History Main / SdrawkcabSpeech

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': In "Let's Play Paranormal Stuff", Kaeloo manages to get a spirit to communicate with them through Quack Quack. Its speech is incomprehensible at first, and when Stumpy asks why he can't understand it, Kaeloo explains that spirits always speak backwards and [[BreakingTheFourthWall asks the director of the cartoon to play the the snippet of dialogue backwards so that they can hear what it's saying]]. The dialogue, when reversed, says "I am the great spirit of yogurts".

* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', there's an instance where James of Team Rocket talks backwards when being swallowed by his Victreebel.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', every magic spell requires a spoken incantation. The spell incantations for DarkMagic sound like regular speech spoken backwards.

* In ''Film/SpyKids'', the nonsense songs sung by the characters of the ShowWithinAShow ''Floop's Fooglies'' are actually cries of "Floop is a madman, help us, save us!" spoken backwards by the mutated and imprisoned Fooglies.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'', every magic spell requires a spoken incantation. The spell incantations for DarkMagic sound like regular speech spoken backwards.

* A round on Creator/TheBBC Radio 2 music PanelGame ''Jammin'''; one of the presenters had the talent that he could ''actually' sing songs backwards. The guests would then have to guess what the song was, and then the tape would be played backwards so we could hear the song forwards.

* A round on TheBBC Radio 2 music PanelGame ''Jammin'''; one of the presenters had the talent that he could ''actually' sing songs backwards. The guests would then have to guess what the song was, and then the tape would be played backwards so we could hear the song forwards.

* ''WesternAnimation/GIJoeARealAmericanHero'': In "Sins of Our Fathers", Destro speaks an arcane chant to control a demon. If played backwards, he's saying, "Anyone listening to this backwards for a secret occult message is a real dweeb!"
* It's everywhere in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' - for example, at the end of every theme song is a whisper that, if played backwards, reveals a way to solve a secret code in the end credits. But one of the most notable examples is [[spoiler:is during Bill Cipher's death, where he shouts gibberish that translates to what seems to be a way to eventually bring him back to life:]]

* In ''Series/TwinPeaks'' one character [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Man From Another Place]] has a strange singsongy way of speaking. What they did was have the actor read his lines forward into a recorder, play it backwards to learn how to recreate those sounds, film the scenes with him saying the backwards lines, then re-backwards-izing it forwards.

* It's everywhere in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' - for example, at the end of every theme song is a whisper that, if played backwards, reveals a way to solve a secret code in the end credits. But one of the most notable examples is [[spoiler:is during Bill Cipher's death, where he shouts gibberish that translates to what seems to be a way to eventually bring him back to life:]]
-->'''[[spoiler:Bill:]]'''[[spoiler: "A-X-O-L-O-T-L, MY TIME HAS COME TO BURN, I INVOKE THE ANCIENT POWER THAT I MAY RETURN!"]]

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': In "Opposite Day", [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick speak backwards while celebrating the titular day. The translation:

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'' episode "The Wand", Gumball and Darwin pretend a toy wand Richard is actually magic. When he hits them with a "reverse spell", Gumball says the words in his previous sentence ("Its power has overtaken you.") in reversed order ("You overtaken has power its"). Darwin corrects him by speaking what it clearly a reversed recording of the same sentence.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book version of "The Hundredth Smurf", Vanity's mirror clone literally speaks backwards with all the letters and punctuation marks in his speech balloons arranged backwards, as a mirror to Vanity's own speech balloons.

* In ''ComicBook/TheSmurfs'' comic book version of "The Hundredth Smurf", Vanity's mirror clone literally speaks backwards with all the letters and punctuations marks in his speech balloons arranged backwards, as a mirror to Vanity's own speech balloons.

* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/DoomII'' Level 30, the Icon of Sin, recites the phrase "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero," reversed and distorted to sound like a demonic chant.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': In [[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns "Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 2"]] Chief Wiggum has a DreamSequence where Lisa appears, talking backwards-forwards in an homage to ''Twin Peaks''.

