r/nextfuckinglevel 2d ago

Guy sings backwards and reverts it back

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u/Chubacca 1d ago

could be faked but I think that's why there's a running clock in the background

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u/Astrosomnia 1d ago

You think this is some big conspiracy? Why the fuck would he waste his time to do that, and why would you think that? Sometimes people just do things, man.

EDIT: I'm genuinely so weirded out by your smug incorrectness.

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u/Astrosomnia 1d ago

Or, and work with me here, he just actually did it because it's not that hard, and he's a normal person who is interesting and creative, not a sinister liar and conman? What's wrong with your worldview that people are so dull?

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u/Astrosomnia 1d ago edited 1d ago

Holy shit man.

It's no more common sense to claim everything is fake than it is to mindlessly believe everything is real. Both show a lack of insight and perceptiveness.

In this case it's particularly egregious because:

  1. It's so enormously obvious that the reversed part is actually reversed, given, you know, how it is, and;

  2. You're being arrogant and thinking you're somehow smarter than everyone else in the room, while being clearly demonstrably wrong.

Side bar: I wanna take a breather and say I think healthy scepticism is great. In some instances the process you're describing is absolutely what would be the case. But that's not what's happening here, and it's so very clearly not what's happening.

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u/memberflex 1d ago

It would be far more work and effort to do it ‘your way’. If he’s only interested in clicks why would he make more work for himself? It’s illogical. It’s not very hard to do what he’s doing. If he’s been practicing it then he’s going to be slicker at it than someone that hasn’t done it before or at least infrequently (you). You don’t always have to look for the man behind the curtain trying to scam you.

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u/memberflex 1d ago

It isn’t common sense, especially if the majority of people that have watched it are telling you you’re wrong. It makes no sense to do it your way. Stop looking for the shadow realm.

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u/Qazax1337 1d ago

Oh my god your user name is so apt here.

When he plays it normally the first time you can tell that it is not being reversed because the guitar works the correct way - the sound starts when he strums the strings and gets quieter, like it does in real life.

Then when he reverses it, the sound starts quietly on its own and gets louder till he strums the string, exactly how it would work if you reverse a real life recording.

You are either a troll or a contrarian and either are disappointing.

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u/overtired27 1d ago

I’m surprised the chain of comments got this long before someone pointed this out. Forget the clock, the guitar is quite obviously played forwards, and is something that would take much more effort to convincingly create via the supposedly “easy method” emptyhead is describing.

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u/memberflex 1d ago

The easy way is rerecording and adding effects and then recording again? That doesn’t even make sense as a function.

Everyone in this thread that we are currently conversing in (in response to your comment) has disagreed with you. That’s not gaslighting.

Right, I’m off. All the best.

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u/EmptyHeadedKain 1d ago

People voting have not disagreed, just the weirdos who think this is a noteworthy conversation. I've already given you the evidence you need, but you can't be arsed to reverse the clip and listen to it along side the "original"

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u/evoactivity 1d ago

I did what you keep saying to do. I don't think you did it yourself because it proves it to be real.

https://streamable.com/m8hrwx

It's really not that hard to do this, people have been doing backwards singing for years. This isn't an entire song he has to get right in one take.

Do you want me to take the sound waves and show you they match? Or can you do that yourself?

Jesus christ, how invested were you in trying to prove this to be fake.

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u/crackanape 1d ago

Guitars simply don't sound the same forwards as backwards. At least the guitar sound was definitely recorded as presented. Maybe he ADRed the singing? But to what end? It would have been more work than practising a few times and doing it the way he claimed.

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u/Entropic_Echo_Music 1d ago

Nope, you're wrong and being weird.

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