Backmasking is back, as some YouTube authors claim to have revealed president Obama's true statements.
It's classically insane stuff, with "Yes we can" becoming a polite "Thank you Satan". There's a Lovecraftian surrealism with lines like "Sub-Earth - the mark that's now sooner". Don't miss the revelation of the Greek/Egyptian/posthumanist axis in "Hear my composite self for the Pharoah Zeus."
I still think it was The Exorcist (1973) which kicked off the great wave of backmasking madness, with that terrific "IAMNOONE" scene.
(thanks to gimlet-eyed Jesse Walker)
Actually, the backmasking business began with the "Paul is Dead" story back in '69 or '70. But there's one thing that never made sense about the whole "Satanic backwards messages are hypnotizing your teen while they listen to Pink Floyd" concept:how can subliminal messages register with anyone if they're backwards?
Posted by: Robert Hunt | November 19, 2010 at 22:55
Quite true, re: Beatles. I was referring to the American conservative cultural panic, which seemed detached from and quite subsequent to "Paul is Dead."
Remember the Bloom County parody?
Posted by: Bryan Alexander | November 21, 2010 at 22:18