HLWIT: A Lost Song Shrouded In Mystery
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- čas přidán 8. 10. 2023
- HLWIT has been found and identified as ‘How Long’ by Paula Toledo
Listen here: • How Long Will It Take ...
In this video we look through a song which has lived in mystery for almost 16 years now... hope you enjoy :)
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HLWIT has been finally found and identified as “How Long” by Paula Toledo.
Link to full song in description :D
Let’s go!!!
Nice
If we can Find This song then we can find “everyone knows that” ‼️‼️
"Dance For Hours A Day/Dance Floor Was His Name" is next, I'm praying. If this song can be found after 16 years, and "Kenyan Worship" as well this week, then I have hope we find more before the year ends
Yes!
i can only imagine some dude is playing this lost song normally, not knowing they might be the only person to ever know it's existence
@@stevenedwards8353 yeah. I thought that same way with "everyone knows that", like someone might be listening to the original regularly not knowing they might be the only one to know it's details and probably don't know that there are millions searching for it
Everyone says that on every lost song you're not clever
@@Disbanded9998I wasn't trying to be clever, I was simply saying my thoughts. No need to be rude.
@@Disbanded9998you’re not clever either bud
@@Disbanded9998 Sorry to hear your parents were siblings.
This is not a drill: The song has been found!!!!!
Paula Toledo - How Long (2005)
Congrats to everyone involved with the search!
THANK YOU 🙏🏻
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Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
THX i loved how it sounded
Lost music fascinates me the most. Almost everyone listens to music, and people have made music for thousands of years. Just think how much music has been lost to the sands of time. Someone out there has to know these songs, maybe they're just unaware it's lost
there are so many songs geing made most of them are lost, ts like grabbing one random drawing with 0 views posted to deviantart 10 years ago and asking people if they know who drew it
@@acacacacacacaccaca7666its even crazier for old obscure music, at least with music online theres a chance for basically anyone online to find it. If an artist published something back in the day through a label that went out of business or simply doesnt want to go through the effort of uploading an obscure artists music, theres a huge possibility that not even 1 of their songs would reach the internet.
@Brenden_Marshallit's not a genre lol
@@tristan_840 he means type
@@acacacacacacaccaca7666only difference is you could reverse search the image, and there would be traces of it. The same cannot be said for these songs
For me, these considered "lost music" are indie music that has small fanbases in the year it was released. I'm still hopeful that someone will recognize these lost media.
I can guarantee that as I used to have a studio promo of select songs of artists that came through and recorded there. Well, not only did I lose the CD, the bands I contacted years later, no longer had any of THEIR albums saved. Talk about fucking lost.
Yeah I have a mix cd from a tiny music festival I went to, only one of the artists included are still active and the only one still "active" hasn't done anything since early 2020
@@Calc_Ulator I knew a guy whose band put out an album in the 1960's. Surviving albums are rare. He lost his few copies decades ago, and he can't afford to buy one himself (neither can I, sadly). Salt on the wound here-when the label went under, someone cleared out the studio by placing all their inventory on the curb. This included what was probably a few hundred copies of his album. It's nice to think they were salvaged, but likely, most were picked up as trash.
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Don't follow the worldly trends follow Jesus Christ today
There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today
Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell
Come to Jesus Christ today
Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
John 3:16-21
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
Mark 1.15
15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Hebrews 11:6
6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Jesus
Dude what IS IT with lost songs having hilariously ironic names?
Like, "Everyone knows that" (Nobody knows that), "How long will it take" (How long will it take to find this lost song), etc.
Like the wind, just unknown...
So totally insane cuz it's driving me insane
(even though it's solved as The gallery - Little islands i wanted to make this dumb joke)
Or Couldn't Catch You Now (Couldn't Catch that song Now....)
It proves life has a twisted sense of humour
or wear your true colors (tell me what the song is)
never heard this one, but i gasped and said "oh my god" upon hearing it. it's beautiful. it's so perfectly late-90s.
Do you like Sixpence None The Richer? That is still my idea of perfect soft pop-rock sound from 1995-2004. Similar to this Lostwave.
