What does English sound like in music.

But they're not really the same sounds. The diphthongs would be backwards: oo-ah doesn't sound anything like "ow" for example. The aspiration of initial voiceless consonants, one of the most noticeable sounds in English would be completely off. In short, backwards English sounds nothing like English. Backwards Italian sounds equally unpleasant

It sounds ok for music like rock and rap but for more traditional and classical music it sounds superbly lacking. On the other hand, languages like Spanish sound wonderful in traditional music but atrocious in rock.

Yes, the "reversing a recording to see what a language sounds like" theory is moronic. It isn't even a matter of reversing all the phonemes, which would change the phonotactics... The sounds of the individual phonemes are also distorted when the sound wave is reverse.

"Yes, the "reversing a recording to see what a language sounds like" theory is moronic. "

It might be, user; it was merely a theory, anyway.

Outside the practice of reversing the tape, however, there seemed literally no other way to get an idea of how the language might sound to an outsider.