Janet Jackson’s Banger ‘Rhythm Nation’ Could Crash People’s Laptops

In extra classic music information, Janet Jackson’s 1989 dance-pop track “Rhythm Nation” is making headlines right now, however not as a result of it’s an incredible track, however as a result of the tune may apparently crash folks’s laborious drives with a bizarre frequency.

Sometimes a track resonates with you so deeply that it strikes you to your core, and generally a track resonates along with your laptop computer so deeply that it crashes your laborious drive. This was the case with Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation as revealed earlier this week by long-time Windows developer Raymond Chen in his weblog The Old New Thing. Chen tells the story of a colleague who, throughout laptop computer testing at a serious pc producer, found that the Rhythm Nation video would crash sure fashions of laptops, even these of their rivals.

“One discovery during the investigation is that playing the music video also crashed some of their competitors’ laptops,” Chen writes. “I would not have wanted to be in the laboratory that they must have set up to investigate this problem. Not an artistic judgement.”

The twist is that it wasn’t essentially the music video, however the track itself, as Chen describes an occasion the place a laptop computer close to the one taking part in the video crashed. “It turns out that the song contained one of the natural resonant frequencies for the model of 5400 rpm laptop hard drives that they and other manufacturers used,” Chen explains. In different phrases, Rhythm Nation has a frequency inside it that precipitated laptop computer laborious drives to vibrate to the purpose of failure. The repair apparently included placing a filter within the computer systems’ audio receiver that will detect and take away the frequency earlier than processing.

So there it’s, evidently our laptops are protected from the bass, bass, bass, bass of Rhythm’s Nation’s frequencies. Thank you Raymond Chen for reminding us all simply how unbelievable this track is.