@@De19thKingJulion YES
@@De19thKingJulion it also kind of reminds me of Breathless by The Corrs
@@BettyhtespaghettiYes!! I was thinking of the corrs
It also gives off Duvet by Bôa
This is the same vibe as that "like the wind" one from the 80s. A song that is very well done, and almost has a melancholic feel to the lyrics and sound. Like it was meant to be lost. I hope it's found because it's really good from what I heard.
Love that one
This one's been found - How Long by Paula Toledo. Like The Wind is still lost, but hopefully one day it'll be found, along with a higher quality recording!
these unknown songs makes me feel sad
They creep me out
Same. I just wish we could figure out who created both this, EKT, La Cancion De Alicia, Like the Wind, and many other examples I haven't named.
They just exist
Nobody knows anything the songs just exist
@@kstrofii la cancion de alicia is actually under the stars and the (cover) artist is richardvox
Bad idea:
Everyone just constantly use the song until someone copyright strikes you
Shang jokes about that with some of his lost music videos. Like, I’ll take one for the team if it gets us an answer!
CZcams is a DMCA hellscape so if this ever gets a strike, it will be a scammer who noticed the song was unknown and figured that made it free real estate.
Right? I was thinking the same thing.
@@generatoralignmentdevalue Well in that case we have a name we can spread as a scammer
But then again I don't know if that'll work unless someone like Mutahar bitches about it to youtube on twitter
@@generatoralignmentdevalueYep. False copyright claims have happened To The Most Mysterious Song of the Internet (Like the Wind).
I also get that "off" feeling about songs with seemingly no origin. They have no beginning date for production, nor do they have an end date, or even an artist attached to them, they merely just "exist" in our realm.
This video was absolutely fascinating! You will definitely reveal this mystery to many more people and I hope that it will eventually be found!
Well, a new snippet has been found: czcams.com/video/ax8qqq7lJsQ/video.html
Well, this song was just found, so is that feeling still there?
This doesnt sound creepy at all, it just gives me an incredible sense of melancholy
That artists like this could go unnoticed?
It sounds like the kind of stuff they'd play on the MTV indie segments at 1AM back in the late 90s. No happy songs allowed!
Ye same
Not gonna lie sounds like a sad love song by Taylor swift 🤷♀️
@@alexr2520 but imo better than taylor swift.
Totally sounds like something you'd hear in a mall food court in the late 90's/early 2000's
This song was solved! It is from 2005 and the artist is Paula Toledo. It is called "How Long"!
It’s actually from 2004.
@@okjeffy6581It was initially thought to be made in 2005, since it was used in a 2005 film and was found in a 2005 Canadian radio recording. However, Paula or someone else said this song was recorded in 2003 or 2004 (most likely 2004).
Back in 2022, a Reddit user was looking for Paula Toledo - How Long? on internet. He heard this song from a Canadian TV show called “15!Love” in mid-2000s. He couldn’t find this song anywhere on internet, so he made a Reddit post about it. During the same year, someone helped him find the song by giving him a link to a radio recording which includes the full song.
Which Epiosde?
Lost songs always give me existential dread. I don't know why, but their existence are so... strange for me.
The fact that someone made a song, as in like ACTUALLY worked and had thought put into it, just for it to become unknown, is just crazy. Not only that, but the artist/band members could still be alive, uncertain about the fact that this song is a mystery. Even if the artist/band members would be dead, there are still at least a few people that know the song's original title and composer, and (most likely) heard the entire song.
That's how it is for any lost media, not just music. Someone could have a copy of the respective piece without even realising it, and probably thinking that everyone knows about it.
I don't know, lost media is so interesting. I really hope this song is found! It sounds AMAZING, it really gives me summer vibes, like something my sister and I would listen in 2016.
you AINT gonna believe this
It reminds me of a cross between The Cranberries [edit: ha, I just got to the reference to Dolores O'Riordan] and The Sundays...
Thanks for covering this one. Hadn't actually heard of this one before!