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* Pretty much all the entries under the "Music" section of SubliminalSeduction. If a song fits both tropes, please add it there and not here until further notice.

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* John Lennon's lead vocal is played backwards towards the end of Music/TheBeatles' song "Rain"
* Bloodrock was one of the first to poke fun at the concept; in "Gotta Find A Way" a backwards message has one of the band members saying "Anyone who is stupid enough to play this record backwards deserves what he is about to hear", followed by a quote from Literature/{{Jabberwocky}}.
* A number of artists have made songs with intentional backmasking, to poke fun at the phenomenon and/or cheese off MoralGuardians and {{Media Watchdog}}s:
** The Mindless Self Indulgence song ''Backmask'' is a blatant poke at subliminal messages. When played forwards, the lyrics tell the listener to "go kill yourself", "don't forget the guns - you're gonna need 'em to destroy", et cetera; played backwards, a large section consists of a pleasant female voice telling the listener to be a good person, e.g. "Don't stay out too late", "Get dressed for church".
** The intro to Music/ElectricLightOrchestra's "Fire On High" contains the ominous-sounding backwards message "The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back! Turn back! Turn back!" They later released an entire album, ''Secret Messages'', parodying the practice and the associated hype. It's said that when the band first heard allegations that their music contained "satanic" backmasking, "skcolloB" was one of the politer responses.
** On Music/PinkFloyd's album ''Music/TheWall'', the song "Empty Spaces" contains the amusingly self-referential if kind of hard to make out since it's so buried in the mix backwards message
--->'''Roger Waters:''' Congratulations, hunters, you've just discovered the secret message! Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont...\\
'''James Guthrie:'''[[note]]One of the album's producers[[/note]] ''[interrupts]'' Roger, Carolyne [[note]]Roger's then-wife[[/note]] is on the phone.\\
'''Roger Waters:''' "Okay".
** On his solo album ''Amused To Death'', Waters includes a backwards message as a TakeThat to Creator/StanleyKubrick who wouldn't let him use a sample from ''2001''.
--->'''Roger Waters:''' Julia, however, in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we changed our minds. [[LampshadeHanging We have decided to include a backward message.]] Stanley, for you, and for all the other book burners... [[CarefulWithThatAxe (unintelligble screaming)]].
** Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Nature Trail to Hell" contains the backwards message "Satan eats Cheez-Whiz!" His song "I Remember Larry" has the backwards message "Wow, you must have an awful lot of free time on your hands." [[LastNoteNightmare "Bite Me"]], Which is probably the weirdest example ever. If you slow it down 800% (300% in Sound Recorder), it has a segment of a different song in it.
** "Detour Through Your Mind" by the B-52s contains the backwards message "I buried my parakeet in the backyard. Oh no, you're playing the record backwards! Watch out, you might ruin your needle."
** Music/IronMaiden's album ''Piece of Mind'' contains, between the songs "The Trooper" and "Still Life", a backwards recording of Nicko [=McBrain=] doing his impression of UsefulNotes/IdiAminDada: "What ho, said the thing with the three bonce, don't meddle with things you don't understand." The band put this in the album on purpose to {{Troll}} the MoralGuardians who accused them of being Satanists because of [[Music/TheNumberOfTheBeast "The Number of the Beast"]].
** The Aquabats!' song "Why Rock", a parody of the metal style associated with this trope (and claimed to be a cover of a band called Leather Pyrate) contains the backwards message "It's worth it to graduate; your parents have the right idea. Brush your teeth."
** The song "Echo Side" by Music/DarkLotus (a Creator/PsychopathicRecords supergroup featuring members of Music/InsaneClownPosse (who were already the target of MoralGuardians and ''proud'' of it) and Music/{{Twiztid}}) features a backmasked message which when reversed is actually an anti-Satanic message: ''Fuck the devil, fuck that shit, we believe in life legit. If you hearin' what we say, why you throw your soul away?''.
** Subverted in the Music/OingoBoingo song "Cry of the Vatos" which features drums, screaming, and full-volume backmasked lyrics... which when played in reverse, say things like "Accept Jesus into your heart and you will be saved. You will receive everlasting life."
** The song "Heavy Metal Poisoning" from Music/{{Styx}}'s message-heavy 1983 album ''Music/KilroyWasHere'' includes a heavily-distorted voice reciting the [[OminousLatinChanting Latin slogans]] from the dollar bill. And if that weren't enough, the second side of the album begins with a short clip of reversed speech all by itself.
