History Main / MindControlMusic

* ''Film/JosieAndThePussycats'': Features a plot to build subliminal messages into the music of manufactured pop bands.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'', a rock band allied with the mob uses this.
* On [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/monkeys/1244_4_152.jpg the cover of issue #152]] of ''ComicBook/HouseOfMystery'', an organ grinder's music causes people to give his monkey money.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Spidey infamously once fought the disco-themed Hypno-Hustler, often held up as one of the goofiest villains ever.

* In ''ComicBook/BillyBatsonAndTheMagicOfShazam'', a villain named Axe has a guitar that can hypnotize people. He gets a whole crowd of adults and [[{{Sidekick}} Mary]] under his spell, forcing [[KidHero Billy]], who temporarily has to avoid [[HenshinHero turning into]] [[SuperPoweredAlterEgo Captain Marvel]], to figure out how to stop him alone.
* In the Eros Comix ''Literature/DominoLady'' miniseries, the villains learn that the flute the natives use to control the dinosaurs can also be used to control the natives, and use it to take control of the tribe and set themselves up as kings.
* In ''ComicBook/ArakSonOfThunder'', Satyricus can use his pan flute to elicit emotions in his listeners that vary from lust to terror.
* In one story of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'', the titular hero is rummaging through the various old treasures found within the skull cave and comes across a small flute. Out of plain curiosity, he starts playing it only for him to after a while hears people shouting behind him causing him to turn around and realize that all of the children from a nearby outdoor school are following him. Some quick research later he finds that the flute is the very same as the one that belonged to ''Literature/ThePiedPiperOfHamelin''. The rest of the story then shifts to the past telling the story of how the flute came into the family's possession and all the mind-controlling chaos the flute caused.

* In ''Literature/TheMermaidSummer'', the mermaid's song can control anyone into doing anything. She punishes Eric for his skepticism by [[ScepticismFailure forcing him to crash his fishing boat, almost drowning him and his crew]]. Later, when Anna won't give the mermaid her comb, she forces Anna to walk to the shore and almost drown herself as a threat. [[spoiler:In the end, she uses her voice to make Eric come home to his family.]]

* ''Literature/{{Coda}}'' has this with the Corp's music being equivalent to a drug. It can control what you see, think, and feel, and can even [[spoiler: kill you]].