Of course it does. What you say makes not even sense in theory and neither in practise because I've already done it exactly this way.
You can just experiment yourself. Say a several short words or phrases and pause after each... then reverse that, and see if anything in what you recorded sounds close to English when played backwards. If so, then you have something to work with. Some back-masking that I've heard.. I don't know if the artist did it intentionally, or if it was by fluke... but some of the stuff sounds a little slurred or mispronounced (for lack of a better explanation) when played in one direction. If they were intentionally back-masking (vs. some listener just hearing what they want to hear), I'd say it was done that way to get it to sound closer to English when played in both directions. I don't think there's any big secret to it, but rather a lot of experimentation, I'd guess... finding words that sound close to something else when played backwards.
Many years ago the concept of "Backmasking" (satanic message playing the song in reverse) was taken seriously: in the past many rock singers were accused of inserting subliminal messages into their songs. These "exhortations to disobey" were unconsciously perceived -so they said-, at that point the listener was urged to perform "antisocial" acts It was even said that the subliminal message, when combined with the use of strobe light, was amplified: at that point the barriers of moral judgment collapsed and the listener was ready for any kind of wickedness. here a video of a young man debunking the myth of reverse speech in rock Last edited by a moderator: May 6, 2021
Because the human brain will find patterns where there aren't any. In a similar ilk, and predating the satanic panic, people were finding "hidden messages" all over The Beatles tunes by playing them backwards, including the famous "Turn me on, dead man" in Revolution No. 9. Here's a selection which proves irrevocably that Paul died in 1966 and was replaced by a double, honest: Last edited: May 6, 2021
a song lyrics made only of palindromes: brilliant! Do it now Start like this: ..Madam, I'm Adam.. Last edited by a moderator: May 6, 2021
It's actually an old consolidated business: Reverse Speech pretty an art of its own. Uh yes, Paul is dead conspiracy. So, do we know his real name now? Honestly, I don't care. Great artist even if double.
Light years ahead my head exploded this is Art Update: I downloaded and reversed this song, to test if the palindromes are also understandable in reverse. This is the result: well... Last edited by a moderator: May 7, 2021
This is how the trick came about: When pop music was in its infancy (and it still is dominated by infants, frankly) you had this quartet of fine young men from Liverpool who liked to call themselves "Beetles", misspelled however as "Beatles" and pronounced as the German word for "dicks" (= "Piedels"). Anyway these guys had never heard of coffee and tobacco so they slobbered gin and smoked pot. But all the while they recorded and played guitars, as well. So one hapful day one of them loaded a tape onto a multitracker while another one would sit at the ready with a serious guitar on his knee, to add an extra touch to a previously recorded tune by way of a "solo overdub". All said and done when the tape was ready and replayed a few times they all began to wonder what had happened to the guitar solo. It sounded all backwards! An expert engineer was called in who after a few hours determined that they must have fed the tape "tail first" onto the tracking machine! Those Beetles had been stoned out of their wits, experimenting with a new arrangment. So, long story short, they decided to hide their justified embarrassment and tried to cover up their goof by adding spoken word and some singing to unfinished projects, intentionally loading the tapes up the wrong way, tail first, onto the recorders. They had such a huge following no-one dared criticize the finished record which therefore went to #1 a week before it was released. So this is the story of the "Summer of 1967" song-creation style some still aptly refer to as "rather backward". [EDIT:] P.S.: In older pictures of the band performing you may even spot the bass player holding his axe quite the wrong way around. Anything for a giggle of course. Last edited: May 8, 2021
Exactly, I think it is really a tedious work, but there is no way out unless someone comes up with a specialized app that has a lookup translation library, but even in that case it would take a lot of time to get a full meaning, proper sentence in both directions. I must admit that the above "Gratitude" is really an impressive effort, unless it's just luck... "Fight Club" stinger was a clearly intentional visible "artifact", not what intended originally. However, subliminals turned out to be uneffective, and same for the claimed psych effect of reverse speech (backmasking), despite the urban legends heard about it (suicides, killings - actually unrelated - after listening to "satanic" records). Still, a wonderful marketing campaign.