** Music/TheyMightBeGiants do this all the time, most noticeably in the song simply called "Subliminal". If you play "On Earth, My Nina" backwards, you'll actually hear "Thunderbird", another song of theirs. They Might Be Giants being They Might Be Giants, they released the "reversed" song half a decade before the forwards one. The demo version of "Which Describes How You're Feeling" has a bridge that, when played backwards, gives the message "They Might Be Giants wanted to include a verse about the suffering people in the world, but we couldn't figure out where to put it into the song". And "Hide Away Folk Family" ends with ''fake'' back-masking: It's actually just John Flansburgh singing a string of backwards-sounding nonsense. They do a double reverse in the song "Dinner Bell". They take a string of spoken parts of the body (ex. shoulder, bicep, elbow, arm), reverse the line, sing what they heard of the reversed line, and then reverse the reversed lines that they sung, and put those lines into the song. It's a cool effect.
** The ending of Music/SoulCoughing's "The Bug" features a just barely audible loop of Mike Doughty repeating "George Clooney is Satan!" Not only is it a parody of the supposed message "I buried Paul" hidden in "Strawberry Fields" by the Beatles, it's also something of a TakeThat [[BitingTheHandHumor to the very film it was written for]]... ''Film/BatmanAndRobin'', starring George Clooney.
** "[=P5hng Me A*wy=]", a song from Music/LinkinPark's remix album ''Reanimation'', contains a backmasked section which is simply one of the song's verses.
** Inverted with Music/LinkinPark's "Announcement Service Public." YOU SHOULD BRUSH YOUR TEETH! AND! YOU SHOULD WASH YOUR FACE!
** "The Poet And The Pendulum," the first track on Nightwish's ''Dark Passion Play'', opens with backmasked verses from the end of the song.
** Music/{{Soundgarden}} attempted to cash in on this satanic messages thing on the song ''665'', but a bout of dyslexia lead them to leave a message to Santa.
** "Please Don't Release This Song", Music/MitchBenn's parody of [[Music/TheBeatlesAnthology "new" Beatles songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love"]] on the album ''Too Late To Cancel'', ends with a backmasked section that turns out to actually be the chorus of "We Haven't Got A Clue", the first song on the album.
** The Music/FranzFerdinand song ''Michael'' has "She worries about you, call your mother" backmasked into it.
** The intro to Music/BoneThugsNHarmony's album ''East 1999 Eternal'' has an entire rap verse done backwards, appropriately by Bizzy, the CloudCuckooLander of the group.
** "Subliminal" by Floetry includes a backmasked line at the end to add to the song's flavor. Turns out Natalie's saying, "Do you feel clever? No, forget what everyone else has to say. Do ''you'' feel clever?" the same line that opens the song.
** Brazilian rock band Engenheiros do Hawaii did this in their song "Ilusão de Ótica" ("Auditive Illusion"[[note]]This actually is a PunBasedTitle that only makes sense in Portuguese, with the phrase "ilusão de óptica" (optical illusion)[[/note]]) from their 1990 album ''O Papa é Pop'' (''The Pope Is Pop''). At a certain point in the song, when the record is played backwards, the vocalist Humberto Gessinger says, "[[BreakingTheFourthWall Por que é que cê tá ouvindo isto ao contrário? O que é que cê tá procurando? Hein?]]" ("Why are you hearing this backwards? What are you looking for? Huh?").
*** The song also contains more backmasked messages, like "Jesus salva, salve as baleias, leia livros" ("Jesus saves, save the whales, read books") and "safe sex, relax".
** Even ChristianRock band Music/{{Petra}} got in on this. After being falsely accused of planting real backmasked Satanic messages in their songs (this was the early '80s), they deliberately placed a conspicuous backwards message in the space between two songs on their 1981 album ''Never Say Die'': The message? [[SchmuckBait "What are you looking for the Devil for,]] [[TakeThat when you oughtta be looking for the Lord?"]] Later they openly lambasted the critics with their song "Witch Hunt", which contained, in the bridge, backwards versions of spoken lines that also appeared forwards in the same song.
* The infamously "pornographic" song "Darling Nikki" from ''Film/PurpleRain'' by Music/{{Prince}} has a backward-masked sequence that, when played forwards, says "Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know the Lord is coming soon. Coming, coming soon."
* "Sucker" by Self ends in an AffectionateParody of this: It has a backmasked sequence that sounds identical to the one in "Darling Nikki", but changes the message to "Hello, how are you? I'm fine, 'cause I know that breakfast is coming soon" (It's from an album called ''Breakfast With Girls'', and the next song on the album is the title track).
* You can find "backwards message" videos on Website/YouTube for hundreds, possibly even thousands of songs, for everything from [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Led+Zeppelin+backwards&search_type=&aq=f Led Zeppelin]] to [[http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Spongebob+Squarepants+theme+backwards&search_type=&aq=f the theme song to]] ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