The song sounds familiar to me, but not because I've heard the song before, but because it sounds like something the band "Bôa" would've made (the creators of the Serial Experiments Lain theme). I looked through all of their songs as well as unreleased songs that I was able to find and was unable to find a match to this.
Hopefully this song gets found eventually (especially after it being spotlighted like this).
OMG I JUST COMMENTED THAT ‼️ I AGREE
It sounds like a combination of the cranberries and bôa
Edit: a lot like Alanis Morissette too
Glad someone mentioned bôa! This sounds eerily similar to that band
LAIN!!!!
Bôa said that they didn't make this song, from what I know.
This song was actually used as credit song in a movie called Secret Lives (2005). The full movie was available on CZcams four months ago and had more than 900,000 views before the full song was found.
900k people have listened to the song but never knew it was losted
I love the frutiger aeroness of this channel
Oh hello
Bro you literally predicted the next video.
Another local band produced a demo, got a tiny bit of airplay on their college/independent radio station, and quietly disbanded. Meanwhile, some dudes making bootleg DVDs rip the song and use it for the menus.
This is going to be a fun search.
This is the first time I'm hearing about this mysterious song. I hope it's found, it's really good from the small clip we have. "Everyone Knows That" does have that kind of "song from a commercial or background of a tv show/movie" vibe.
I genuinely don't have a feeling about this song other then happiness. I used to have a teddybear as a child named Cookiedough and I think I still have it buried somewhere. It looked almost exactly like that teddybear, the exact teddybear known to be associated with the song from the first upload. It had the brown and white dots on the feet, and the beige snout. This song gives me the most amount of nostalgia and comfort I have ever felt. I hope this gets found.
I used to have a teddy bear when I was little too. It was tall and more thin looking though i called it mousie because it had big ears lol. I've been still trying to find this song.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who gets some sense of nostalgia out of this song, it’s so calming and reminds me of my childhood, the visual with the teddy bear is also very comforting
this made me cry for some reason
hello!! you might be aware of this already but in case you are not the song was found a few weeks ago! its called "How Long" by Paula Toledo :3
@@user-ou5dx1su3m OH DANG TYSM!!! im so glad this was found! thank you for notifying me!
This song gives me 'Lifetime Movie' vibes. Probably one of those unaccredited ending credit songs.
Yup my mom would watch those movies a lot back in the day. That's how i heard and found a song by Liz Phair called Why Can't I?.
Same
So it turns out, it was an unaccreditted ending credit song for a lifetime movie 😅
How did he know 😭
@@itzlucaaa6789 😏😏
Most songs get lost or unidentified because of:
-Popular music: like ''in the pines''. The song is just singed by different generations and both the original version and the author become obscure.
-Radio recordings: like ''like the wind'' most times people would cut the title of the song from recordings, making this songs in my opinion the most difficult to search.
-Decredited songs: like ''one drive''. They are songs that people think are from some artists, mainly a big one like the beatles or radiohead, but it's from another unknown artist.
-Limited distribution: near my house there's a church where once, some people created an album to promote the neighborhood. I'm one of the few persons who have the cd of the album, making it almost impossible to access to any person who doesn't know the window of time and the location.
-P2P: this nets allow people to download archives that people upload. Most bands actually decredited themselves so people would listen to their music. As far as we know, ''White trash'' was never credited and people start posting it like a nu metal famous band's because they never knew. This nets aren't archive and were pretty obscure.
-General desinteres: There's a youtuber called Sheiki that makes videos in spanish and talked about several unidentified songs on a video. Most of those songs were identified in hours. This shows that some songs became lost or unidentified and remain, because most people just doesn't care and just will if people present them with those.
-Others: like they are demos, amateur music, recorded from the street or a gig, they are to old, they come from obscure media... etc.
