think of researching subliminal messages was a simple fluke. For the first few years of my elementary life, I was taught at a Christian school where anything secular, (not of the church world), was of the devil. That included non-Christian music, books, as well as television. Some of my teachers even went as far as to tell us students that all secular forms of entertainment were strewn with immoral messages. Even in the early 80's during the time of big hair and rock n' roll, music was under extreme fire. "Music is used everywhere to condition the human mind. It can be just as powerful as a drug and much more dangerous, because nobody takes musical manipulation very seriously" (Underground Noize). Thus began my quirky curiosity with the secret wicked messages that I could not see, nor consciously hear, but were "most definitely" corrupting my perfect little mind.
             It wasn't until recently that I actually took the time to look up some of the actual secular material that my teachers had told me about. I searched the Internet under "backmasked" music. "Backmasked" is a term that is used to describe particular hidden messages, which can only be heard when the record is played backwards. Some of the most interesting lyrics lie in the most popular artists songs. Madonna for example sings, "Life is a mystery" in her song "Like A Prayer". Now, supposedly when you play it backwards, it says, "O hear our savior Satan". I listened to these lyrics as well as many others by artists such as Led Zeppelin, The Eagles, U2, and countless others. After listening to all of these lyrics, it seemed extremely creepy to me to actually be hearing these things (The Truth Behind Today's Popular Music). Now I could hardly understand what the garbled voices were saying, however after I looked up the lyrics I could somewhat understand what the incoherent muddle ...