* Parodied [[http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/daftpunk here]], revealing the hidden meanings behind Music/DaftPunk 's ''Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger''.
* The outtro of Information Society's cover of Music/GaryNuman's "Are Friends Electric?" has the backmasked message "Obey your parents. Do your homework. Winners don't do drugs." At first I thought it was the voice of the broken-down robot, with the mechanical noise in the background.
* The end of the title track of the first Music/{{Overkill}} album, on original pressings, has the message "There's no message here, you're going to ruin your needle, asshole!"
* Semi-similarly, the end of Vicious Rumors' album "Digital Dictator" contains a very obvious backwards message which reverses to play "Be nice to your mom and dad. Don't abuse. Don't blow your brains out on drugs. Rock your brains out. By the way, you're ruining your needle."
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* Music/FiveIronFrenzy:
** They mentioned backmasking in "So Far, So Bad". The song describes the band's fictional MagnumOpus (which we'll never hear because TheMan is suppressing it), and among its other features, "If you ever tried to play it backwards, it told the kids to stay in school."
** FIF also used backmasking themselves to hide nonsensical messages. On ''Quantity is Job 1'', the space between "Riot Gear" and "The Untimely Death of Brad" includes Reese saying "Brad is dead. Let's kill Brad." On ''The End is Here'', "That's How the Story Ends" starts with Reese saying "Sandwiches make the best friends."
* "Sucks" by Music/{{KMFDM}}, among other fun claims, has:
--> KMFDM forward the ultimate sound\\
and a message from Satan\\
if you turn it around.
** "The Smell" from their first album also has a backmasked voice at the beginning and end.
* The beginning of ''Just One Fix'' by Music/{{Ministry}} contains a particularly stunning [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDO4qroy2no example]] (based on the sample from the film Film/{{Sid and Nancy}}) which makes sense played both forwards and backwards. Forwards: "Never trust a junkie." Backwards: [[spoiler:"Christ is so stupid!"]].
* The song "Defy the Ailments" by The Faint, from their album ''Media'', contains a message that says "Think [unintelligible]'ll talk backwards... Sometimes I amaze myself."
* Music/TheFieryFurnaces like using reversed vocals as a studio trick, but there's really only one time they've hidden any lyrics this way. The single version of "Tropical Iceland" adds a fifth verse where the first and last lines are reversed. Playing the song backwards reveals that the full contents of that verse are:
-->''And if you ever need some hash or weed''\\
You won't be gettin' it here\\
Just take off into the bumpy sea\\
''Go to Denmark, man, oh it's so near''
* The Music/BloodhoundGang's "Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)" references the Judas Priest controversy with the lines "Rewind and let me reverse / Backwards like Judas Priest first did" followed by a bit of [[EvilSoundsDeep slowed down, evil-sounding]] backwards speech. The message is "Devil child, wake up and eat Chef Boyardee Beefaroni"
* "What Can't Be Seen" by Music/EverythingElse features the first verse played backwards during the solo.
* Music/MissyElliot's 'Work It' did this, too, obviously only for artistic effect. In the chorus, it goes "I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it", and then the next line is that line reversed.
** There's also another line in the song that goes, "Watch the way Missy like to take it backwards!".
* [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] by Finnish IndustrialMetal band, Turmion Kätilöt, in a couple of their songs. For example in "Piiloviestien Neitietsivä" ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which even translates as]] "The Literature/NancyDrew of Hidden Messages"), there is hidden the following message (in Finnish):
-->[[TakeThatAudience You dim-witted coyote]], turn that music right way around, that sounds pretty shitty! [[TrollingCreator Did you think that there would even be some infernal message here?]] Are you the Ari Vatanen of love, [[TitleDrop Nancy Drew of hidden messages?]] Are you still standing on your head? HALLELUJAH!
** Another one in "U.S.C.H!":
-->[[Franchise/{{Saw}} I want to play a game.]] Search the alternative ends for your U.S.C.H, and the prize will be yours. Let the hunt begin.
** Played straight in "Kirosana": (translated from Finnish) "Let us rape this hellish heaven on earth. There's a meaning of life for you."
* According to Music/BlueStahli himself, his music contains messages telling you to do inappropriate things with cowboy hats.
* At the end of the Music/{{Incubus}} track "Azwethinkweiz" is a backwards message that can be reversed to play, "Thursday night we smoked indica, and Azwethinkweizm was BORN!"
* Music/FrankZappa parodied the idea of Satanic messages in rock by recording a track called "Ya Hozna" on ''Music/ThemOrUs'', which is completely performed backwards with backwards lyrics.
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* In {{Pokemon}}, there's an instance where James of Team Rocket talks backwards when being swallowed by his Victreebel.

