Other “mysterious song” stories have hit the news in the past about songs recorded anonymously off the radio. Creator of Lizzo's signature slogan could get a Grammy nod, Drake booed off stage at Tyler the Creator's music festival. Even the basics of the story stand on shifting ground. She said part of it is that she wants the artist to finally get credit. She said the search had been going on long before the internet got involved, as her brother “used to ask friends and people who used to listen to similar music back in the 80s” if they recognized it.
Over the next decade, the excerpt of the song was posted to YouTube a couple times and mentioned on a handful of forums. However, the hunt largely went cold. As one commenter put it, “this is proof positive that all it takes is the right person to see or hear the right thing to break this wide open.”, Use of this Website assumes acceptance of Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy, Published Monday, November 18, 2019 3:30PM EST, Last Updated Monday, November 18, 2019 3:37PM EST, “The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet,”. Watch Queue Queue At the same time, another post was made on a German site called best-of-80s.de containing the same clip and question, posted by a user called “bluuue,” but signed with the pseudonym “Anton.”. The Mysterious Song Reddit group has even been part of solving the origins of other mysterious songs. Many of the leads that the song detectives asked all seemed to get stuck at one roadblock -- without being able to talk to the person who posted the original recording, how could they clarify their questions? 80s ( italo Disco ) This video is unavailable.
Alexandra Mae Jones One is GEMA, a German organization that tracks the licensing of musicians and writers. Although the mystery song could be somewhere on a list of songs played on the radio between 82-84 that might be found on GEMA, it is incredibly difficult to know what to search for without a title or artist for the song -- and it’s not guaranteed that the song would be listed there at all. The most promising lead was when the amateur detectives discovered a DJ who ran the radio show “Musik für junge Leute” during early 80s.
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The idea that it could be a long-con hoax has been proposed on the Reddit thread multiple times before, with Holz being forced to defend herself. She thinks the key is to get the word out to an older audience, people who might not necessarily find a chatroom on the internet discussing a song. Numerous databases have been searched and suggested. THE MOST MYSTERIOUS SONG ON THE INTERNET!
Some of the titles that have been suggested are based on recurring lyrics, such as “Like the Wind,” or “Check it In, Check it Out,” but it’s been pointed out that songs often bear titles that don’t appear in their lyrics at all. The quest may seem trivial to some, but curiosity is a powerful driver. Dubbed 'The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet,' a tune apparently recorded off of a German radio station in the 1980s is the subject of a dramatic, decades-long search for the musicians behind it. Despite the number of people commenting on the Reddit group daily, and the amount of new attention on the case, Holz said she’s worried the investigation is in a rut. And an article posted on Australian music website Tone Deaf describes an eerily similar situation to the mystery song, where a song recorded off of German radio in the mid-80s went unidentified until 2013. She said that it was her younger brother Darius who had recorded the song initially.
The search really got traction when it was covered by popular YouTuber Justin Whang for his “Tales From The Internet” series. Holz said she loves the song itself, and remembers being “amazed” when her brother played it for her the first time. If you were an avid listener of new-wave music in the 1980s and happen to have a good memory, you could help solve a musical mystery that spans decades. Holz has acknowledged that her brother isn’t positive about which radio station and show he recorded the song off of. “I spend way too much time on the quest,” she admitted. To prove her identity, Holz asked sceptics to message the account bluuue on best-of-80s.de, the German site where the song was posted in 2007, preserved in a thread that still exists today.
It would “mean a lot,” to her to find the identity of the song. From the reverb-heavy, much disputed lyrics to the absence of a confirmed song title and performer, the song defies definition. Watch Queue Queue