80s porn film finally solves mystery that has been baffling the internet-Brooke Ivey Johnson-Entertainment – Metro

A Reddit user has finally cracked the case (Picture: Getty)

Internet sleuths across the world have been tormented by the mysterious origins of an 80s song – nicknamed Everyone Knows That – for years. 

The song, which some people also call Ulterior Motives, was first shared on the forum WatZatSong in 2021 when the original poster was unable to identify it.

When no one could identify the catchy tune, interest and frustration grew. 

Eventually, a subreddit devoted to figuring out where the song came from emerged and gained 47,000 members.

The mystery was discussed across all corners of the internet, even earning coverage from The Guardian and Rolling Stone. 

Fan’s speculated about the catchy song endlessly, with some certain that it was an unreleased track from a band like Roxette or Savage Garden. Others were sure they remembered hearing it in an ad at some point in their childhood.

Now, the case has finally been cracked thanks to an unlikely source: An 80s porn film. 

When the song first went viral, the original poster claimed they the song was found amongst files in an old DVD backup. This led online users to eventually figure out that the track had to belong to one of a certain few rights holders from the mid-1980s.

Eventually, Reddit user south_pole_ball was able to match the song to a songwriter named Christopher Booth who had created tracks for porn films.

In a feat of admirable determination, the user then watched every single film that featured Booth’s work.

Eventually, the mysterious track played exactly one hour, seven minutes and 31 seconds into 1986’s Angels of Passion, allowing south_pole_ball to finally identify it. 

They wrote: ‘I went through each video and watched them, until I found Angels of Passion (1986). To which I got to 1:07:31 and I found EKT [Everyone Knows That].’

Almost immediately the internet began to react to the discovery, with web sleuths who had been pursuing the mystery for years celebrating the find. 

Even the original songwriter, Christopher Booth, heard about the news and took to Instagram to write: ‘Well today, my mind has officially been blown:) WOW! #ulteriormotives #ekt.’

Now, many users are requesting that Booth release the original audio of the song, as fan-edited versions or the version featuring sounds from the porn film it features in are the only options available online.

Booth has supposedly teased the idea to fans, though its yet to be confirmed if the original track will really be available to stream at long last.

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