I know this is unrelated to the video but can you post the album?
kinda curious now,, could you upload the album ?
just imagine an alternate reality where there's a lost snippet of Rap God and not a single person can find the original song
In this alternate reality, the fast rapping part of rap god is considered uncanny and unsettling by people who listen to it
In this alternate reality, Rap God is the equivalent of EKT, and thousands have attempted to search for it, but nothing could be found
If rap god was a lost song, who would bother finding it
Wish it was lost. Eminem is a tool. Makes an entire song called "Tone Deaf" literally saying "I'm glad I'm an ignorant blithering simpleton"
And he doesn't even know that combining words isn't the same as rhyming them. "Bornana" wtf.
@@SpiralPoliFemboyThis is definitely the comment of time
Going of the radio recording information my guess is it was on some sort of radio show or event that focused on local music which in turn might give us a bit of a clue on why it would be used for a bootleg DVD. It'd be much simpler to evade copyright lawsuits (or at least avoid multiple at once) if they utilized music of a local group that likely wasn't signed to a record label or if they were would be less likely to have funds for a legal team to fight them.
Except I'm sure whatever company owns the rights to the actual movie on the DVD would love to sue whoever burned it for every penny they'll ever earn given half a chance.
Im the guy who originally posted that information, and I agree with this
A new clip / part of the song has just been found on another DVD: czcams.com/video/ax8qqq7lJsQ/video.html 🎉
HLWIT FOUND!! How Long by Paula Toledo!! I never would’ve been here for this if I hadn’t watched this video, thank you!!
The singer reminds me a lot of the vocalist for the opening to Serial Experiments Lain..."Duvet" by Bôa, I think? I'm sure I'm just imagining it, but I get the same feeling from the lost song as I do listening to that track.
I would chalk up that unsettling feeling when hearing lost songs to the fact that "everything must have come from somewhere" is a widely accepted principle of our world, and lost songs defy that principle. It would be like finding a person randomly in the street, but they don't have a name, they don't have any relatives, none of their clothes have any tags to indicate brands, they have no form of identification on them, there are no publicly accessible records of that specific person ever existing, and as far as you know, they have no connections to anyone else in the world and no one else even knows they exist. There's no indication or justifiable reason that they should exist in the first place because as far as you're concerned, they have no origin; they're just kinda there, forever roaming the streets unnoticed and unknown. It would certainly be an eerie experience to put it lightly, and I would have to assume that that's what listening to these songs with no apparent origin feels like. It's just wrong somehow.
It appears to be a typical scenario for a band from the past - they produced one record and then disbanded without creating additional music. This is often the case.
Or maybe it was some MySpace exclusive song by a band and now it’s lost forever
It's sorta funny but the more I learn about lostwave the less it feels creepy and the more it feels... Sort of hopeful? Yes it's sad these songs were lost in the first place but the fact that years later there are still people holding into them, loving them, introducing new people to them, and trying to track down the artists to finally give credit where it's due... That's beautiful to me. Despite everything, the music persists and impacts people. I'd love to make art that resonates with someone like that.
Incredibly gorgeous song. Can't believe it's not been found.
sounds nostalgic like im sifting through the staticy radio stations on my crappy mp3 player on a road trip when i was a kid
Hearing Shai try to sing the extra lyrics gave me life tbh
Solved! Paula Toledo - “How Long”
'lostwave'/lost music has recently become my favorite subgenre of lost media, and I'd love to see more lost music videos from this channel. I think it's so fascinating the way tracks like this can just exist out there and nobody has any idea who made them or where they came from
same
Try not to lose hope. I have a friend who died years ago. He was in the US Air Force band back in the 60s.
He had boxes and boxes of tapes that were recordings of when he played.
I was fortunate to have listen to them, and now they are no longer available. It's forever lost media.
So there's hope that it exists somewhere. Although I have my theories of what this song came from.
It definitely gives me 90s-early 00s vibes, like the kind of stuff id listen to in the car on the radio as a kid.
Alanis Morisette is my first thought personally but The Cranberries are also very close for sure.
Also great video! Keep it up ☺️
It's definitely not Alanis Morissette, she's got more of a gravelly tone to her voice. I was a huge Alanis fan in the 00s so I'm pretty sure I could recognise her voice. 🫢 It sound a lot more like the The Cranberries, or just in general it sounds like it's from the 90s-00s female pop/rock artist wave. Which Alanis was a part of, so yeah, definitely not far off in any case!
