Music

A look at morse code messages in music

by Sam Sutherland

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As we all know, rock and roll is made by Satanists intent on hiding subversive messages in their devil music. But what if I told you that all musicians are, in fact, colossal nerds, and those messages are actually all in Morse code?

Morse code was first developed in 1836, the creation of numerous minds beyond just namesake and cool haircut Samuel Morse. It cemented its value as a critical method of radio communication during the second World War, and remained the maritime distress standard until 1999.

SOS — which to be clear is a meaningless string of letters, not an acronym — is the most recognizable snippet of the code, which mixes dots an dashes that can easily be understood audibly or visually. Like when Katy Perry uses it to announce a new record from the top of the Capitol Records building.