Can you guess this peppy tune’s original title?

If you want to try guessing, you probably should before reading the next paragraph! It might give a little too much away.

This assignment seemed like fun; I wish I had a deeper reason than that, but I really was just excited to this because it seemed entertaining. I picked this particular song because I was curious about how it would sound reversed, and whether it would be as distinctive. It’s a song that a person can recognize in a heartbeat. This is also one of those songs that always makes me feel better if I’ve had a bad day, or helps wake me up in the morning. I also respect the singer, for his philanthropy, his music, and his attitude despite the opposition he faced for his sexuality. Therefore, I had a really good time with this assignment.

To reverse this audio, I used Audacity. Opening up the application, I then opened up the file of the song that I wanted to reverse.

Next, I went up to ‘Effects’ on the menu and clicked ‘Reverse’. Listening to the track after this was very entertaining!

I didn’t want to post the entirety of the song, so afterwards I needed to choose a part of the song to cut. By highlighting over parts of the song I didn’t need, then clicking ‘Edit’ then ‘Delete’, I got the song down to less than a minute.

I exported my audio as a .WAV file and uploaded it to Soundcloud. And the rest is up to you to guess!

Guidelines for this assignment can be found here.

For the second assignment of the week, I decided to do one where I take a song, reverse it, and take a small snippet (30 seconds), and see if someone can guess what song it is! My thinking was to choose a song the has very level high and low peaks. That way, if it is reversed, it will be pretty hard to tell just off of the instruments. So the first thing I did was to pick a song (in this case I can’t tell you which one it is!). I then opened the mp3 file in Audacity. Go up to the Effects tab and choose “reverse.”

Audacity will automatically reverse the song for you and then highlight the sections of the song you want to cut away and click the scissors icon. Cut it so you get it down to 30 seconds and that’s it. See if you can figure out what song it is! I will post the soundcloud link to the original song underneath the reversed song if you want to her what it was!

Reversed:

Forward:

I did the Reverse Audio Quiz and now your job as the reader is to try and guess the song by listening to it reversed and also with the help of three hints.

My three hints are:

1. This song is from the genre Vaporwave, so as a result it samples old 80’s music and slows it down and repeats it this video linked here is a pretty good explanation of what it is.
2. If you search “aesthetic”, the album it comes from is one of the top hits on Google’s image search
3. It’s title is referenced by typing into Google Translate in the video linked

This assignment was pretty simple to do. Audacity already has a reverse function so it’s pretty straightforward. I didn’t want this song to be too noticeable on what it is, but I wanted the off chance that someone has probably heard it. The song had gotten pretty popular on the internet and had made its rounds on social media, often times without the title being given. This will add a few levels of difficulty to the discovery of the song.

For this 3.5 point audio assignment, I was instructed to reverse a recognizable song and provide three hints as to what the original song was. I found this assignment easy, only requiring me to apply a reversal effect on a converted song MP3 in Audacity.

My first hint is actually the title of my blog post, and the second hint is the background image of the Soundcloud audio track! My third hint is that it’s a song from an Oscar-winning film.

Still not sure what it is?

“For the First Time in Forever” from the film “Frozen” is the original song!