Crimes That Were Inspired by Songs 

just wanna clarify i dont think music is entirely responsible for these crimes. obv u gotta be crazy in the first place to do any of this, just interesting how ppl have connected music to these crimes!

If you’re catching bodies because “music motivated you to” I don’t think it was musics fault, I think you’re just messed up mentally.

"your honor, my client is innocent as he did not commit the crimes, it was the song that inspired him to do it"

The Linkin Park story shocked me because I'm a huge fan but I didn't expect anyone to do a crime especially as severe as Charles. Papercut and In The End is a song I relate to a lot and I wouldn't want to hurt anyone.

I can confirm you are tripping about the meaning of "bodies". I knew Dave from the DFW music scene and I remember when they wrote bodies. It was a mosh song meant to get the crowd pumped. Clubs like the gypsy tea room and trees were his inspiration for the lyrics; rowdy. He was all heart and a good spirit.

Of course "Bodies" is misinterpred. Only few people realise that this song is actually "It's rainning man" by Weather Girls from different point of wiev.

‘Look at your game’ is a Manson song he tried to give to Neil Diamond but was rejected. It’s a really good tune but when I discovered it was Manson it felt weird to revisit. It’s also in ‘once upon a time in Hollywood’

There’s one I’d like to add that I didn’t see in the time stamps. The one that comes to my mind most is Israel’s Son by Silverchair inspiring 2 teens to commit a triple murder back in the 90’s. The lead singer of Silverchair named Daniel Johns was very upset about the idea of one of his songs being a huge inspiration for the murder. It includes lyrics like “Hate is what I feel for you, I want you to know that I want you dead”. To these teens, they took the lyrics too seriously. EDIT: I forgot to mention that all the members from Silverchair were 15-16 years old when the murders happened. They seemed to have a rough time dealing with it from interviews I read.

“Next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge it was MY fault, and I’ll get sued” - Eminem, Sing for the Moment

Another one was the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Seung-Hui Cho had the lyrics to the Candlebox song Shine written on the walls of his dorm room and his roommates heard him play the song on repeat over twenty times before the massacre. I think that it's further proof these kinds of things are all in the minds of the killers, that song is positive to a corny degree and sounds so wholesome and harmless that it's still regularly played in supermarkets. The chorus is "Whoa-ho-ah-ho, heaven let your light shine down." and he took it as an anthem for murder. Can't blame Candlebox for that...

Very glad that you decided to speak about how some types of music can influence certain thoughts. I feel like the consensus people have nowadays is either they act like music is the root cause of every societal ill, or people act like no one has ever been influenced to do anything ever because of the music they listen to. Neither of those viewpoints is reasonable, and I’m glad that you’re leveling the playing field.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the murder of Elyse Pahler. It's a very brutal story and probably deserves its own video. The guys who did it happened to listen to Slayer a lot and wanted to do a sacrifice for their own metal band to be successful (plot twist: it wasn't). The victim's parents tried to sue Slayer for influencing the killers and of course it didn't go anywhere -- Slayer was not found liable. The guys all got life sentences after one of them converted to Christianity, confessed, and revealed where her body was. She was only 15. Breaks my heart.

Just read that another motive for Charles Williams was also possible sexual molestation. Long after his arrest and trial, he mentioned being molested by an older man who hung around him and his skating group. In 2011, that man, Chris Reynolds, was sentenced to 40 years for sexually abusing multiple adolescent boys. Of course, not saying this justifies any shooting (in case anyone jumps to that), just that it is a crucial part to understanding where his anger likely emanated from as well as how trauma can greatly change how we perceive things that give us an emotional outlet (i.e. music and art).

I always fw your content. It’s not the same cookie cutter music content. These are more interesting and unique topics. Keep up the goated work👍🏿

Pekka-Eric Auvinen, a school shooter from Finland, made a threat video to his school with KMFDM - Stray Bullet playing background. He killed 9 (including himself) and injured 12. Many people later told that the song was more about premature ejaculation than shooting with guns. 😅

That Chief Keef kid is honestly just sad, just an ignorant kid playing grown up thinking that it was cool to kill and was saying he loved o'block but was from Oklahoma?? The internet can really twist kids minds for the better or the worst. Parents rlly should be getting themselves involved though if his mom knew he and his friends were "wanna be gangsters" she should have sat him down and talked about the reality he actually lives in and how blessed/lucky he is to NOT be in the position of the people who actually live in Parkway Gardens and other projects where violence is a daily occurrence..

Dude, it's kinda insane to see how far you've come. Basically every vid you've made released has over 100k views, shit is awesome to see man, happy to see all this fucking growth.

I remember Bodies by Drowning Pool came on my Pandora the day after the Eagles of Death Metal concert mass shooting. After reading everything the victims were saying, listening to that song just gave me a pit in my stomach. I still love the song but damn

It's a very little known fact that the Gordon Lightfoot hit "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" inspired a rogue freighter captain to deliberately scuttle a vessel by the same name, killing all 29 crew members aboard

I have a video idea. What if you did a video about "The First". Like for example: 'The first hip hop artist to receive a Grammy' or 'the first artist to be in a major film.' you can do a series of it or you can just shotgun it and have a list of first in any music.

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Gotta love to see "Bodies" being mentioned, the most perfect metal song, RIP Dave Williams, but yeah i agree with the statement, like how would they think lets write a theme for murderers, like the bridge most definately depicts moshing, like it seems like your are agreeing with the media that drowining pool made it about murder

To me, the strangest thing about the Charles Williams case is that the list of songs that influenced him did not include Numb.

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I can think of one crime inspiring a song... The Boomtown Rats hit, 'I Don't Like Mondays' was about the Grover Cleveland Elementary School shooting on 29 January, 1979, by Brenda Spencer. When asked by a reporter, why she would commit such a crime, Spencer replied, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day".

