Nothing to do with Bags or Clothes – Hidden Goldfrapp Lyrics?!!

Posted on | April 10, 2010 | No Comments

This is nothing to do with ethical clothes, jewellery or bags; if you’re not interested move right along to another post please!

I just submitted this to Wikipedia about the Goldfrapp track, [[Strict Machine]].  It might not stay there long, but I think it’s interesting, so I want to record it here!  (I’m a big Goldfrapp fan)

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The track appears to contain backmasking. When played backwards, the reversed lyrics appear to say, “Eeeooh, eeeooh, something’s new. I love, you. I love, you.” There also seem to be hints that backmasking is present even when the track is played forwards. Vocalised elements from 1min:17secs to 1min:30sec from the end of the track are clearly reversed, and when those elements are played forward (i.e. when the track is played backwards) they turn out to be Alison erotically enthusing, “yeah, yeah, oh yeah.”^[15]

Alison has stated that the track is about a lab rat learning to love its pleasure centres being electrically simulated, but if there really is backmasking on this track then it is possible that this story was retro-fitted to the ‘hidden’ lyrics on the track, in much the same way Queen supposedly retro-fitted their story about Another One Bites the Dust.

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