27 Random Bits of Music Trivia That, When Played Backward, Sound Awful and Hold No Special Meaning

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27 Random Bits of Music Trivia That, When Played Backward, Sound Awful and Hold No Special Meaning
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We gullible Guses fell for a lot of fun rumors about playing our records backwards, and although a few of them got permanently damaged in the process, it gave us a few not-so-cheap thrills. Like a Ouija board, some persuasive friends were able to have the rest of us believe that they heard a Satanic message or something. We were happy to play along for a bit, but over time, we were happy enough to just listen to the album.

So scroll on down this list of amazing music facts, and who knows, maybe if you start scrolling back up, you’ll hear something sinister! 

Alice in Chains

Mockumentaries The Nona Tapes Alice in Chains did their own mockumentary to promote their third album. Columbia Records was pissed, and took their revenge by selling the short against the band's wishes when it became a cult hit. CRACKED.COM

Malcolm in the Middle

MALCOM IN THE MIDDLE THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS CRACKED.COM The story behind it was quite odd. The sitcom had not even been pitched, it was just a pilot, says TMBG's John Flansburgh. They wanted a strong song title We had said no to so many interesting gambits over the years, I don't know why we said yes.

Madonna

MADONNA PRAISED COVID FOR MAKING US ALL EQUAL. CRACKED On March 23, 2020, from a milky bath with rose petals, Madonna gave an out-of-touch we're in this together speech, saying what's wonderful about it is that it's made us all equal in many ways. Less financially secure people ripped into her online.

Dave Navarro

DAVE NAVARRO 1998 CRACKED.COM After shooting UP some heroin at a Playboy Mansion orgy, the Jane's Addiction musician tried to use the syringe to write his name on the wall in blood. This earned him a lifetime ban from the house.

Miley Cyrus

In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Miley Cyrus voices Mainframe, a Ravager on Stakar's team. James Gunn had the idea to cast Miley as the voice of the disembodied robot head after seeing her on The Voice. She came across to him as a judge who cared about the contestants, and was funny and likable and sweet -so he wanted her to voice a character in his movie. CRACKED.COM

Pharrell

PHARRELL WILLIAMS offers to write Springfield's new town song MAYOR CRACKED.COM But the job has been promised to Lisa. When Pharrell starts to sing anyway, he is blindfolded, tied to a horse and sent packing. Undaunted, the exiled singer taunts the town with Shelbyville rules, Springfield drools!

Michael Jackson

27 Random Bits of Music Trivia That, When Played Backward, Sound Awful and Hold No Special Meaning

Tom Hardy

TOM HARDY'S VENOM IS A COMBINATION OF WOODY ALLEN, CONOR MCGREGOR AND REDMAN. VENOM The character has all of McGregor's violence and Redman's freewheeling lifestyle, while being as neurotic as Allen. CRACKED.COM

The 1975

The 1975 was named after a journal entry. Matty Healy found an old book in a yard sale that had an entry dated 1st June, The 1975. CRACKED.COM

Vanilla Ice

VANILLA ICE IS CONNECTED TO MORTAL KOMBAT (THROUGH THE NINJA TURTLES). Richard Divizio and Daniel Pesina, who portrayed several of the fighters, were also Foot Clan soldiers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. Yup, that movie infamous for randomly featuring Vanilla Ice and his Ninja Rap. CRACKED.COM

Mick Jagger in The Bank Job

In The Bank Job, Mick Jagger has a cameo as a bank employee. It shows him as he might look if the Rolling Stones didn't pan out t - he was a finance and accounting student at the London School of Economics. CRACKED.COM

Aretha Franklin

Aretha Franklin only traveled to concerts by bus after a bad airplane experience. In the early 1980s, Franklin had to endure some intense turbulence while flying in a small two-engine plane from Atlanta back home to Detroit. She developed aviophobia and traveled by bus to get to concerts. CRACKED.COM

Rick James

Rick James once got a custom drawing by Salvador Dali, but he ruined it. Dali sketched him at a party on a napkin, and gave it to James. James left it in his shorts, forgot about it, and went swimming in them the next day. CRACKED.COM

Beyonce

Beyoncé's lyric mentioning Red Lobster caused their sales to increase by 33% NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Mariah Carey

CRACKED COM MARIAH CAREY LOVES WHITE THINGS. According to co-star Rob Huebel, while on set for her cameo in The House, Carey demanded her trailer be filled with white roses and plushy white lambs. She also once demanded 12 white Labrador puppies to be put in her dressing room for an appearance on a British morning show.

2 Chainz

2 Chainz's Psychology Degree CRACKED.COM Thanks to a scholarship for basketball (which he was very good at), the rapper attended college and graduated after transferring schools.

Eminem

AT A GLANCE EMINEM 8 Mile was Anthony Mackie's first film Eminem googled Anthony Mackie to learn about the actor's background and used details from his actual life in the battle against his character Papa Doc. Mackie's reaction was real. CRACKED.COM

System of A Down

SYSTEM OF A DOWN MAY 7, 2005 CRACKED.COM Is dropping an F-bomb still a thing? NBC received no complaints after the band slipped one past censors but still feared FCC reprisal.

First Aid Kit

First Aid Kit was inspired by the dictionary. Klara Söderberg said, I was 13...and looking through a dictionary, looking for a name...I think music should be like a consolation to help you get through everyday life... CRACKED.COM

NOFX

CRACKED.COM In 2017, punk band NOFX made an ill-advised joke about the mass shooting in Las Vegas. НА At least they were country fans and not punk rock fans, they said. They were immediately dropped as headliners from the Punk In Drublic Craft Beer and Music Festival, named after one of their own albums.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong had a total meltdown on stage at a festival. When the band's time was about to end, he cried, I've been around since 19-f--ing-88! And you're gonna give me one minute? I'm not f---ing Justin Bieber, you mother---er! CRACKED.COM

Azealia Banks

Azealia Banks had a long Twitter fight about the use of an anti-gay slur. In 2013, she started bickering with Baauer and Perez Hilton (who she'd fought with before), which then turned into her ranting about the way she used the word f****t. CRACKED.COM

Kanye

Just before Kanye went on SNL, he had an explosive meltdown backstage. February 13 Не had asked for a shiny floor, but they tore it down because it was too bright, so he ranted Look at that sh-, they took my f-in' stage off of 'SNL' without asking me. CRACKED.COM

Casey Kasem

American Top 40 host Casey Kasem flew off the handle because of a dead dog. Не had to read dedications for songs and then play those songs - w wen he was asked for a dedication to a dog, he went into an F-bomb-filled meltdown. CRACKED.COM

Chris Brown

Chris Brown went on a Twitter rant against people who attacked him for hitting Rihanna. Indigo It was three years after the incident, and he tweeted things like GROWN ADULTS!!!! That sh- happened three years ago! TWITTER GETS WACK REAL FAST! CRACKED.COM

Tyler, The Creator

Rapper Tyler, the Creator trashed a Los Angeles club in December 2011. Apparently, he destroyed some sound equipment at L.A.'s Roxbury Theater and got his fans to start rioting - he ended up having to pay $8,000 in damages. CRACKED.COM

Niall Horan

One Direction star Niall Horan is ornithophobic, or afraid of birds. It's due to a bad childhood experience, and he now thinks pigeons are horrible and he immediately sours on a walk in the park if pigeons show up. CRACKED.COM

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