10 Mind-Blowing Secrets Hidden In Famous Songs

5. Nelly Furtado - Big Hoops

There is literally no explanation for this one, but it’s really bloody unsettling. Big Hoops was a fairly forgettable chart also-ran for everybody’s favourite man-eating bird impersonator Nelly Furtado back in 2012, mixing a ‘90s influenced R’n’B beat you’ve heard 3,000 times before with lyrics about earrings or tinned spaghetti or something, I dunno.

Anyways, at what we think is the end of the song, Nelly promptly tells us it’s not actually over yet before launching into a pounding drum and bass inflected outro that is as unexpected and awkwardly nailed on as those extra legs Homer Simpson steals from Thomas Edison when he decides to become an inventor.

In the background of this part, sunk down into the lowest depths of the mix, there are some whispery, gibbering backing vocals that don’t seem to belong at all. Thanks to the dynamic duo of reverse playback and people on the internet with too much time on their hands, however, these have been deciphered, and it turns out Nelly is singing: “Oh my god / Descending to the 13th floor (14th) / Eleventh floor / Descending to the 12th floor”. Spooky or what?

As if that’s not enough, Nelly spends this part of the music video making triangles with her hands, even peering through them at one point to create something that looks a lot like a pyramid with an eye in it. Illuminati confirmed.