It’s the story of people longing for community in the digital era. The hunt embodies every conversation anyone has ever had with a devoted music nerd happy to share every morsel of information about an obscure song - in this case, one supposedly taped off European radio about 35 years ago. Throughout this quest, which intensified this summer, thousands of man-hours have been devoted to unearthing anything at all about what these zealous investigators are calling “the most mysterious song on the Internet.” And for about a dozen years, a dedicated gaggle of music obsessives from around the world has been searching for any information about these three minutes of music. That’s because, right now, no one knows anything about it: who wrote it, who sang it, or even when it came out. But the name of the artist or band doesn’t come to mind. (Or at least on an Eighties Spotify station.) Close your eyes and you can imagine a music video: awkwardly lip-synching musicians, exploding lightbulbs, foggy streets. With its rigid beat and dry, monotone vocals, the song sounds like a synth-pop hit you would have heard in a dance club in the Eighties.
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