Talk:Rhythm Nation

Song crashes hard drives

This song had certain resonating frequencies that crashed old notebook hard drives. Is this worth mentioning in the article? https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Misel (talk • contribs) 09:45, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

Why not? But "The song contains one of the natural resonant frequencies of 60 hertz, which matches 5400 rpm" is not was Chen is saying and makes technically no sense. My english is too bad and I prefere someone else to do the correction. Read the reference and write only was is written there. 194.230.148.36 (talk) 19:57, 19 August 2022 (UTC)

I have always considered this Rhythm Nation claim to be an elaborate hoax. None of the explanations I have heard for why those hard drives crashed made any sense whatsoever. If you could actually do this, Tiktok and Instagram would be full of videos of people crashing hard drives by finding their resonant frequency. Ruebezahl (talk) 22:34, 9 July 2025 (UTC)

Technology from Captain EO?

"The music video used technology from brother Michael Jackson's Captain EO with his permission." What does that mean?--The lorax (talk) 16:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

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we should link this somewhere in the article since it is a lyric used in the song, when she protests it. It caught me ear most of all when Roger sang it on American Dad. --64.231.169.3 (talk) 04:58, 5 July 2016 (UTC)

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Trivia

This might be important: "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=106994 93.229.169.65 (talk) 00:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)