Have you ever heard music backwards? What do you think happens? In today's article we want to talk to you about what, in the 60s, became a fad.
In 1969, Beatles fans had the strong conviction that one of their leaders, Paul McCartney was dead and this fact was being hidden from public opinion.
The evidence supporting that belief was the "mysterious messages" that were hidden in the lyrics of his songs when they were heard backwards.
In the song "Revolution 9" you hear the phrase "excite me, dead man" in English when the audio is played in reverse.That is one of the messages that made believe that McCartney was dead.But even if all these statements have been categorically denied, we can still find videos on YouTube with Beatles songs played backwards.Have you heard any? If you do, you will realize that these messages are clearly there, another thing is that they mean what they say they mean.
Then, if we listen to those messages when we hear the music backwards, how can be a whole dwarf? The answer lies in our brain and its intense love for language.
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Backwards music beyond the Beatles
Although the fashion of listening to the music in reverse began with the Beatles, this "discovery" was soon taken to other artists looking for messages in their songs.Led Zeppelin, Styx or even Queen were subjected to the "experiment".
In the decade of the 80s there really was a great boom with this type of practice and a kind of public obsession was created to find hidden messages , and even Satanic, in pop songs.
An example of this type of reverse music that is supposed to contain messages is Queen's famous “Another One Bites the Dust.” We invite you to watch the next video played backwards.If you are not very familiar or with what you are supposed to hear in this music upside down, you will surely not hear anything strange.
Queen's fans believe that what is heard is" Marijuana smoking is fun."Have you heard the video? Now that you know what Queen fans think they understand by listening to the reverse music, do you hear the same? Are you able to detect it?
So what happens when you listen to music backwards?
If these messages don't really exist as such, why do we listen to them so clearly? As we said, the answer is in our brain.It processes speech in a totally unique way "from top to bottom", this is the description given in a 2006 study.The speech is not only heard as sound, but the brain first of all classifies it in a special way; the speech protocol is activated, in this noise there is information! Then he uses some context and information keys that are known to him to be able to decipher what he says what he is listening to.
If we take Queen's video as an example, we realize that when we discover what is supposed to be that is heard when listening to the music backwards, your brain prepares to listen to all that previously unintelligible noise.The next time you have heard it, with all that new information, your brain is already able to interpret the noises in a totally new way and as a result, you hear the message loud and clear.Incredible, right?
In 1981 an experiment was carried out in this field.A group of volunteers were asked to listen sound clips of the type "sine wave speech" and then describe what they had heard.Most of the volunteers in the e They said they had heard things like “science fiction sounds” or “animal cries.” It is important to say that this group was not given any previous information.
Another group in the experiment was told that they would hear "a sentence produced by a computer" and were asked to transcribe that sentence in the clearest way Possible.Up to two-thirds of the volunteers managed to write some correct words and one-third correctly transcribed the entire sentence.
The last participating group was told exactly what the sentence they were going to hear was and they were only asked to affirm if they were able to hear and understand it.The vast majority said they had heard it.
All this demonstrates how our brain is connected to language.In our millions of years of evolution, our brain developed so that values the sound of speech over all other sounds, even above noises that could kill him such as the roar of a lion or the noise of a landslide that could bury you in a matter of seconds.
Nu estrus brain, when put into "talk" mode, searches for connections with language automatically.That makes us even able to "imagine" that we hear coherent phrases where they are not.
What do you think about the music upside down? Have you ever done the test? Tell us your experience!
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