I will share some interesting facts that I have learned from personal experience with music:
1.) Reversed songs are not just simply a mess being played backwards. They convey distinct moods and personalities just like forward songs. Listening to reversed songs is actually like listening to a whole new song that is played forward. A great example is the song "Ballad of the Goddess" which is the opening theme to the game Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. This is the song "Zelda's Lullaby" played backwards, but is made into a forward song that conveys a distinct mood and personality which is different than the original song.
You can apply the same process to any other song out there as well. Go ahead and apply that process in your mind to the song "Love is a Battlefield" by Pat Benatar. What you will get when you reverse her song is a mood and personality that conveys something dramatic and horrific. You can use an audio software such as Audacity to reverse music.
2.) If you listen to your favorite musical artist such as Michael Jackson's music, then when you go to bed and are in the process of falling asleep, your brain will take all that musical information it has heard and it will create whole new songs by Michael Jackson which are just as good and just as catchy as any other Michael Jackson song. You will hear them pop up in your head when you are in the process of falling asleep since information tends to pop up in your mind during the sleeping process.
You can even make this process happen in your waking life by allowing your brain to focus on creating a whole new song and your brain will automatically create that song for you. This can even apply to the best artists out there such as Beethoven. In other words, you can create the next greatest songs by Beethoven in your own head. The brain is an amazing organ and it is no problem for it to create the next greatest songs. This is a very useful technique to create the greatest songs.
3.) If you listen to a song on a pair of headphones and put the headphones down, then your brain will attempt to create a song out of all that vague muffled noise. It will be a completely different song than the one that was actually there. This is yet another technique to create new songs.
4.) Lyrics don't always go with songs. Some songs can sound sad, but have happy lyrics and vice versa. You can feel a certain way about a song, but for that feeling to not always match up with the type of feeling that the lyrics themselves convey.