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November 30

Identifying a song

Asking for somebody else here, but could anybody identify this song? Inevitably attempts to use Google are rendered redundant by that Frozen song. Keresaspa (talk) 20:24, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

"Let It Go", from Let It Go, by Will Young. Tevildo (talk) 20:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Hmmm, his voice is a lot higher than the one in the link and I don't hear the instrumentation in Young's song. Thanks anyway though. Keresaspa (talk) 01:22, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Well, the sample in the link is compressed (digitally rather than acoustically) to the point of distortion - I'm basing the assessment mainly on timbre and rhythm, and on it not sounding like any of the other songs entitled "Let It Go" that I could find quickly. But there may be a better candidate out there. Tevildo (talk) 09:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

If it is Will Young, I don't think it's the above album. If you go all the way back to 2000, the song is still there. It's possible archive.org is being misleading and the file with the song was a later addition, but looking at the source, I think it's probably correct. The album wasn't released until 2008 and our Will Young suggests in 2000 he was still fairly unknown. There is mention of the page here [1] in 2004 but it doesn't mention the song in particular although does mention the swf file the song is coming from. (The swf file being from 2000 or earlier would also explain why the audio is so heavily compressed.) Nil Einne (talk)