From Larknews:
Reeling from plummeting CD sales and on-line music sharing, major music labels are quietly resurrecting the backward masking controversy, hoping evangelical backlash will generate sales.
“Everyone in the industry knows, DMs [devil messages] are a quick and easy way to get a youth pastor to advertise a band at a youth group meeting,” says one promoter who requested anonymity. Picking on evangelicals is “the hot new marketing trend because you can take their outrage straight to the bank,” he says.
Jerold Jameson, founder of the “Youth Threat: Backward Masking Exposed” seminar which was wildly popular at evangelical churches in the 1980s, recently left his job selling tires in Birmingham, Ala., to revive “Youth Threat.” The reason: an unexpected gift of $125,000 from an anonymous donor.
“Backward masking is still a danger to our youth, just like it was in the 1980s,” Jameson says during a 2-day seminar at a mega-church in Missouri. The crowd of 1,350 gasped repeatedly as Jameson revealed hidden backward messages in current pop music.
PS…if you don’t know, Larknews is a spoof website. But it is funny!
It may be a lark, but there are still people who believe this junk. My dad always said “I’m not worried about what it says backwards, I’m more worried about what it says forward.” Some people look for satan where he is not!
Yeah Kevin…that’s what makes it so believable! I remember preachers talking about this in the 80′s, heck we had a guy come and do a whole Sunday night service on it…it was wild.
Question I have is, can you play a CD backward?