Devout Christian and former boy band pop star Shane Lynch of the Irish group Boyzone accused Taylor Swift of performing “demonic rituals” during her concerts.
The 47-year-old father of two daughters shared that he doesn’t stop his daughters from listening to music, because they have to learn for themselves, but said he “explains to them that music is dangerous.”
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Lynch said his revelations are derived from what he witnessed throughout his successful years in the music industry—Boyzone racked up six U.K. No. 1 singles and nine No. 1 singles in Ireland.
While he didn’t name only Swift, Lynch told Ireland’s Sunday World, “I think when you’re looking at a lot of the artists out there, a lot of their stage shows are satanic rituals live in front of 20,000 people without them realizing and recognizing.”
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“You’ll see a lot of hoods up and masks on and fire ceremonies,” he added. “Even down to Taylor Swift—one of the biggest artists in the world—you watch one of her shows and she has two or three different demonic rituals to do with the pentagrams on the ground, to do with all sorts of stuff on her stage.”
Lynch, who before becoming a Christian used to use ouija boards, said that, unfortunately, to “a lot of people it’s just art and that’s how people are seeing it.”
“During my worst periods, I became involved with clairvoyants and ouija boards, so I used to get demonic visitations. The demons would circle around my head and this would mean I would say many things out of anger and spite,” Lynch shared with the Gazette & Herald in 2005. “Then in desperation, I said, ‘In the name of Jesus, I want you to leave.’ I was shown the power of what God can do for you.”
