Look At Your Game, Girl

This week, with the creepy season of Halloween approaching, we’ll take a look at one of the creepier songs that I know that I found out about recently.

Look At Your Game Girl 

Upon first listen, you may not realize why I find this song to be creepy, because, in a way, it’s initially lovely. A solo singer with a decent voice accompanying an acoustic guitar. But what seems to be a harmless song takes a turn for the dark when you realize who is singing. The cult leader responsible for the orchestration of the killings of seven people. That’s right, Charles Manson!

He presumably sung songs like this to entice the woman that would end up becoming apart of his Manson Family. Deceptively entrancing, you think the song is an endeering call from Charles to a girl. In the song he explains how shes in a “delusion”, and he really capatalizes off of her insecurity and unsureness to make her believe that he has the right view of things. Its very ironic that he himself is playing a game with these women, and they became the victims of his crazy delusions.

Now, Charles didn’t kill anybody himself, rather he convinced a group of followers of his, who were dubbed the Manson family, comprised of somewhere around 100 people, to commit the murders themselves.

Manson was a musician. He was living in California during the 1960s as an unemployed ex-convict. He was a singer/songwriter trying to make it in Los Angeles, and he managed to build the small beginnings of his career by meeting The Beach Boys’ drummer Dennis Wilson, even managing to get a few of his songs recorded by The Beach Boys. His album “LIE” debuted on March 6th, 1970, the day the court vacated Manson from being his own lawyer after a few members of the Manson Family were caught in the killings of Sharon Tate and a few of her colleagues.

Charles Manson’s LIE: The Love and Terror Cult

Manson used to trip on LSD with his “followers”. He would perform music for them and rile them up with speeches filled with his theories about the state of the country and where it was heading to. He believed in what he dubbed “Helter Skelter” , based off of the Beatles song with the same name.

Helter Skelter

He believed this song was a song about the begginings of a country wide race-war between white and black people, where black americans would rise up against the police and their government. This was probably because of the racial tensions of the 60s. He was really a nutjob. He even thought of thought the White album by the Beatles was prophetic in other ways too, he thought that The White Album was a prophecy of what was going to happen in the 60s, like a timeline.

Another song from the album, “Piggies” is a song that was picked up by the counterculture movement but also especially by the Manson family when they murdered Sharon Tate.

The Beatles- Piggies

Well, when the those members of the Manson famiy murdered Sharon Tate and her four friends they decided to do something very disturbing with the victim’s blood, that is, they wrote in various walls of the house phrases that included the songs title in it. A few examples being “PIG“, “PIGGIES“, “POETIC PIGGIES“, and “DEATH TO PIGS“. George Harrsion, the writer of the song, probably had no idea how his song would be interpreted.

George Harrison of The Beatles

Although these are all good songss, having a connection to a vast number of youths of the counterculture revolution of the 60s, they unfortunatley have a very dark history and connection to the maniac Manson.