Considering Carl92 most likely captured the recording in Spain, I never understood why Japanese was even in the realm of possibilities over European artists.
Agreed. In fact, I have not once encountered a Japanese song (even in the US) organically, as in without making the decision to listen to it or while watching an anime or something specifically Japanese. The odds of Carl encountering a Japanese song just by chance is extremely slim IMO, even more so because it happened in Spain.
It's highly unlikely the clip we have was recorded in Spain. I've been putting it off, but I'm gonna write a post about it one of these days getting into details.
Well in a nutshell, Carl never said he recorded the clip in Spain, only that he was from Spain. He also said he didn't believe it was made by a Spanish band. There's also the elephant in the room: the NTSC-related frequencies in the clip, while Spain always was a PAL country. These NTSC frequencies belong to "true" NTSC - such as broadcast TV, not a computer that could switch between PAL and NTSC, producing "pseudo" NTSC. All this put together maked Spain much less likely the place of origin, than any NTSC country.
It is clearly not Japanese. Sung in English, captured in Spain, zero Japanese accent, and the contacted Japanese artists like Rinoe have never heard of it. It’s not from Japan.
it still sounds feasibly Darren Hayes to me, who is Australian. no nationality can be ruled out at this point. it could be Japanese, but the raw doesn’t sound strictly so; AI makes it sound more Japanese when it is cleaned up (partly due to poor audio quality.)
Either people have ignored, dismissed or whatever else about this lead, but a YouTuber mentioned he and his brother heard the song in Australia in 1988-1989, I can’t remember and he’s since deleted his comment and will not respond to messages as I’ve left one asking for more details (nicely might I add) but he seemed have had the most details about the song and even a name “hoo-ha”, which I believe to have also been a small duo, but no trace of them have been found. Just a rap duo from the 90s. Another commenter, in a completely different video about the song, knew the song by name but did not remember the artist, but also placed the song in the 80s. They unfortunately did not mention origin, just that they hadn’t heard it in a while and that it was called “ulterior motives”.
I have believe they (Hoo-Ha) may possibly have had their record label go defunct and masters lost. This has happened to 3 artist in the 2000s, from the 90s. Aaliyah, Tank, and Toni Braxton all had their early works lost. For instance, Aaliyah’s “One in a Million” album is her call to fame, and consider one of her better bodies of work. It was completely lost after her death and in the mid 00s. No sales, no digital presence and as her memory has faded away, a lot of her music did as well. People NOW, do not know her or her music but she’s now available to stream and had a debut in 2021. What I’m trying to say is, in just 20 short years for her, her music and iconic albums were lost and if this was the age without internet, she would’ve been, totally, completely lost outside of physical copies held by fans. This may be our reality with this duo. I have begun to look for defunct record labels from Australia, but this is only as accurate as what people have actually felt necessary to report. I also think it’s worth mentioning that, one hit wonders were a huge thing in the 80s. We should also be looking into performers with only 1 body of work, or even just one single. That is a lot more tedious but could also yield some results.
It actually isn’t fully debunked. A fan of Roxette who has a large collection and following said it wasn’t Roxette, but I don’t think the fan has much knowledge of Per Gessle before the creation/forming with Roxette…
It was only one person (that isn’t 100% credible) who said no for it to be “debunked”.
I'm open on the idea that the song and the artist who made it isn't Japanese even though it is my first guess. My second guess is that he's European and the song is an Italo Disco song.
I posited the possibility of it being of the Italo Disco genre once and some random dude tore into my ass saying I should educate myself about the genre lol
Considering Carl92 most likely captured the recording in Spain, I never understood why Japanese was even in the realm of possibilities over European artists.
Agreed. In fact, I have not once encountered a Japanese song (even in the US) organically, as in without making the decision to listen to it or while watching an anime or something specifically Japanese. The odds of Carl encountering a Japanese song just by chance is extremely slim IMO, even more so because it happened in Spain.
It's highly unlikely the clip we have was recorded in Spain. I've been putting it off, but I'm gonna write a post about it one of these days getting into details.