Also sounds like Andrea Corr from The Corrs also there is some back up vocals in this and it could be any one of the other members from that band singing in the back or it sounds like Aly and Aj too. I like the Cranberries pick too i'm a early 2000's kid so this song hits me in the feels it reminds me of PS1, Old Cartoon Network, and early internet themes and phone ringtones lol. Edit: i think this song was probably supposed to be used for 90's inspirational company commercials or hold music and got scrapped at the last second or it could be royalty free or on a site like Warner Chappell Music/Sound Arsenal and someone found it online somehow and then put it on a Dvd.@@lindanimated
literally my first two guesses
10:01 It sounds like something made during the 90s to me. A lot of alt-rock made during the 90s had the sort of dreamy, ethereal atmosphere that HLWIT makes you feel. In particular, it sounds similar to indie bands from the early 90s (including, as you mentioned, the Cranberries), although it could also possibly originate from the late 90s. Also, it sounds like it was originally recorded onto a cassette before it was used for the DVD menu. Artifacts typically found in cassette recordings can be heard, such as distortion and pitch shifting. This would make it highly unlikely to have been recorded in the 2000s.
Great video btw!
Oh my god. I heard same snippet of this song in a russian bootleg DVD with cartoons (shrek, ratatouille etc). Looping in menu. Unfortunately I don't have access to it now.
I guess bootleggers back then just used same template, which contains this snippet.
And it's not just a familiar song to me. It's literally the same snippet, it's just stuck in my head. The exact same howling distorted beginning, but ended after 38 seconds instead of 57.
The movies on this DVD officialy released no later than 2007
I really hope this gets found. it sounds awesome & I would love to hear more from this band
News flash
deffo sounds late 90s , honestly it sounds so almost vivid & i believe this whole song can be found if more people know its lost tbh
LOVE this channel so much. Great stories, great narration. Remember finding your picsmics4 video over the summer while hanging out at a city Starbucks one morning and have genuinely good memories of just relaxing and playing your videos back to back on a chill day. Thanks for that!
it’s eerie people put time and effort into a song just for it to be lost media
FINALLY this beautiful song is getting coverage :D
this song isn't even scary at all , it's nostalgic and just screams early-mid 2000s
Why are all These lost songs always so fire lmao. Like every single time the music is always good af.
I imagine no one bothers to track down the shitty ones lmao
@@catgirlweed0420LMFAOO
Lost music is something I've only just recently found out about. I absolutely love the mystery of it.
Can you please do a video on "I Ran Over the Taco Bell Dog"? It was passed around on Limewire back and the day, and I've seen it credited to many people: Cheech and Chong, Weird Al Yankovic, Robin Williams, but it's definitely none of them. As far as I know, the original creator is completely unknown.
Maybe it was made by Tim and Mark? A lot of other people have seemed to experience the same on Limewire I saw. Don't know much about the true owner of the song, however maybe it could be them.
the singing at 12:30 was beautiful
So many obscure songs online we know nothing about.
This song sounds SO much like the Cranberries, it's really hard for me to picture any other band making it. Its pure distilled Cranberries (pun unintentional). So its either got to be a lost Cranberries demo or a Cranberries-inspired/tribute band.
Omg yes the first time I listened to it something felt very familiar and I couldn’t put my finger on it😭 now that you mentioned The Cranberries it’s very much their vibe
I think out of all of Lost Media, music is my favorite. Cause they are all bangers!
I'm not sure I buy into the speculation that our new Alexx is the same person as Alexandro- Alexx clearly doesn't speak english as a first language but Alexandro on the forum spoke in a lot more of a casual way that an English speaker would. On top of this we also have no idea where Kieron heard this track which could potentially be a different source from either of our Alex's. If we really do have multiple places where this song could have been heard I think there's a very solid chance this one gets found.
i have two theories on the origin of this song.
