War in Country Music

Speech and language is an interesting subject to converse about. Human speech has two functions, Overt is speaking forwards and is primary while one is aware. Covert is the backwards function of speech and occurs while the speaker is not aware. These functions of speech depend on one another and one cannot be used without the existence of the other. As children learn language, their brain first comprehends it backwards. As time goes on, and children learn to speak overtly the two functions of speech is combined into one creating a bi-level communication process.

In 1969 when The Beatles were accused of creating a song that had a message that could only be heard while reversed. This created a mass surplus of people trying to find secret messages that were lying secret in all of their favorite bands and songs. As some songs actually had secret messages in them, others were just found by people who wanted to hear something, kind of like people who think they saw aliens because they want to see aliens. As some songs had actual messages and others had fake, music clips were recorded, set backwards, and sent in to various media centers.

One song that has an example of reverse speech is Britney Spear's "Hit me baby one more time." In this song is heard the line "Sleep with me, I'm not too young." This song was one of Britney's earlier songs, while she was young, so i believe this is an actual real example of reverse speech. Another song is "Another One Bites the Dust" in which "It's fun to smoke Marijuana" can be heard. I also believe this example to be real because it sounds pretty clear and intentional.

Some songs have terrible examples of reverse speech like "Pokemon Rap" and "Beat it." These songs don't even sound like what is described in captions. "Break on Through" and "Five on High" are also examples of bad reverse speech considering, both of the lines in the songs are two words and are pronounced quickly.

Songs like "Empty Spaces" and "Nature Trial to Hell" are definitely real because they are attempting, and succeeding, to be funny. "I'm so Tired" and "My name is..." also sound pretty clear so they may be real examples of reverse speech.

Whether songs are trying to send satanic messages or just trying to be funny, reverse speech does infant exist. People may just make stuff up or try to discriminate bands they dislike, but reverse speech is real.