--->'''Roger Waters''': "Congratulations, hunters, you've just discovered the secret message! Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont..."
--->'''James Guthrie'''[[note]]One of the album's producers[[/note]]: *interrupts* "Roger, Carolyne [[note]]Roger's then-wife[[/note]] is on the phone."
--->'''Roger Waters''': "Okay".

--->'''Roger Waters''': Julia, however, in the light and visions of the issues of Stanley, we changed our minds. [[LampshadeHanging We have decided to include a backward message.]] Stanley, for you, and for all the other book burners... [[CarefulWithThatAxe (unintelligble screaming)]].

--> KMFDM forward the ultimate sound
--> and a message from Satan
--> if you turn it around.

-->''And if you ever need some hash or weed''
-->You won't be gettin' it here
-->Just take off into the bumpy sea
-->''Go to Denmark, man, oh it's so near''

* The FinalBoss of ''VideoGame/{{DoomII}}'' Level 30, the Icon of Sin, recites the phrase "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero," reversed and distorted to sound like a demonic chant.

-->'''Goofy:''' .yfooG s'ti, yekciM, olleH
-->'''Mickey:''' Goofy, you're talking through the wrong end of the phone again!
-->'''Goofy:''' !spoO

-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Hey, Patrick.
-->'''Patrick:''' I give up.
-->'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' To get to the ''opposite'' side.
-->''(they both laugh)''

* Music/{{Caparezza}} included a backmasked message in one of the tracks of his latest CD. You can read more about it [[http://www.staperarrivarelafinedelmondo.com/2011/02/messaggi-subliminali-sul-nuovo-cd-di-caparezza/#comments here]] (in Italian). The message means more or less: "I know how religion makes slaves out of you... but darkness will make its light". One of the album tracks (not the one where the message is) indeed talks about conspiracies and secrets.