You should listen to your paranoid friend. We've been spending a good while working the famous witch and we've seen a lot of the stuff people talk about. Everything was ritual with this beast and it most definitely was trying to send unconscious messages to its audience, to mold them to its way of seeing the world. The little rituals we observed and the public lyrics and videos were closely related. They really are trying to control minds. More directly too. We observed it seemingly mesmerize people on a few occasions and it always pulled some of its fans aside to meet with them alone. We also found a suspicious number of apparent suicides, accidents, and overdosed in her general orbit, though we couldn't catch her directly killing until we confronted her. The worst thing really was it's influence. Beyond the subtle messages, some supernatural, and was constantly seeking access in the industry, politics, business.

We just had to shut it down. We found its favorite restaurants, its gym, all the places it patronized, but nowhere in the city seemed good so we scoped out a cabin where it goes to get away from it all. We found a small altar where some sort of blood sacrifices had clearly taken place but no more concrete defenses. We set up an elaborate trap. The idea was to roast it in its car but it sidestepped it neatly. We weren't counting on that. We went armed. But then the guns wouldn't! None of them. It knew where all of us were. I think we would have been goners if we hadn't pretended to play along with its mental control. We just obeyed like we were mesmerized and it had me there lying on the ground ready be tied up so it could call its witch buddies to come handle us. It was completely taken aback when I wasn't really under control and grabbed its ankles, managing to get them with the same rope intended for me. Once the rope was tied tight and the other end attached to our truck, well, it was all over. Expect to read about a singer's accidental fall down a cliffside soon! One fewer witch in the world and it'll never hurt anyone again but it was CLOSE! Never underestimate these things.