Everyone Knows That | The Story of The Most Mysterious Song on The Internet Pt. II 

UPDATE: so of course as soon as I release this video the Ani’s Other Channel re-lists the video 😆. Here is the link and all the evidence I could not show can be found here for your perusing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0arERjT_0Z0.html Links to Streaming of my remake of Everyone Knows That, if you fancy (and thanks for watching regardless 😊 ) --- SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/album/1BK1JCQqNyFQXWukaou5e9?si=JQCXS9M7QiCqc9pBzZlyAw APPLE MUSIC: music.apple.com/us/album/everyone-knows-that-ulterior-motives-single/1701429853 RU-vid MUSIC: music.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ubf7k0F1Isk.html&feature=share BANDCAMP (donations appreciated!): natestpatrick.bandcamp.com/track/everyone-knows-that-ulterior-motives RU-vid UPLOAD: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2IJ-VSTSTp8.html

1980: this will be a great song and everyone will love it! 2023: what song is this?

It's ironic that the song is titled "Everyone Knows That" but nobody knows that song exists that everyone has ulterior motives to search for it.

as someone who really likes ARGs, i have my doubts that this is one mainly because, especially for a first clue, there'd be some kind of hook, or some prior video context, it wouldn't just be "hey here's a weird lost song" plus, by now there would have been some update, even if it's just another clue

If this ends up being an arg I’ll be severely upset

As an automotive fan, i'm pretty sure the saleen theory is false. Saleen wasn't exactly a car company, but a car modifier. They worked with different brands, mainly Ford, and made special high performance and sportier version of already existing cars. they made a couple original cars, like the S5 and the S7 in the late 2000s but they're lesser known supercars. a Mcdonald collab between Saleen and McDonald seems extremely weird, very out of place, because of the brand's obscurity during that time period.

Watching this with hindsight is actually hilarious. “Uhh I don’t remember where I got it” lmao.

Did you know: The original boombox image was from a listing on a selling website, and was extended with ai.

Its fucking found! (No pun intended)

the proof of the song is already in the thumbnail itself

it's eerie how familiar the song sounds

i desperately need this to be found as a full song because it goes hard :')

Imagine if Carl92 replied back with "nvm i found it" 😂

wow, i really like your version of this!! and no worries about the comments about the car commercial, they have been documented in other videos covering this song

It sounds to me like a song written and sang in English by people who are not native speakers. I used to work as a college writing tutor and the slightly odd phrasing and pronunciation is what makes me think that.

The answer is always porn

Well, it didn’t appear in a commercial.

I love how people associate this song with pink! the color fits so much.

Everyone assumes it’s probably something from an english source but maybe it’s from a japanese city pop artist who spoke english for a small part of a song

The thumbnail hits different now

i want this to be a real song so bad and not just another ARG 😭

The dead link was a channel called Jay Kay she used the channel to document every lost media song that she found to be relevant, but her channel got terminated due to a false copyright strike

Rad version of the song, rad video. Love your stuff!

i had a very vivid dream about this lost media. i have only ever listened to it once, found out it was a lost song and moved on but then i had my weird dream. the dream itself was very surreal, i walked out to my deck where my parents (who looked like mannequins with wigs and 80's casual clothes) were sitting there unmoving and in the middle was the radio, menacingly just playing the song, i asked my dad what he was listening to and he told me the name AND the title and i got excited to go look it up and share it with the internet, safe to say in my dream i did find the song and i tried to will myself many a time to remember who it was by and such but all i remember is that the title was not actually any of the lyrics, the guy's name started with an E and his last had a P in it, and the title was fairly long and when i looked it up i was like "theres no way im remembering all of this when i wake up" and the funniest part is everything else BUT the songs name and creator remain vivid as daylight in my memory also im not sure that my dream is in any way helpful or a reliable source of info but i do have a tendency to have glimpses of the nearish future in my dreams fairly often so take this as you will

this for sure came from a commercial. but him being from spain i dont know how common that practice was over there since it to this day exists in japan to have well known artists make one off covers, songs for 15/30 second ad spots (the nescafe excella ads come to mind, songs were commissioned but never released in full and are technically lost media). if they use the mts format i would start searching there. but it wouldnt explain how this guy got that recording unless it is a spanish ad from the very very early 90s, then digitized in 2000. you have to keep in mind that post 95 the eurodance movement was in full swing and advertisers wouldnt be caught DEAD doing anything that sounded like the 80s new wave scene. that narrows the search down to at the latest the early 90s probably around 93 and earliest 84, since the sequencer for the drums was released that year. the other big possibility is this being an airing of a demo of an unsigned band on public access. as i cannot imagine any major label allowing an unreleased track be played in full on tv, and especially not from a major label artist UPDATE: did some research, the hum present in the vocaroo file pretty much confirms this was done in an ntsc country. so this brings the list of places down to, north & south america, the philipines, myanmar, taiwan, south korea and japan. all of europe is pal. so that strikes out the theory that this was recorded there.

