Shane Lynch accuses pop stars of performing ‘live witchcraft' on stage to children
Taylor Swift performing on stage at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin (Liam McBurney/PA)
Boyzone star Shane Lynch has accused pop stars like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift of performing 'live witchcraft' when performing on stage.
The Dubliner, who has previously opened up about the role of 'demonic' Satanism in the music industry, feels the pop world is 'dark' in terms of spiritualism.
He also believes figures like P Diddy, who is currently on trial in the US over an alleged sex trafficking operation, convinced a generation of young people that material objects are what matter most in the world.
In a lengthy YouTube interview with Liam Tuffs, the singer criticised the music industry for allowing 'undertones of sexuality' to be displayed in front of children.
"The spiritual side of the industry is dark,' he explained.
Taylor Swift performing on stage at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin (Liam McBurney/PA)
"Pop music is about taking characters into a darker world. Not only for the artist themselves but the followers, the people, who are listening to those songs.
"The music industry going on today, I find it very difficult for kids. We had a great innocence with Boyzone; pencil cases, rubbers, rulers, and nice music.
"There was no undertone of sexuality or violence or anything. It's lovely music.
"But then you go to the other side with your Beyoncés and your Taylor Swifts and all that, but it's right in front of you. You're looking at people doing live witchcraft on stage; live spiritual performances on stage. Live demonic performances on stage to all of our children.
"It's just a pentagon on the ground, what's the problem? They're doing live stuff in front of us; it's a big problem but we're just going 'ah it's a performance isn't it?"
Shane continued and stated his belief that withcraft 'comes demonically from the top' from powerful figures in the industry.
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The 48-year-old says that while pop artists don't start off looking to perform witchcraft, they end up being pressured into the practice.
"They didn't decide to be straight out the box, devil horns and craziness,' he continued. 'They were brought into this more and more because it sells and they want to make sales.
"You sell your soul to the devil and a lot of them talk about it but it's generally witchcraft.
"They get into witchcraft and once you're inside that kind of witchcraft scenario, it's hard to come back. I was there and that's the only reason. I can really talk about it because the dark times I was talking about is when I was into witchcraft.
"I was into all the dark stuff that all of the industry was in. From 1997 to 1999, I got darker and darker into spritualism stuff and the dark nature of the industry. That's how I know it's real.
"I was just talking off the cuff having not experienced it, fair enough but I was deeply involved in witchcraft in those days."
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Shane has previously spoken about how he became a born-again Christian after going off the rails during Boyzone's success.
He became a Christian in 2003 after being been involved with clairvoyants and ouija boards.
Shane has also spoken about being visited by demonic forces as a young man
However, he was was persuaded to convert to Christianity by close friend Ben Ofoedu, who was his colleague in the band REDhill which Lynch joined after Boyzone.
In a previous interview in 2023, he told Premier Christian Radio: 'We have the Holy Spirit that guides us and protects us in the name of Christ, but the demonic side of the music industry is very real too.
"That's how I came to God; through understanding the demonic side.'
Speaking earlier this year, Shane became emotional declared that Boyzone will 'never be a band again' as he admitted crying while watch the new documentary about their time together.
'I don't think we'll never make music again,' the 48-year-old said. 'It's not our territory as a world.'
The Sky Documentaries programme Boyzone: No Matter What was released earlier this year.
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