The 1989 hit Rhythm Nation is so compelling, it can destroy your 2005-era laptop via the power of natural resonant frequencies.
You’ve probably heard of the urban legends of how marching soldiers or just having a lot of pedestrians on a bridge can cause catastrophic destruction due to hitting the natural resonant frequency of it causing a build up of vibration and movement. As it turns out, not only is that true, but it can also affect hard drives. And perhaps an even weirder fact is that Janet Jackson’s 1989 hit, the now ironically named Rhythm Nation, can actually hit hard drives hard enough to kill them.
As told by Raymond Chen, a Microsoft engineer and author of ‘The Old New Thing’, a colleague of his told him a story from the Windows XP days, where a major computer manufacturer found that when they played Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation, it would crash certain laptop models. Not only were their own laptops affected, but also that of their competitors. It gets even stranger, as one of these laptops didn’t even need to actually be playing the song.
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