It can't be from a commercial that didn't air because the op stated clearly that the song was recorded from an old VHS tape. You can't record commercials that don't air... In the tail end of the 80's, when the Mall Scene really exploded, it was common for high end malls to employ pop music artists to record songs for their commercials. If this isn't ARG, then I'd bet my bottom dollar that it was in fact from a commercial for a mall. It would be worth finding out where op resides, then search archives for commercials specifically from that area.

that bass slaps so hard, i need the whole thing. very new wave/pop 80s sounding, i need moreeee

Composer: i made this song Composer today: uhh what is this again?

Carl, what have you done.

I think the relevance of the pilot tone in the song is that the OP recorded it off their TV

1:47 living with the constant reminder that i thought ''Pheobe Solas - World of Lies'' was a real song (im ektenthusiast)

I feel like this is from another universe and we were never supposed to hear it

2:10 “Late night exercise” is one way of calling it..

I don’t really understand why people are assuming by default that it’s for a commercial tho? like obviously it was some thing from TV but it could’ve just been part of something from an obscure made for tv movie/short lived tv show. Promo bumper for a channel station etc.

Has anyone tried the song "Everyone Knows" by Vivian Johaneson? I can't find it anywhere, but if anyone has it it could be worth a try.

My goofy ahh pfp with the fake proposal from 42 days ago 1:32 💀

it’s from an alternate universe and it accidentally slipped into our reality there problem solved

they found it! From... Interesting place.... called corn, but with p

Am I the only one that hears "you're counting on a shift in the skies" because that makes way more sense

0:13 The irony of that clip, considering what it's zoomed on and where EKT was found (in a p#rno)

what if the lyrics are a methaphor on how this song is fake? you count sheep when you need to fall asleep (and perhaps dream), and the Internet itself is kinda "a world of lies", so maybe the ulterior motives are from carl92? (his motive was to get this song recognized, but what if he MADE the song? Then his "ulterior motive" for posting that would be to make the internet go crazy about it, wouldn't it?)

Saleen has already been contacted and ruled out! [I was the one that brought attention to that thread initially so sorry]

To me it sounds like a song that would be played in a movie when there's a disco scene

Weird to think that the full cassette/cd that it came from is probably just sitting in somebodies garage in storage

I guess I’ll be adding your song to my Apple Music playlist It’s a banger btw 👍👍👍

My question is this: the snippet we hear was broadcast on TV and recorded to a computer. Where does the tape hiss/analog aspect come from? Computers are digital, so there'd be no tape hiss. Would such a low fidelity version be broadcast on TV? (The tape hiss I refer to is heard in other videos about the song. As it presented here, it sounds like it's been cleaned up a bit.)

It’s ironic because no one knows that song

This would be an amazing marketing strategy for an indie artist

So i got some news bucko

I JUST WANT TO LISTEN TO THE FULL THING ITS SO GOOD!!!! 😭😭😭😭

I guess it's some royalty-free music

A while ago I was making these Preshows for my friends for movie nights, which included music videos, shorts, and commercials. I downloaded one bit of a commercial which had used this music. No idea what the channel was, or if it was the original audio. But yeah, didn't know it was this big

not this video being an advertisement for his song 💀💀

I love this song so much, i hope it gets found!

I have an unidentified version/cover of Spin Doctors - Two Princes on my channel

This is driving me crazy I feel like I've heard this song somewhere in like GTA vc or some movie set in the 80s

*“LIKE THE WIND” - lyrics* [Verse 1] Like the wind You came here runnin' Take the consequence of livin' There's no space There's no tomorrow There's no sense communication [Chorus] Check it in, check it out, or the sun will never shine A long dirty way in the subways of your mind [Verse 2] Like the wind You're goin' somewhere Let a smile be your companion There's no place And there's no sorrow In a young and restless dreamer [Chorus] Check it in, check it out, or the sun will never shine A long dirty way in the subways of your mind [Instrumental Bridge] [Chorus] Check it in, check it out, or the sun will never shine A long dirty way in the subways of your mind [Outro] Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real excuse Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues [Alternative Outro 1] Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real you Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real you Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real you Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues Tear it in, tear it out, it's the real you Check it in, check it out, it's the summer blues [Alternative Outro 2] Check it in, check it out with the Sun or Moon Tear it in, tear it out if they're reading you Check it in, check it out with the Sun or Moon Tear it in, tear it out if they're reading you Check it in, check it out with the Sun or Moon Tear it in, tear it out if they're reading you Check it in, check it out with the Sun or Moon Tear it in, tear it out if they're reading you Check it in, check it out

Apparently they found it yesterday

I live in Ontario Canada, and the very first moment I heard this song I instantly knew I heard it in my youth. I know it wasn't a song on the radio or cassette tape, and I know it wasn't on a early computer game. I only had access to three channels growing up, and I'm convinced I heard it on television. I would say around 1988 And I hear "you're carried on a ship in the sky" I also hear scratchy sounds as if someone was using a recorder to record the song from something like a television and brushed against the mic

Odd how those other copies/uploads of this song seem to have disappeared. There’s a small chance I saved the link to one of them, although I might have instead saved it to the “watch later” playlist in which case it may have been auto-removed.

on the radio, i heard a quiz for who made the song or whats the title of the song. i heard a song that had a singer who sounded really close to everyone knows that. they said the song was in the musical the wedding singer

4:42 the pink jukebox isnt this "ani's" work, its from an ayesha erotica ep

It was found! You should upload the updated video.

