Subliminal Messages In Songs

Hello all. I'm very curious about something. When a song is played in reverse, (in certain songs) does a singer/rapper really incorporate subliminal messages? Or does it just sound like something is being said. For instance in Rihanna's song Disturbia when played in reverse, some argue that it sounds like she is saying " please release me, I'm dying in here". Others say that she says "let me go" WTF? Also Led Zeppelin's song stairway to heaven, supposedly he's sending satanic messages as well. And in one of Tupac's songs he's telling people that he is alive. Well...It really sounds like he says that, but then again I am not to sure. Do you think people read into it more than they should? Or do they really send us messages in music to play with our minds?

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As someone that loves music I have to wonder sometimes of all this myself. Yes I have listen to Stairway to heaven. Myself? Nothing was there other than a bad beat. Now I do know for a fact though that when your in alot of stores the music that you hear playing will have something hidden in it telling you to buy this or buy that. As for Rihanna, and Tupac? No, and I will tell you why. For the lovely Miss Rihanna, She is on top of the charts with anything she does. Yes people will read into it, and think what they want or hear what they want. As for Tupac, much the same way. he had a lot of big time fans, and with him being gunned down the way he was. again people will hear what they wanna hear. It is the same with say Evis. After he died everyone was playing his music backwards, or at double speed just trying to hear that he was not dead or it was all a joke.
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Interesting....

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This is what I'd call a very old set of urban legends

Queen - another one bites the dust - played backwards says "I wanna smoke mari...na", some songs by the Doors; even songs in Spanish like Jose Jose's "Volcan" and many others. I think people just looks for hidden meanings for fun and there's nothing there. But there are also songs that really have a hidden backwards message on purpose, there's one by Gloria Trevi, but I don't remember the name...

I remember once a guy told me that his brother used to consume drugs and listen to a song about a snake by the Doors and that when he has under the influence he could hear the hidden instructions for something -getting even more doped I guess-. I asked this guy "BTW, does your brother speak English", he replied "No". No comments...

Now, there's a book about subliminal advertising that says that supermarkets play messages at a very low volume at the same time as the bg music saying "I need to buy more" "I shall not steal" and stuff like that. I wonder if it's true. That same book has many more examples of subliminal messages used in the cinema, printed ads, etc. Try and read some of that stuff just for fun

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For those interested, you can hear these songs played backwards here: http://jeffmilner.com/backmasking.htm

Some are clearly done on purpose, like the Pink Floyd one or the Weird Al Yankovic one, but others are more ambiguous, and may well be people looking for something that just isn't there.

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As I understand it, playing a song backwards and a subliminal message are actually two different things.

In my opinion though: Led Zep was a fluke, I can hear something theree but really it isn't coherent enough. Pink Floyd n the other hand have done some pretty weird stuff as well as the (obviously intetional) hidden mesage in the wall to the Dark Side of the Moon/Wizard of Oz theory....

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Stairway to heaven backwards IS creepy. This site may help you with other ones, it is the best urban myths site out there.
http://www.snopes.com/music/songs/songs.asp

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play the first 30 seconds of a song called hate yer state by choking victim and u will hear a true hidden and coherent message

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