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June 14

What's that song? It's driving me crazy!

I heard this pop-rock song and I really want to know its name and preferably who sings it so that I can YouTube it and/or otherwise acquire it. I figured out that one of the melodies, a refrain (which by definition recurs throughout the song), is:

CBGE E, D, G E-D CBGE E D-D G-E

(Figuring out the exact note values was too hard, so I just punctuated the notes. I'm hoping you'll get the general idea.) In both lines, the first four notes, CBGE, correspond to the syllables "I don't wanna" (or possibly "I just wanna," but I don't think so). "I don't wanna" is repeated more times throughout the song.

What is it??

Thanks, anon. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.155.126.196 (talk) 00:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Has it appeared in a commercial? --70.167.58.6 (talk) 13:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Not to my knowledge, but I found it: "Bring Down Tomorrow" by Di-rect. —anon —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.33.79 (talk) 22:57, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

what is this song

i dont have much info but here it is:

• the song is fairly new.
• it starts with a violin and thin leads into vocal. its been used in a few commercials(i think) and in some movies
• it seems to be popular for high school graduation slide shows
• the singer sounds a little bit like Bono but i know that its not U2.

i know its not much, thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.98.83.85 (talk) 06:34, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

Don't know how Bono-esque she is, but is it that song by Vitamin C? Someoneinmyheadbutit'snotme (talk) 17:37, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

She definitely does not sound like Bono, and that song is not new (I think that was used at my graduation...ugh...) Adam Bishop (talk) 04:07, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

I don't know about slide shows or movies but Coldplay's "Viva la Vida" fits the description pretty well. ~ Eóin (talk) 04:56, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Song titles via SMS

About 5 years ago I lived in england and there was an SMS service that I found very useful. I want to know if it still exists? Can I access it from a phone in Australia or if not is there an Australian or global version? Or possibly some kind of internet version of it?

It worked like this: If you heard a song in a club or on the radio or anywhere, you dialed a number and played ten seconds of the song down the phone. Then it would SMS you back the song name and title. It didn't seem to matter how obscure the song it always manged to get it. It was really useful when you heard a song in a club and wanted to know what it was. I remember it wasn't a cheap service though, calling the number was expensive. Thanks Iiidonkeyiii (talk) 07:18, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

I used to live in England as well and I remember being impressed by this service. it was called Shazam. I don't know if it exists anywhere else, though. --Richardrj ^{talk email} 08:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

My phone uses [Gracenote], but it is a service that lets you tape the song you are listening to (radio/or internet) and then send the clip. You could check the website to see if they offer an sms service too. --Cameron (T|C) 17:45, 14 June 2008 (UTC)

My phone offers a "Track ID" service similar to this. It appears to be run by Sony Ericsson. Information is hard to come by but this might help. Astronaut (talk) 11:30, 15 June 2008 (UTC)