For years now, a dedicated group of Redditors have been searching for an ‘80s song many considered an example of lost media. A short clip of the song was originally uploaded by someone named Carl92 back in 2021, but the fervor around the track really kicked into high gear after videos about “Everyone Knows That” or “Ulterior Motives” went viral on TikTok earlier this year.



@retrodreamer80s “Jimmy, stop it!” #80s #80smusic #lostmedia #pov #80saesthetic #everyoneknowsthat #unknownsong ♬ Ekt lost song - Ria(madonnas version)


People shared all manner of theories, with many claiming to remember the song from various commercials or college radio stations. The subreddit dedicated to the search debunked different theories every day, until finally, last week, the case was cracked: following one moderator’s lead regarding the work of Christopher Saint Booth, a musician who, amongst other things, worked on pornographic films in the ‘80s, a dedicated Redditor bravely watched each of the movies Booth worked on until they hit the jackpot and discovered “Everyone Knows That” in the background of 1986’s Angels of Passion.



While many people rushed to watch some vintage porn with an unusually fire soundtrack, others waited until a SFW version was cut together and uploaded to YouTube, allowing fans to listen to the song in its entirety for the first time ever.



The mood across the internet — not just on the r/ekt subreddit, but on r/lostmedia as well as Twitter and TikTok — was jubilant, with people overjoyed at the solving of such a tricky example of lost media.



Better yet, word of the find reached Christopher Saint Booth, who posted about the news to his Instagram accompanied by the same image used in the viral YouTube video of the song that has now come to be associated with it as a result: a tiny metallic pink stereo resting on pink pillows. Booth’s caption was short and sweet, simply reading, “Well today, my mind has officially been blown:) WOW!”


Moderators of the subreddit have attempted to contact Booth to no avail, but considering both they and journalists have reached out, hopefully it won’t be long before someone gets the full story of how one of the most popular “lost” songs came to be made — and for a vintage porn flick no less.