10 Mind-Blowing Secrets Hidden In Famous Songs

4. Pokemon Rap

They say that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn’t exist. Seemingly though, his second greatest trick was buying shares in Game Freak, going into league with Satoshi Tajiri, infiltrating the writing team of Takeshi Shudo, and incorporating a hidden back-masked message designed to enlist scores of unsuspecting children into his army of the netherworld in that catchy rap that played at the end of each episode of the Pokemon TV series.

Aside from being an infuriating test of memory that required savant-like powers of recall to sing along to, the rap is also a lyrical tongue-twister, darting back and forth with made-up names being blurted out at breakneck speed.

The one bit we all know word for word though is that “Gotta catch ‘em all / Gotta catch ‘em all” hook, but all is not what it seems. Played backwards, the resulting piece of music is absolutely nightmare-inducing. It sounds like a Transformer being fed to a car compactor, but in amongst the din it’s just possible to pick out the words “I love Satan” being repeated again and again.

Kind of like Pokemon’s YVAN EHT NIOJ moment, the argument, as is so often the case, is that the franchise is trying to recruit kids into Satanic worship.