When Jeff Milner installed software on his Web site that could play digital songs in reverse, he tested it with a snippet of Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." The song, heard normally, refers to "a bustle in your hedgerow." Played backward, says Milner, the line sounds like: "Oh, here's to my sweet Satan."
Today, Milner's Web site plays parts of songs from the Eagles, John Lennon, Britney Spears, Eminem and others - both normally and in reverse. Milner, a Canadian college student majoring in new media, offers interpretations of the reverse-plays. A line in Spears' "Baby One More Time," played backward, becomes "Sleep with me, I'm not too young," Milner claims. What sounds like mumbling in Pink Floyd's "Empty Spaces," Milner says, becomes more intelligible in reverse: "Congratulations, you have just discovered the secret message."
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