it was a mainstay of fundraising (since members weren't allowed to get regular jobs), and it was a source of shared culture. But on the inside, they banned… Continue reading Persecution Music of the Children of God: The Songs of the Gaslighters & the Counter-Resistance ππ»
Month: February 2022
20 Years Later, Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” is a Personal Anthem ofβ¦ Defiance? βπ»
"Is she the flavor of the week?" The question caught me off guard. I was 17 and I'd just shared Vanessa Carlton's song A Thousand Miles with a musician dude who was a few years older than me and who was visiting the sort-of halfway home for ex-cult young adults I lived in at the… Continue reading 20 Years Later, Vanessa Carlton’s “A Thousand Miles” is a Personal Anthem ofβ¦ Defiance? βπ»