1. it was played on a radio showcasing small or local artists and this artist unfortunately did not gain a lot of traction and therefore the songs origins became lost
or
2. it WAS a song by the cranberries (or similar) that was teased on the radio but for whatever reason never got released. if it was this, i feel like more people would remember this band having an unreleased song
otherwise im not sure haha
1 - Could be possible!
2 - I don’t know… they sound kinda close!
@@retrosampleguyPaula Toledo- How Long
I've been waiting so long for this lostwave to get traction i could find maybe like a handful of people talking about it for the longest time, its my favorite lost song ever and I cant wait until the full thing is found. I swear I'll be listening to it on repeat forever. Also its not creepy at all (at least to me), the lyrics are very profound and relatable
It's been found and exactly as I guessed it was hiding in plane sight the entire time in some quiet dark forgotten corner of the internet.
In Brazil we have the puzzling case a of a 30-second excerpt of a instrumental used as a kid's show opening that has been searched for a decade. Unlike most unidentified songs that were barely played anywhere this one first appeared in 1985 and then was played daily from 1993 to 2019 on the 2nd largest network of the country. Millions of people across generations heard the song but nobody can name it to this day. It's surely the most heard unknown song of the world. Its been called 'Chapolin Polka', 'Abertura Chapolin' or 'Chapolin BGM'. There are articles and posts detailing the search effort. The song itself it's possibly not of brazilian origin.
ETK lead:
My mom said she heard ETK (ulterior motives) on VOCM radio Gander. She knows it’s the one because it would play “50 times a day”. For anyone wondering, that’s Gander Newfoundland.
i can't believe we found it.
Am relatively new to this song, am very happy it has finally been identified and reunited with its owner.
IT GOT FOUND!!!!!
Dude, You wouldn’t believe it! You should check the song out now, because it’s just been found! Correct pitch and all. The Artist is apparently named Paula Toledo, and was made in 2005. It’s the real deal! There’s a video on CZcams for it!
i love how eveytime there's lost music there's always a specific picture that we associate with it
This reminds me of Michael Jackson’s “song” Sexy Lady. I remember there being a whole post about him not making the song but it’s clearly his voice ? Idk maybe he has covered it but I can’t remember who did!
Found! Paula Toledo - “How Long”
Holy crap I thought you were joking but it's real 🤯🤯
kenya dance and now how long will it take, december is a great month for lost wave!@@Mikoo1123
I listened to "emotions" a lostwave record from the Quake radio station in San Francisco in 1982 and posted 30 years later while listening to it reminds me being in Japan, China or Chinatown, San Francisco in the 1980s that feeling "off" and catchy and it haven't been identified for 40+ years is just crazy.😮😮😮 What?!
Good news everyone: Another part of the track has been discovered not too long ago. Thank you so much for this video. I believe it truly helped people find it.
Link please?. If you're talking about the video from Sawbaka many people i think have already seen it.
@@user-qc6gi6pl8e Yup, that's the one.
Where?
Yes! More lostwave content!
SONG HAS BEEN FOUND ❤🎉🧸🧸
it's so cool to watch this now with it being found
Imagine hearing this song in the dark
Kinda wholesome that he keeps a notepad of subscriber suggestions
this is definitely my new favorite lost song. the sadness coupled with the fact that nobody knows where it came from is so haunting. (and the fact that it resurfaced in 2018, the year of dolores o’riordan’s death makes it even more sad.)
when i first heard it, it reminded me of a song you’d here in one of those late 90s/early 00s CW teen drama shows like dawsons creek.
i’d also like to know the process of the person choosing to put the song in a bootleg dvd of a 1800s period piece of all things. where did they get it and why did they choose that song for a seemingly unrelated movie?
