Marcel Winatschek

Your Conception Song

Porktrack is a website that tells you which song was playing when your parents conceived you. You enter your birthdate and it generates an answer with no hesitation. Mine says Billie Jean by Michael Jackson, which is both perfect and deeply unsettling to know about yourself.

The concept is ridiculous and I’m completely here for it. There’s something pure about an internet project that commits fully to a completely absurd premise without any irony. Just: you were made to this song, here’s the evidence.

The catch is you can’t actually listen to it. GEMA, Germany’s copyright agency, has blocked the audio on basically every track the site pulls. So you learn which song soundtracked your conception but never get to hear it—your parents’ taste in music at that specific moment stays sealed behind decades of licensing law. Your conception song becomes a fact you’ll never quite experience.