I was bored one day and I reversed the bridge of Politik. When forwards, Chris sings, "And give me love over, love over, love over this, ahhhhhh." Backwards, he sings, "Ahhhh, I see the woman, the woman, the woman leavin' me, ahhhhh." It's somewhat freaky. Some of you guys would disagree, but if you want, here's an mp3:

 

http://sexypenguins.com/upload/politik_bridge_backwards.mp3

 

It plays forwards first then plays it backwards. Call me a traitor or whatever but you gotta be sure to check it out, lol. The download is 1.10 MB, encoded @ 96 kbs. I used Sound Forge 6 to edit this song.

Your right it sounds very similair, but I really do not beleive they did this purposely. I mean come on. Lets write an amazing song, but make sure it says something backwards. I just don't buy into that one bit.

Haha it does sound very similar and sounds like a lyric Chris would write ;)

 

But I since they sweat so much over writing songs anyway (16 months has it been now lads ;) ) I doubt they'd make life even harder by including backwards masking too!

Ya they certainly have enough trouble writing them forwards let alone backwards. But hey once they are written, their songs are pure genius!

I'm actually listening to Politik now, wooot :P

Well they did talk about using subliminal messages in the tour diary, but they were just foolin around. But upon watching that tour diary, it gave me an idea to try reversing Politik, since it's an opening track. Though When I first heard this song, the image of a man and a woman 'splitting up" came to my mind. And no, I'm not lying at all.

I was bored one day and I reversed the bridge of Politik. When forwards, Chris sings, "And give me love over, love over, love over this, ahhhhhh." Backwards, he sings, "Ahhhh, I see the woman, the woman, the woman leavin' me, ahhhhh." It's somewhat freaky. Some of you guys would disagree, but if you want, here's an mp3:

 

http://sexypenguins.com/upload/politik_bridge_backwards.mp3

 

It plays forwards first then plays it backwards. Call me a traitor or whatever but you gotta be sure to check it out, lol. The download is 1.10 MB, encoded @ 96 kbs. I used Sound Forge 6 to edit this song.

 

 

this is bonkers!!! Can I show this to Debs?? I think she'd get a kick out of it and play if for the boys... :idea2: seriously... this backwards thing may have been purposely... when they filmed the Scientist.. he learned the song backwards... to film the video.. he (Chris) liked the way it sounded backwards that he offered it on the dvd single to the song.. and it sounds very similar to this....

 

I'm going to email it to her if thats ok?? :)

Ok though I did post it on the Official Coldplay forum, but w/e. Not too many paid much attention because the peeps from the Coldplay forum are ignorant! haha, j/k. But yeah, go ahead and email it :)

haha! they are a 'special breed' there.. lol I'm going to show it to her.. lol whats your name btw... so I can give credit where credit is due.. ;)

Evan Ruoss :)

cheers! I will e-mail her now.. ;)

ha..i like it :cool: I have a reversed version of the album, and never noticed that! i don't think it will have been in purpose...but it's still fun to hear things like that!

Heh heh... good one. Might check it out soon. (Even though I've also got the reverse-d version of the album).

Very interesting stuff! i dont think it was personally done on purpose, but it certainly fits.

Is their seriously a reversed copy of arobtth floating around out there?

Is their seriously a reversed copy of arobtth floating around out there?

 

Not officially.

 

Someone uploaded it to her site sometime back. Long story short, she got shut down by record company or something.

I never noticed this either..thanks ;)

when i click on link it says 'page cannot be displayed' grrrr

when i click on link it says 'page cannot be displayed' grrrr

 

The same happens to me... :huh:

Yeah, I'll work on getting it back up. I'm on dialup right now, and it'd take an eternity to re-upload it.