Also it sounds like Andrea Corr from The Corrs also there is some back up vocals in this and it could be any one of the other members from that band (The Corrs) or The Cranberries singing in the back or it sounds like Aly and Aj too. I like the Cranberries pick too i'm a early 2000's kid this song hit me in the feels reminds me of PS1, Old Cartoon Network, and early internet themes and phone ringtones lol. Edit: i think this song was probably supposed to be used for company commercials or hold music maybe got scrapped though and someone found it online somehow through sites like Sound Arsenal for example and then put it on a Dvd. Could be radio too though I guess. I think the reason why it was on the Dvd was because someone heard it and thought the lyrics fit with the movie and it probably resonated with them idk lol. The song says something about how she saw or thought the world to be "how long until it's the world I thought it would be" she said "thought" Also she says "what I want it to be" but that's after she says thought so it sounds like a song about nonconformity and change for the better. The better she "thought" was going to happen in this world. She goes on talking about not being a puppet or as she says in the song lyrics "no I won't be a Doll" and being told what world that she is going to be tossed around and forced to live in. The Dvd had the song probably because it was about history, time, change and not being some controlled doll I might have to watch the movie because this case is giving me Hong Kong 97 looping menu music vibes eerily enough. This song sounds powerful, moving, sad/emotional and seems to be created at the right time in music history where music had complex messages and hard to understand meanings in them EX: Five For Fighting: World EX: Blue October: Hate Me EX: Goo Goo Dolls: Black Balloon, Sympathy and Iris (it sounds mid 90's/early 2000's sounding) given the world we live in now with me hearing this for the first time idk it's kind of sad. If it's Delores then it's even more sad. Hopefully Delores O'Riordan's ghost knows that we are looking for this mysterious song out of respect for her R.I.P D'Ro 🥲🌹🪻🌺🌷💐 @lindanimated
the way you were completely right… the song was on a canadian teen drama show called 15/love 😭
i can't be the one who feels scared watching videos like this. weird feeling
For centuries a lost song has been shrouded in mystery and superstition. Some say its a hostile song sung by the strangest creatures. Others, that it's just a sample for the biggest Nu Metal fans. Legend has it that the only hope of ever knowing is a bootleg DVD, that every internet creature has been craving for years. A DVD they say, that everyone is prepared to fight for and risk their life to possess. But the only way of ever finding out, is to go there and see for yourself.
Finally, another Shaii video dedicated to talking about mysterious music! What a great day :D
another thing that made me wish my grandpa was still alive. he was a radio host. maybe he would have known...
"How long will it take" very ironic
You gotta make an update video since the song has been found!!
Ok so I have an actual lost media case here, so let me tell you.
Does anyone remember the 12 minutely object show? It was a webseires based off of BFDI and TDOS.
There were 8 contestants and the only confirmed footage of the show to have ever existed is the intro (which is on my channel)
The show was made somewhere between January to February and the episodes were either privated or deleted in April or may.
The creator has said that they won’t bring back the episodes :( so the only chances at finding it are low.
There is some more info in the comments of the intro video but anyways that’s it.
New vid :)
i cannot find said video on your channel
Who made it?
This was so funny. Oh shit nvm this is actually not a joke.
Who was the creator? Is it the Neptune channel that you have in the description of the video?
bfdi mentioned
Easily my favorite lostwave piece, tysm for covering and spreading this!
As of now, the FULL SONG has been found. It's called How Long by Paula Toledo!
my guess is that the song was made by a band with a friend/family member of the bootlegger. There'll be millions of professionally made songs out there that were simply never uploaded online or published by a record label. My brother's old band comes to mind
this song sounds so good i hope it gets found
THE SONG HAS BEEN FOUND. IT'S Paula Toledo - How Long
Very good rundown! Thank you for the point about false memories. It's very easy to inadvertently get false memories about lost/mysterious media, especially unidentified songs and *especially* songs like this that use a style that was popular at the time so they have a very familiar sound. Someone claiming to remember something without a specific context to trace back to hardly ever makes a good lead and it's better for all participants in a search to be discerning of the best clues, both when sharing and when trying to investigate.
Lost media, but especially lost music, makes me so so sad. I cried watching this video. Just thinking of the effort and memories that must of been put in this song, whether it was meant to be heard or not, every note sung, instrument played, action taken, just makes me glad to be human. It makes me grateful for the ability to express myself, and makes me grateful that people, no matter where they have come from or what they have faced, are able to make wonderful art, and to share their feelings. And it is then especially sad that these things can go unknown. Thinking of every song, every person, every work of art that will live to be unknown, or that will try to be found in futile effort... it makes me so depressed yet grateful to be alive.
