In 1989 Janet Jackson released an album “Rhythm Nation 1814”, which also included the single of the same name Rhythm Nation.

The record remains one of the most famous works of the r’n’b musician to this day, despite all this, there are several old laptops that are … allergic to it.

What do we mean? Natural Resonant Frequencies “Rhythm Nation” they create resonance and can cause hard drive failure on some older laptops.

But to be more specific, Raymond Chen, chief software engineer at Microsoft, recently said that his colleagues were noticing that the “Rhythm Nation” music video was crashing on their laptops – and not only that, but the problems they were having. may also collide. collided with spatially neighboring devices. No, this was not a problem with a specific computer model, as even competing products had this problem, and some of them could not play videos at all.

The cause of a particular technical problem was the so-called coordination, what, in terms of sound, happens when the frequency of the music (exciter) it emits is equal to the natural frequency of the vibrating object (oscillator), i.e. exactly what happens when an opera singer breaks a glass with her voice.

As for Rhythm Nation by Janet Jackson, it caused crashes on laptops in use. hard drive 5400 rpm, that is, a laptop about 15 years ago. As Chen explains, to solve the problem, the manufacturer added a filter to the audio receiver that detected and removed the frequencies that caused the problem during playback.

Those of you, of course, who have a specific filter, or a more recent laptop without a “controversial” hard drive, can listen without fear:

According to Rolling Stone.