![]() The lyrics (as underlined below), demonstrate how music within the cult setting reinforces theĮxtreme personality worship that is part of Rawat's "teachings".ĭuring the late 1970's and early 1980's the Australian band "One Foundation" was the mainstay of Prem Rawat's festivals and DLM released quite a few audio tapes of their songs and some of their dance music is available on OneTube. ![]() Even a cursory examination of the "Court Of Love" tape by "the Holy Jesters" SLT 018 released in early 1982 by Elan Communications shows that Indian style devotion was being openly promoted in the organisations even as the renaming of Divine Light Mission as Elan Vital, was in progress. It especially shows the extent of the worship of and devotion to Rawat as a divine figure and exposes the current Élan Vital revisionist history that Rawat attempted to remove the beliefs in his divinity as well as the Indian trappings of Divine Light mission in the 1970's. It is an important indicator of beliefs in the group and it's evolution reveals much that is not available from examination of the group's other publicly available material. Music is an important tool for reinforcing emotion, and to a large extent both mirrors and sets the actual tone of Prem Rawat's followers' emotions. This role continued long after the organisation changed its name in the early 1980s. I hope you go, ‘Yeah, that’s happened to me’.From its creation in 1971, the Divine Light Mission had an important role for Prem Rawat's followers who are musicians. “They’re often about relationships, love lost, and love found. Within three-to-four minutes, I’m telling a mini-narrative that is an actual story with some drama to it. “When one of our songs does its job, you’ll relate,” Studnicky adds. In the end, The High Plains Drifters roll through your speakers with one purpose. Preceding the album, they closed out 2020 with the hilarious and hyper-charged renegade Christmas carol “Santa! Bring My Girlfriend Back!” In addition to widespread support from Amazon and Spotify, Harper’s Bazaar touted it among “16 Funny Christmas Songs That Will Add Some Cheer to This Dreadful Year” and Spotify’s Listrionics podcast heralded the tune as “one of the five best Xmas and holiday songs that were released” in 2020. Their new release ups the ante with a bevy of undeniably catchy anthems about love and loss that fall somewhere between The Eagles and New Order, with more surprises to come. The group, led by frontman Larry Studnicky, includes John Macom, Mike DoCampo, Kyle Cassel, Charles Czarnecki, and Dave Richards. Fast forward a few years and they boast one fan-favorite album-2019’s High Plains Drifters – and the critical acclaim of press and radio. The High Plains Drifters were sired after a night of too much booze and too little food at a Tex-Mex spot in the Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea. And he’s too embarrassed to admit to anyone that she’s gone.” ![]() There would be no brave face on this song’s narrator - he feels nothing but a crushing sense of loss and longing. “As I wrote the lyrics, I sought to capture that sense of devastation that comes from a huge heartbreak. Being dumped by her triggered this song’s lyrics and melody,” shared Studnicky. I was over the moon for her, so high that I could’ve been orbiting the sun, but she crashed me to earth in a fireball that burned my heart to a crisp. I was young, naive, and believed I had found my “one and only”. “”Since You’ve Been Gone” was written years ago from a place of great pain. His girl dumped him, broke his heart, and forever disabused him of that notion, but the pain inspired “Since You’ve Been Gone,” which captures the feeling of utter disbelief after your significant other leaves. The track, which tiptoes between neon synths, airy bass, and a glitchy beat, was inspired by a particularly painful breakup when frontman Larry Studnicky was still young enough to believe in the theory of the ‘one and only’. ![]() Directed by Lars Jørgen Sundnes Skaland, the visual depicts the story of a spaceman grasping for comfort as the memory of his love recedes into the vastness of outer (and inner) space. Genre-bending indie band The High Plains Drifters have released the lyric visualizer for “Since You’ve Been Gone” off their forthcoming second album about love and loss. ![]()
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