Ok, so that TV tone appears on TONS of records. Appears a lot of studios had TV monitors running for whatever reason. So this doesn't mean the song was made for TV. And I think they're counting all the shapes in the sky, rather than sheep. As in the shapes that the clouds make.

4:49 i think people are abusing the copyright system again

Now that Fond my mind isn't a Lost Media anymore, this should be the 2nd most mysterious song in the net!

I love the sound of this song, the mystery of it is so eerie I love it!! (Edit) if this is an arg I won’t be happy at all

I have a theory, maybe this song wasn’t supposed to be out, at least not now. I think maybe it could have been to a tv pilot, due to the lyrics making me think it could be for a tv show, maybe a teen show. Maybe it could even have been dumped online when the pilot wasn’t picked up. I mean I don’t think TV shows just get jingles for a pilot, but maybe the show got into production a little but before not being picked up or canceled. I mean I’d try seeing if any network stations have old pilots or unaired shows that could have it. And it could make sense why nobody heard it nor if an artist is unaware of it. The lyrics seem intentional, like to go along with a plot or a storyline.

In the middle of Shiny Happy People the song is gonna sound a bit like the music but not like the lyrics.

My grandparents house have hundreds of cds, cassettes, and tapes of music, I think one day I might look in their basement specifically for this song, maybe…

My Theory : Tears for Fears was probably the artist behind this mysterious piece.

Not only is it mysterious, but it geniunely hits hard for some reason

Could you imagine if it’s like some Scientology promo video 😂

Some where in the deepest depths of the internet is a song

Well, well, well..

"Everyone Knows That/Ulterior Motives" was found to be a demo for "Good Karma" by Roxette

I think it could be a song from GTA radio

To me the part where people think the singer says "Ulterior Motives" to me can also be heard as "A theory in/of motion". I don't know how significant they is, but considering we only have a 17 second clip of this song, every detail is significant.

If only he knew...

I'm actually friends with Ani through Discord. They usually upload Vocaloid lost media now

Really hope this song gets found. Such a banger 🔥

The singer sounds alot like Romeo void, though my mom says it could be a cover, she doesn't recognize those words. The obvious thing could be that it wasn't mainstream, which does make it harder.

This song loves rent free in my head.

Everyone knows that my brain is completely empty!!!!!

Saleen is pronounced "Say-Leen" by the way. And they weren't much of a standalone car brand. Their thing was essentially gutting Ford vehicles, tuning their engines and putting new bodies on. So I'm not 100% sure if they would have TV commercials since it's not like their products were widespread or sold in large numbers.

Found

Could this be from some made for TV movie?

I was dying of laughter by the time the third piece of evidence you mentioned disappeared off the internet LOL

What if its from a movie and thats why we cant find it, some random 80s. Movies arnt strangers to having bangers, scotty doesnt know and scott pilgrim vs the world ruined a generation of women come to mind

I've been with the search since 2021, while I haven't been active with it. Its amazing how it just... suddenly gained a massive following and I'm all here for it, best of luck for those who go searching for it.

I bet it's some content creator that AI generated an 80s song as some sort of "social experiment"

Everyone start asking your parents or smthn lol

If this was an actual Ad, how come nobody remembers hearing this in the 80s? to confirm this myth? I mean some should be able to tell that they heard this couple times back in the day. Just like i remember all the commercial music still they played in the TV from 2001 that are no longer accessible, however i can still recall them deep in my head to this exact day.

It’s not real AINT nobody getting copy right claimed for it being in every video 😅

I love how everyone's sitting here asserting their pet theories, no matter how debunked (Roxette) or racist ("sounds foreign, so must be Japanese because only Asians can be foreign") as utter truth.

Please make a video about "fond my mind"

its not the most mysterious song, Blind The Wind is.

I don’t know how people thinks it’s a Japanese artist, the singer sounds british that why I think it’s boy George, he sounds just like this and this fits his vibe.

Dude ever since i first heard that other liminal, it was uncanny. Now theres two??

i showed this to my mom and she said it sounded similar to the song girls on film, like it was sampled or something. Idk if that helps or anything, but thats what my mom said (my mom was way into music in the 80s/90s so I often ask her help in identifying older songs)