Reversals in Music
Read this before listening: A note regarding reverse speech audio samples.
The embedded messages found in music are always fascinating. Often they mimic the tone and content of the song. Sometimes they reveal an attitude that is incongruent with the forward lyrics. On occasion the artist's mind is elsewhere (see Jimmy Hendrix below). Always they reflect the true state of awareness of the artist at the time of the recording.
Each clip will play the forward track once, and the reverse track three times at progressively slower speeds.
Jimmy Hendrix from the song "Red House"
- Forward:
- That's alright, I still got my guitar
- Reverse:
- Night before, think I'll go to Santa Rosa
Celine Dion from the song "Because You Loved Me"
- Forward:
- For all the joy you brought to my life
- Reverse:
- We are lovers but we close tomorrow
Celine Dion from the song "Because You Loved Me"
- Forward:
- My faith, you gave it back to me
- Reverse:
- You've got to be with him
Billy Joel from the song "Good Night My Angel"
- Forward:
- Be a part of me
- Reverse:
- People are funny
Billy Joel from the song "Good Night My Angel"
- Forward:
- Angel now it's time
- Reverse:
- Masks the one whose near
Cher from the song "Power"
- Forward:
- All right in just my mind
- Reverse:
- I'm searching the tarot
RA from the song "On My Side"
- Forward:
- The wind was on my side
- Reverse:
- I found myself
RA from the song "On My Side"
- Forward:
- And nothing will get to me
- Reverse:
- In was fate
RA from the song "On My Side"
- Forward:
- No one will want to have me
- Reverse:
- If I was small
Spice Girls from the song "Love Thing"
- Forward:
- I'm not that easy as a matter of fact
- Reverse:
- Was I easy? Have fun!
Mariah Carey from the song "All I Ever Wanted"
- Forward:
- And I love you so
- Reverse:
- Please love me
Mariah Carey from the song "All I Ever Wanted"
- Forward:
- All I ever wanted is you
- Reverse:
- Yes I am a woman now
Sting from the song "Roxanne"
- Forward:
- Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light. Those days are over. You don't have to sell your body to the night
- Reverse:
- Stay and loosen up my ass
Stevie Nicks "Landslide "
- Forward:
- Time makes bolder, children get older, I'm getting older too
- Reverse:
- It ain't my hurdle