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The song speaks degradingly about angsty teenagers who look for backwards messages in music, and contains the lyrics "Play that record backwards / Here's a message yo for the suckas / Play that record backwards / And go fuck yourself." Moby "Machete" "I have to say goodbye." [62] Appears midway through the song. Motörhead
Artists have used backmasking for artistic, comedic and satiric effect, on both analogue and digital recordings. It has also been used to censor words or phrases for "clean" releases of explicit songs. In 1969, rumors of a backmasked message in the Beatles song "Revolution 9" fueled the Paul is dead urban legend. [2]
In her article for PopSugar UK Angela Law considered the song a possible "Halloween anthem of 2019", [30] and All-Noise named it a catchy, "creepy bop". [31] Consequence's Nina Corcoran complimented the song's lyrics and sound, noting that "it’s just the right amount of eerie without being a full-blown scary song."
Alamy (2); FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty . Michael Jackson, 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' Tim Curry in 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show.'
The song's melody and chorus were taken from a song popularly sung by children with clapping games called "Down Down Baby".On the clean version, the word "shit" is backmasked, and most of the explicit words are replaced by radio-friendly words and bleep-related sound effects.
In the song's chorus, the words "Gera Gera Po" are repeated multiple times, which composer and arranger Tomoki Kikuya stated was so that listeners could "easily get on the [song's] rhythm". Kikuya originally thought that "Gera Gera Po" wouldn't be popular among children due to it being creepy, stating that he "thought the kids would be scared ...
In January 2019, the glitchy-pop song "Voicemail" was released as the lead single from Choke. Its music video served as a follow-up to Poppy's 2018 music video "X". During an interview with Interview Magazine regarding "Voicemail", she announced that her next single would be "Scary Mask". [3] In April, she began posting teasers for the song. [4]
"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" is a Halloween song by American musician Andrew Gold, first released on his 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music. [2] Since the 2010s, the song has received a resurgence in popularity online as an Internet meme. [2] [3] In 2013, The Living Tombstone created a dubstep remix of the song.