More Ats season five thoughts: Lorne

Lorne is always described as an empath demon. What's not clear to me is whether his empathy is a condition unique only to himself or a characteristic of his demon race. Okay. Lorne is able to read information about people's lives/destinies/etc when they sing (He also seems, sometimes, to discern information about people when they're not singing, but that could be a function of his effectiveness as a counselor rather than his empathic abilities. We all remember that very special episode of TNG, right?). Music does not exist in Pylea. I wonder if it was actively banned by the Roby-Hoody guys that are running the show until Cordy becomes Princess. It would be awful hard to rule a race of people with psychic powers. I have no degree in anthropology, but I will make the sweeping statement that a culture of sentient beings which have no music whatsoever (especially when they have dancing) seems almost impossible. When Lorne does sing in Pylea, it hurts his fellow Pyleans. Is this because it takes some adjusting to be able to handle the psychic barrage that results? Or is it because Lorne is deliberately dumping psychic baggage in a painful way?

(Of course, there's probably a throwaway line in an ep somewhere that I've missed that answers this question definitively)