{"id":30166,"date":"2022-07-31T07:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T12:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30166"},"modified":"2022-07-30T17:30:52","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T22:30:52","slug":"the-clues-in-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/31\/the-clues-in-the-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Clues in the Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One does not have to go all <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em> or <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/21\/on-national-treasure-2004\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>National Treasure<\/em><\/a> to find clues that will lead to some treasure.  I have discovered some sort of conspiracy or puzzle in popular music across the generations.<\/p>\n<p>So a recent (2019) song from Four80East, &#8220;Cinco Cinco Seis&#8221; has played a bunch on WSIE and DirecTV&#8217;s smooth jazz station many, many times:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5Oa_KUxBm0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In it, they repeat like an electro-jazz numbers station, &#8220;Uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, on the radio, I heard &#8220;Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)&#8221;, the 1998 hit from The Offspring, and <em>it, too, says that number<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QtTR-_Klcq8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>1-2-3-4-5-5-6.  What does it mean?  Some people might say it&#8217;s counting to get the beat before starting music, but <em>the music has already started<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s coordinates.  Or something.<\/p>\n<p>Does the number 480 and the direction East mean anything?<\/p>\n<p>The beginning of &#8220;Pretty Fly (For a White Guy&#8221; samples the beginning of 1983&#8217;s &#8220;Rock of Ages&#8221; by Def Leppard:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4xHy3ngYfWo\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ultimateclassicrock.com\/def-leppard-rock-of-ages-opening-lyrics\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">official account<\/a> (if you can believe the &#8220;official&#8221; story), this made up bit of German-sounding language was, again, designed to be the count for the music to begin&#8211;in this case, the music does begin after the words.  <\/p>\n<p>But are the words a pass phrase?  An indicator that one must start at some point in Germany (a rock?) and go east 480&#8230;. something?  Is 1234556 the password, proving that the people who have hidden vast treasure in Germany or Eastern Europe were as bad at passwords as people on the Internet?<\/p>\n<p>The clues came out in 1983, 1998, and 2019.  Will the next clue come out in a little over 20 years?  I cannot wait that long.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone needs me, I will be in a room in the basement, posting photos and text and drawing arrows between them until I solve this mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One does not have to go all The Da Vinci Code or National Treasure to find clues that will lead to some treasure. I have discovered some sort of conspiracy or puzzle in popular music across the generations. 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