1/29/2008 - What song is this? (2 videos)

One of the highlights of Weird Al's Amish Paradise video (a parody of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise) is towards the end where the video is being played backwards but all of Al's actions were done in reverse anyway. This has the effect of making it look like Weird Al is singing normally, but the rest of the world is moving backwards. Skip forward to the end of this video to see what it looks like:



It's obvious, though, that Weird Al is only lip-syncing backwards. While he does a very convincing job, actually singing it backwards would be very hard to do. If you'd played a voice recording of yourself backwards, the sounds you hear are very hard to mimic. And yet, that doesn't mean that people don't try. Here's somebody that did and uses it to make you guess what song he is singing: