Backmasking is Bullshit

Backmasking:
hiding messages in song lyrics that are heard when they are played backwards.

A friend of mine gave me a link today to this backmasking site. Its got a bunch of song clips from the Beatles, Brittney Spears, Eminem, Pink Floyd, etc. It shows you the forward lyrics, and you can listen to it forward, and below there's a "reverse play" button where you can hear the clip played backwards. It doesn't show you the "reverse lyrics" unless you click on the link of that title, which was a great idea, because when you listen to the song clips played backwards, you can't understand shit!

You cannot intentionally write lyrics that make sense forward, and include a different message when its played backward, its impossible. It gets even funnier when you click on the link to see the "backward lyrics", because when you listen to it again, there's always a tiny little resemblence in maybe one or two of the backward syllables, and the rest is all in your head if you actually believe it. There's even this Beatles song that has some backward-sounding lyrics when you play it normally, but even when you play it backwards, its just gibberish!

I'll admit that Britney Spears' "Hit Me Baby One More Time" has a quite audible one (yes Ron, I know you've talked about this before, but now I've actually heard it). The lyrics "...with you I loose my mind, give me a si...", sound almost exactly like, "sleep with me I'm not too young" when played backwards, but whats so strange about the lyrics: "When I'm with you I loose my mind, give me a sign"? Nothing! Its a coincidence, damnit! And even if its not, whats so surprising about it? We all know she's a whore.

Here's the site, prepare to be UN-AMAZED!