So anyone reading this: Please share your art. Give those of the future something to look back on with pride. Give everything you've got, if you can inspire one person, you've done enough.
lmao im crying now
Don't cry anymore! It was found! 😂 How Long - Paula Toledo
@@dotcom137 wait WHAT
@@dotcom137omg just seeing this reply but thank god it was!!!!!! now I’m crying out of happiness instead, and listen to it often 😆😆
I'm impressed that this song has more of a snippet than EKT. Hopefully both will be found.
It's too bad that this is lost-it's kind of a banger.
Hundreds of thousands of little recordings have faded into obscurity! Maybe millions. Demos, failed bands, one-off projects. The chances of tracking any of them down are microscopic!
It was found! :D
Reminds me a lot of Light the Lanterns, another lost song I've been obsessed with since first hearing that has a similar 90s indie feel. At this point I've settled on that it's most likely a leaked demo for an unreleased song by a forgotten, long broken up band and maybe that's the same case for this one too
Light The Lanterns could potentially be a private student project released on a Cassette Tape. Here’s why I made this theory:
- Some people have noticed how the lyrics closely match what is said in a book by the name of “Illumination Night” by Alice Hoffman. Why would an unreleased indie song be based off of a Children’s Book? Why would a mainstream song such as this even show up?
- Adding onto the first piece of evidence, if a song is based off of a children’s book, it could potentially be the work of some student in a school making a catchy song for kids to understand. It’s like “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, that song is popular and it is catchy, and toddlers like it. Same for here, if Light The Lanterns is based off of Illumination Night by Alice Hoffman, the only reason why it would be released is to teach kids about the book, to make kids remember the book through a catchy and slow paced tune.
- There’s only one single .mp3 file of Light The Lanterns which has been tossed around over and over around the internet. If a few copies of this song exists, maybe if they were even broadcasted onto a Wireless (like Blind The Wind on Norddeutsch Radio, also I probably butchered that name), then wouldn’t there be more coverage of the song? If only one .mp3 file exists of the song, then that could only mean one thing: there is a cassette of the full song somewhere, and only ONE copy of it.
- Adding onto the previous piece of evidence or thought, if only one copy exists, it could potentially be in a school. We just need to find it.
- As for why the song is in the school and how it was uncovered, well, the song could have been made for a school project. Perhaps a competition. Light The Lanterns could potentially be one of the entries to the competition, perhaps one of the projects. It also sounds catchy, which could be the reason why it was uncovered possibly years past its recording date: the school liked it to the point that they kept it on display at the school or even in a storage room at the school.
- As for why no one knows about the song, perhaps the song was only played in a single classroom in a single class taught by a now-retired teacher. Perhaps the RETIRED TEACHER left the copy of the song in the classroom before moving on with life. Maybe the person who uncovered it found it in one of their classes and asked the school, “Hey, what is this cassette? What’s the song on it? It sounds nice!” and the school might have said, “No clue” because that student who made it graduated and moved on with life.
But then again, we don’t exactly know how Light The Lanterns was ever found and uncovered in the first place, we don’t know who or where the sample came from, or who uncovered it. For now we can only enjoy a 6 minute long sample of an unknown folk-sounding song.
I’m 38, I’ve never heard this one or “everyone knows that “ before . Idk how peoples memories can be so janky.
I agree that a lot of people seem to have false memories about mysterious songs, but it’s a bit wild to think that if you haven’t heard a song nobody else could have
At my job we clean and repurpose old stuff that are sent by people around the city. In a single day we see and throw away So Many bootleg dvd’s and actual dvds that if you look up dont seem to exist, who knows how many lost media we have threw away
This sounds very supermarket-ty. Like this is made for that.
The answer is:
16 years.
Could just be an indie artist, who's not aware that someone is looking for her.
Omg yesss another unknown song upload, thank you shaiivalley!!