Subliminal Seduction: Difference between revisions

* A short story from the 1930s called "Daymare" contains an example of this: a man implants a hypnotic message into a speach broadcast across an Orwellian television network to control a colony on a moon of Jupiter. Possibly making this trope [[Older Than Television]].

* In ''[[Artemis Fowl]]: The Lost Colony'', Artemis persuades his opponent to choose [[wikipedia:Taipei 101|Taipei 101]] as a meeting place by dropping words into the conversation. That it actually works seems like a far-fetched [[Xanatos Roulette]], except that the man is already intimately familiar with the location and calls it "his second home".

** It should be noted that the complaints were probably more about violating the requirement that public broadcasters in the UK stay politically neutral close to the election rather than any subliminal issues. ''[[Have I Got News for You]]'' has gotten in trouble over this multiple times.

* The subliminal popcorn ad discussed in the Snopes link at the top of the page was satirized in the [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|MST3K]] episode ''[[Time Chasers]]'' when a character's face is flashed on screen very quickly during a time travel sequence:

'''Crow:''' "I dunno but suddenly I'm hungry for a guy with glasses." }}

* Parodied in ''[[A Bit of Fry and Laurie]]'' where a woman is suing a rockstar for backmasking, the rockstar then sings a song called 'Drop All Charges.' (She does drop the charges.)

*** It's said that when the band first heard allegations that their music contained "satanic" backmasking, "skcolloB" was one of the politer responses.

** On [[Pink Floyd]]'s album ''[[The Wall]]'', 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''': "Okay". }}

*** This bit can also double as [[Fridge Brilliance]] since in the context of the album, it's a bit of [[Foreshadowing]] about Pink's mental breakdown. Also, one ''[[Everybody Is Jesus in Purgatory|incredibly detailed]]'' analysis of the album points out that Waters abandoning the message to pick up the phone reinforces the entire album's theme about the importance of communication.

*** On his solo album ''Amused To Death'', Waters includes a backwards message as a [[Take That]] to [[Stanley Kubrick]] who wouldn't let him use a sample from ''2001''.

** [["Weird Al" Yankovic]]'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."

*** PLUS [[Last-Note Nightmare|"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.

** 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 [[KMFDM]], among other fun claims, has:

if you turn it around. }}

** "The Smell" from their first album also has a backmasked voice at the beginning and end.

* 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."

* The Fiery Furnaces 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:

''Go to Denmark, man, oh it's so near'' }}

* The Bloodhound Gang'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 deep backwards speech. The message is "Devil child, wake up and eat Chef Boyardee Beefaroni"

== Radio ==

* Parodied in a "Smashie and Nicey" sketch by Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse. The two DJs are playing a record that has been accused of having backwards messages:

'''Smashie''': "Maybe you should play it at the right speed, mate." }}

* Parodied in a ''[[Bob and Ray|Bob & Ray]]'' skit as far back as 1960: An enterprising ad man ''thinks'' hard into the microphone while the B&R show is on the air and asks listeners to call in if they received any messages. One guy does call in to say that he's getting a message to come for dinner... which turns out to be from his very impatient wife.

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{{spoiler|I like pie.}}

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