Backmasking: Rock Music and Messages
Backmasking: Between the devil and the media
Are you aware of the music nowadays? How does the band affect the lives of young people today? Well, different bands and songs had already flourished in the world. They had grown into new ideas and captured the hearts of the people, especially the teenagers. They sometimes play songs for dancing, singing, recreation or listening. People use them to express feelings and ideas and also a way for them to relax. It is an unavoidable element in everyone’s life. It has always been a part of every culture, big or small. Music is often a major part of a teenager's separate world. Most of the young people enjoy listening songs without even recognizing its lyrics as long as they were pleased with its catchy tunes. Music is not usually a danger for teenagers, unless they are not preoccupied with music that has seriously destructive themes like taking alcohol, presenting suicide or getting abused with drugs. It is easy for us to check on songs that contain good and clean messages by just analyzing its lyrics. However, for many years, there have been rumors that certain songs, speeches, and ads contain hidden messages that can only be heard when played backwards. Some people believed that most of the bands corrupt young people by burying subliminal messages in music. This process is known as backmasking and there is much debate about its existence.
Backmasking is a way of reversing an audio that is meant to be played forwards. When the music is played normally, one hears a passage that sounds like gibberish, unclearly word-like, as if it is in another language. However, when it is played backwards, sometimes clear understandable phrase or sentence is heard wherein the original message was revealed. They ran reel-to-reel tape recorders backwards, but then, digital audio recording has greatly simplified the process. It had first appeared in the late 1960s as a result of an accidental tape mixing error by John Lennon in the
Are you aware of the music nowadays? How does the band affect the lives of young people today? Well, different bands and songs had already flourished in the world. They had grown into new ideas and captured the hearts of the people, especially the teenagers. They sometimes play songs for dancing, singing, recreation or listening. People use them to express feelings and ideas and also a way for them to relax. It is an unavoidable element in everyone’s life. It has always been a part of every culture, big or small. Music is often a major part of a teenager's separate world. Most of the young people enjoy listening songs without even recognizing its lyrics as long as they were pleased with its catchy tunes. Music is not usually a danger for teenagers, unless they are not preoccupied with music that has seriously destructive themes like taking alcohol, presenting suicide or getting abused with drugs. It is easy for us to check on songs that contain good and clean messages by just analyzing its lyrics. However, for many years, there have been rumors that certain songs, speeches, and ads contain hidden messages that can only be heard when played backwards. Some people believed that most of the bands corrupt young people by burying subliminal messages in music. This process is known as backmasking and there is much debate about its existence.
Backmasking is a way of reversing an audio that is meant to be played forwards. When the music is played normally, one hears a passage that sounds like gibberish, unclearly word-like, as if it is in another language. However, when it is played backwards, sometimes clear understandable phrase or sentence is heard wherein the original message was revealed. They ran reel-to-reel tape recorders backwards, but then, digital audio recording has greatly simplified the process. It had first appeared in the late 1960s as a result of an accidental tape mixing error by John Lennon in the