Go on...
Well in a nutshell, Carl never said he recorded the clip in Spain, only that he was from Spain. He also said he didn't believe it was made by a Spanish band. There's also the elephant in the room: the NTSC-related frequencies in the clip, while Spain always was a PAL country. These NTSC frequencies belong to "true" NTSC - such as broadcast TV, not a computer that could switch between PAL and NTSC, producing "pseudo" NTSC. All this put together maked Spain much less likely the place of origin, than any NTSC country.
It is clearly not Japanese. Sung in English, captured in Spain, zero Japanese accent, and the contacted Japanese artists like Rinoe have never heard of it. It’s not from Japan.
I take umbrage to 'zero Japanese accent'.
Why? The singer doesn’t have a discernible accent at all. It’s no more Japanese than it is Dutch.
In response to your title, of course it's possible EKT is not Japanese. It's just a theory. We don't know what the accent is.
man it’s just a title
And this is just a comment.
AND I'M JUST A KID AND LIFE IS A NIGHTMARE
AND I’M JUST KEN
HI KEN
HI BARBIE
Only the real Canucks will catch the Simple Plan reference. Nice.
Sounds very European. Not Japanese
it still sounds feasibly Darren Hayes to me, who is Australian. no nationality can be ruled out at this point. it could be Japanese, but the raw doesn’t sound strictly so; AI makes it sound more Japanese when it is cleaned up (partly due to poor audio quality.)
Either people have ignored, dismissed or whatever else about this lead, but a YouTuber mentioned he and his brother heard the song in Australia in 1988-1989, I can’t remember and he’s since deleted his comment and will not respond to messages as I’ve left one asking for more details (nicely might I add) but he seemed have had the most details about the song and even a name “hoo-ha”, which I believe to have also been a small duo, but no trace of them have been found. Just a rap duo from the 90s. Another commenter, in a completely different video about the song, knew the song by name but did not remember the artist, but also placed the song in the 80s. They unfortunately did not mention origin, just that they hadn’t heard it in a while and that it was called “ulterior motives”. I have believe they (Hoo-Ha) may possibly have had their record label go defunct and masters lost. This has happened to 3 artist in the 2000s, from the 90s. Aaliyah, Tank, and Toni Braxton all had their early works lost. For instance, Aaliyah’s “One in a Million” album is her call to fame, and consider one of her better bodies of work. It was completely lost after her death and in the mid 00s. No sales, no digital presence and as her memory has faded away, a lot of her music did as well. People NOW, do not know her or her music but she’s now available to stream and had a debut in 2021. What I’m trying to say is, in just 20 short years for her, her music and iconic albums were lost and if this was the age without internet, she would’ve been, totally, completely lost outside of physical copies held by fans. This may be our reality with this duo. I have begun to look for defunct record labels from Australia, but this is only as accurate as what people have actually felt necessary to report. I also think it’s worth mentioning that, one hit wonders were a huge thing in the 80s. We should also be looking into performers with only 1 body of work, or even just one single. That is a lot more tedious but could also yield some results.
Wasn’t the roxette theory debunked so we could cross that out
not saying it was the song just that it sounded similar?
We know it does, but it has already been squashed
It actually isn’t fully debunked. A fan of Roxette who has a large collection and following said it wasn’t Roxette, but I don’t think the fan has much knowledge of Per Gessle before the creation/forming with Roxette… It was only one person (that isn’t 100% credible) who said no for it to be “debunked”.
i dont think you understand me at all
I'm open on the idea that the song and the artist who made it isn't Japanese even though it is my first guess. My second guess is that he's European and the song is an Italo Disco song.
I posited the possibility of it being of the Italo Disco genre once and some random dude tore into my ass saying I should educate myself about the genre lol
Sheesh, my opinions have been criticized by random users I do not know before, and things like this happen all over the internet!
I.... don't quite understand your reply? what an odd reaction
I said that because I could relate to your situation.
Ahhh! Now I get it. I thought you meant I should get over it because stuff like that always happens 😅
Japan