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Thread started 07/21/12 3:08pm

GIOShokadelica

Prince's Songs Backwards...

I was browsing Youtube because I'm really bored lol And I was Looking for The Instrumental for God... And All of the sudden I found Backward Versions of Darling Nikki

I've always felt really freaked Out when It comes to Backward versions of songs, because you never Know What kind of scary things you can hear!

But I find Really Ironic that the song Forwards Talk about a loose Girl masturbating, But backwards It talks about How Fine he feels Because the Lord is coming neutral It even Sounds Like a gospel song!!

I feel Really amazed by this, Do you know another weird Facts about his Backward songs? Do you know If there are another Hidden Messages In his songs?

I've heard Comments about temptation and Irresistible bitch Backwards But I don't know...

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Reply #1 posted 07/21/12 3:43pm

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GIOShokadelica said:

But I find Really Ironic that the song Forwards Talk about a loose Girl masturbating, But backwards It talks about How Fine he feels Because the Lord is coming neutral It even Sounds Like a gospel song!!

I feel Really amazed by this, Do you know another weird Facts about his Backward songs? Do you know If there are another Hidden Messages In his songs?

I've heard Comments about temptation and Irresistible bitch Backwards But I don't know...

There are many threads about reversed recordings - I would do some searching. Here are some threads for starters:

http://prince.org/msg/7/12647

http://prince.org/msg/7/205822

http://prince.org/msg/7/326217

The 'Darling Nikki' recording you are referring to is the portion at the end of what was Side 1 of the album - after the song itself ends. So there is no real irony in the reversed content itself.

I'm personally not convinced about some of the examples that people have claimed were deliberate back-masked recordings:

http://prince.org/msg/7/262013

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Reply #2 posted 07/21/12 8:15pm

GIOShokadelica

O_O

I'm Reading all that And I'm even Listening to some songs backwards...

I feel Like a Noob :/ Well I'm 16, i AM a noob xD I had no idea of this stuff

I'll stop listening to Prince for a couple of days Since some stuff freaked me out... lol

I'm not going to sleep tonight Either eek razz biggrin

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Reply #3 posted 07/22/12 4:57pm

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Prince has quite a few songs with backward recordings. Others include "Baby I'm a Star" and "Girl".

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Reply #4 posted 07/22/12 5:03pm

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oh yeah... I remember in 1984 that was covered on MTV and in some magazines.

I also had a tape recorder that would play and record in both FF and rewind. So recorded the part in RR and then played it back FF and was able to hear it.

and same with "Baby I'm a Star" but with that method I could not really make it out. (girl i had the 12 so i did it by hand)

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