The Torture Playlist
Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations—and also drown out screams. Based on a leaked interrogation log, news reports, and the accounts of soldiers and detainees, here are some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose.
Trust me, I just listened to this playlist, and it really is torture. Mixing Tupac into Christina Aguilera into Neil Diamond is really not right. Not right at all.
