play an annoying song over and over to get someone to spill their guts might vocalise like a muzzle from a Mel Brooks moving-picture show , but it ’s actually become a stock practice . An article by an NYU musicologist in theJournal of the Society for American Musicdetails how euphony was regularly used in interrogation on floor in Iraq and Afghanistan as a method of inducing freak out to get suspect to verbalize without inflicting physical force . Here are some of the Song dynasty used by military and law enforcement entities to get their suspects to sing .
1. Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the USA”
It should stand up as no surprise that a large absolute majority of the Sung dynasty used in Guantanamo Bay consisted of apparently patriotic ditties like Springsteen ’s most noted American anthem . One Spanish citizen accused of being linked to the terrorist connection Al - Qaida claimed his interrogators played this song the legal age of the time during his entire two year stay in the Cuban prison house . However , Clive Stafford Smith , the effectual music director of the UK human right charity Reprieve , note that it may not have been the most loyal pick since " the message of the song is harshly vital of American insurance policy , condemning the warfare in Vietnam and describing a veteran ’s efforts to find work . "
2. Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty”
3. Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Were Made for Walking”
4. AC/DC’s “Shoot to Thrill” and “Hells Bells”
5. Anything by Barry Manilow
6. Barney the Dinosaur’s “I Love You”
Danny Gallagher is a freelance writer , humourist , reporter and piano human race living in Texas . He can be constitute on the web atdannygallagher.net , on MySpace atmyspace.com/dannygahatesmyspaceand on Twitter attwitter.com/thisisdannyg .