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Bodies by Drowning Pool was the anthem for early Runescape PKing videos too!

The defense be like: "If the song hits, you must acquit."

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I find that strange with the whole violent music makes you angry as ive read many studys on how the more extreme heavy metal genres actually calm you down as the music is so aggresive it helps you relieve your anger as the music helps you actually express and vent these feelings and majority of the lyrics are violent for sure lol. And some studys have actually found people that listen to heavy metal to be some of the most happy go lucky people getting around

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As a kid, I was absolutely fancinated by the whole Manson saga. I was very young during the Satanic Panic, so I think I was just shocked that people could keep claiming music made them do bad things.

I know this video is kind of "old" at 2mo, but I wanted to say that I think the topics u select are fascinating--esp the musicians who disappeared one. Keep it up!

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Yo the James Edwards story is crazy because my teacher told us about and how that was his little cousin who shot the cricket/baseball player. He told my class that he shot him because his friends that were in the car said that he was scared to shoot someone.

I cant wait to watch this video is cool af. Music so amaizng

Good video second one was sad. Good video

When you think about it, because the Guns n Roses was about Axl Rose's dog, makes the song even more depressing.

lets not forget about the countless NY grocery and corner stores that were tragically robbed on the day of the OTIS premier on Hot 97 July 20, 2011

Get Jiggy With It is gonna be hard to explain in court

Tormentor of Christian Souls by Dimmu Borgir is a fantastic metal song. And maybe not the best Christian, I am one. The argument that heavy music causes violent behavior is the same as pokemon are the devil or GTA makes people commit crimes.

Very interesting video

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Man that’s a A.I. rendering 😂 @13:20

Bruh in the end sound dark asf when it's just spoken😂

if you ever did a part 2 of this, i'd love to see the case of Joseph Edward Gallegos and him allegedly killing his friends while motivated by "Locc 2 Da Brain" by Brotha Lynch Hung

Keep these vids up man i love them and they seem to be getting lots of views

i misread justin barber for justin bieber 😂 i was like “what killer was influenced by justin bieber ??” 🤣🤦🏾‍♀️

13:43 this sentence tells you a whole lot about America and their gun laws

That’s crazy how songs was strangers

Keep these type of videos coming

Manson was such a a little stupid little goofy little guy, blackbird was about the civil rights movement and Paul McCartney's support of it and helter skelter was literally about a roller coaster 💀

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I feel like the music itself isn’t to blame when awful things happen and the person and/or people that are responsible for the action(s) that took place say they were inspired to do so by a certain song or songs because different people could take the lyrics of a song and it makes them think or feel differently from how the song was originally meant. I think that with the James Edwards case, scientifically, the rational part of the teen brain is not yet fully developed, so it makes sense that they would be quick to sometimes make irrational decisions. I feel like maybe if there had been a responsible adult present, that never would’ve escalated into an actual murder taking place. I also think that perhaps James and his friends were a bad influence on each other; maybe it was Chancey’s idea and he kind of peer pressured Michael and James into thinking it was all fun and games. I found this video to be very interesting! 🤔

Look at your game girl is my favorite from Manson :))

Linkin Park had the best response to the tragedies

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Do you use the music from death note as background music?

Have you ever noticed that he just straight up has a katana in his bedroom, it’s not that weird but it’s just something interesting I just noticed

You know rap now inspires crimes as well

If there's a crime based on Tyler, The Creator's Tron Cat, WE ARE DOOMED💀

I just knew the guy who killed the cop in Texas who said they were influenced by Tupacs violence song makes the list.

the subtle dethnote music in the backround had me thinking death note was playing inna diffrent tab lmaoooooo

Rip to all the victims

Bro forgot the Ja Morant Youngboy incident

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The theme song for the Zombie Apocalypse is 'Hunting Humans' by Misfits.

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Charles Manson was MK Ultras last test subject 👀

Idk why but I died laughing at the fact that James edwards tweets chief keef lyrics and is from fucking Oklahoma 💀

Future inspired me to try Percocet 🙏🏽💯

Wow I am a huge linkin park fan but never knew that dammmmm

I think there was a crazy murder involving Necros music back in the day too

Surprised you didnt mention the several crimes and murders commited by mental ICP fans and Juggalos. As an ICP fan with no interest in committing crimes, it's a fascinating and equally upsetting situation, especially considering that, because of the crimes, Juggalos as a whole were labeled as an official Gang by the FBI.

Why did he dress as Neo, when he looks like Morpheus?! xD

The ad before this video was a really old school hip-hop song and the lyrics (a positive message about peace and togetherness, in spite of the election, riots and etc.) were scrolling like movie credits and there was a looping gif of a weird looking white-faced monkey/ape-monster thing looking very disgruntled in the background and that's why RU-vid said no to ad-block.

Considering how much Mason’s story has been told and retold. I think you should’ve chosen a lesser known case or added an extra case.

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Nah that last one is skinny Pete ☠️

In a few years I think we sill start seeing influencer inspired crimes. Like physical crimes like murder.

Every Youngboy Never Broke Again song 😂

Ok i haven't watched the first matrix or really any of them in a while but when tf did neo have or use a shotgun? M16s, mp5s, micro uzis, barettas and scorpions but no shotguns.

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I don't believe just because some media is violent it makes people more violent it's a common myth thrown particularly at violent games and music Manson blamed the Beatles probably one of the most commercial bands ever who was reasonably clean cut.

the song “Israel’s Son” by the band Silverchair supposedly inspired two teens to kill somebody

I heard a few cases blaming metallica...

Meanwhile Cannibal Corpse "It is in my nature to murder, if I stop I know I will die"

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Can't blame chief keef

The Beatles bing Crosby is my generation