Post by saturnius on Jan 5, 2021 17:05:25 GMT
I tried posting this as a Lost Media Wiki page but I was told it was unidentified media instead.
So I'm reposting my Lost Media Wiki page here because it already has everything I know about it and I'm too lazy to rewrite it all. (sorry if that's bad)
Summary (tl;dr):
In a Filthy Frank video where he shows how different cultures pick up girls uploaded in 2013, there's a song for a couple seconds when "Kenya" comes up and people have been trying to identify it since the video was posted and nobody can find it. It's a reggae song in Ugandan.
Click this to listen to the Kenya Song
My original post with more info on the search for the song:
The Filthy Frank Kenya Song is a reggae song shortly featured in The Filthy Frank Show, a Youtube series which started in 2011 by George Miller. This song plays in the deleted episode "How To Pick Up Girls In 30 Different Cultures!" which originally aired on January 14th, 2013. It plays during the part of the video about Kenya for only a few seconds, whilst Frank dances dressed as a stereotypical Kenyan man.
Since little is known about the song apart from 4 seconds, it is difficult to find credible information concerning it. Most information are claims from people searching for the song.
Frank's Comment
On the original video which has been deleted, Frank had commented that people have been asking him for years for the song, and he does not remember where he found it. The video can be found using the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive.
The Search
Hundreds of fans of The Filthy Frank Show have been searching for the song in the Kenya clip since the episode was first uploaded. The most popular post of someone seeking the song was posted on Reddit. The user explains that they found the song in another video, "New African Cristiano Ronado - AMAZING Long Shot HD"; although it was likely taken from Frank's video as it was uploaded later and uses the exact same clip of the song. Lastly, the author of the post also includes his thoughts on some comments made on Youtube videos with the Kenya song.
There is a 10-minute long loop of the Kenya song uploaded on Youtube with about 500 comments. Most of these commenters are searching for the song, many are East Africans breaking down the meaning of the song and trying to pinpoint its origin.
The oldest mention of the search for the song is on a Facebook post by Cèsar Mendoza, asking for the song 4 days after "How To Pick Up Girls In 30 Different Cultures!" was uploaded.
The song is possibly by the Ugandan artist Bobi Wine or related reggae singers.
Song Meaning
The lyrics of the song indisputably say "Ono omwana atuzaalidwa, omulenzi atuweleddwa" which means "A baby boy has been born, we". Judging by the lyrics, most commenters have inferred that this is a Christian song, most likely a Christmas song. The language of the song is a Bantu language, a language family spread across Southern and East Africa. It is difficult to precisely identify which language it is from because the sentence is feasible in numerous tongues.
Feature on Whang!
The Kenya song and the search for it have been featured on a segment of the Youtube show Tales From the Internet by Justin Whang. This has introduced the search to over 200,000 new viewers, reviving the search. Whang goes in depth about this piece of Lost Media.
So I'm reposting my Lost Media Wiki page here because it already has everything I know about it and I'm too lazy to rewrite it all. (sorry if that's bad)
Summary (tl;dr):
In a Filthy Frank video where he shows how different cultures pick up girls uploaded in 2013, there's a song for a couple seconds when "Kenya" comes up and people have been trying to identify it since the video was posted and nobody can find it. It's a reggae song in Ugandan.
Click this to listen to the Kenya Song
My original post with more info on the search for the song:
The Filthy Frank Kenya Song is a reggae song shortly featured in The Filthy Frank Show, a Youtube series which started in 2011 by George Miller. This song plays in the deleted episode "How To Pick Up Girls In 30 Different Cultures!" which originally aired on January 14th, 2013. It plays during the part of the video about Kenya for only a few seconds, whilst Frank dances dressed as a stereotypical Kenyan man.
Since little is known about the song apart from 4 seconds, it is difficult to find credible information concerning it. Most information are claims from people searching for the song.
Frank's Comment
On the original video which has been deleted, Frank had commented that people have been asking him for years for the song, and he does not remember where he found it. The video can be found using the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive.
The Search
Hundreds of fans of The Filthy Frank Show have been searching for the song in the Kenya clip since the episode was first uploaded. The most popular post of someone seeking the song was posted on Reddit. The user explains that they found the song in another video, "New African Cristiano Ronado - AMAZING Long Shot HD"; although it was likely taken from Frank's video as it was uploaded later and uses the exact same clip of the song. Lastly, the author of the post also includes his thoughts on some comments made on Youtube videos with the Kenya song.
There is a 10-minute long loop of the Kenya song uploaded on Youtube with about 500 comments. Most of these commenters are searching for the song, many are East Africans breaking down the meaning of the song and trying to pinpoint its origin.
The oldest mention of the search for the song is on a Facebook post by Cèsar Mendoza, asking for the song 4 days after "How To Pick Up Girls In 30 Different Cultures!" was uploaded.
The song is possibly by the Ugandan artist Bobi Wine or related reggae singers.
Song Meaning
The lyrics of the song indisputably say "Ono omwana atuzaalidwa, omulenzi atuweleddwa" which means "A baby boy has been born, we". Judging by the lyrics, most commenters have inferred that this is a Christian song, most likely a Christmas song. The language of the song is a Bantu language, a language family spread across Southern and East Africa. It is difficult to precisely identify which language it is from because the sentence is feasible in numerous tongues.
Feature on Whang!
The Kenya song and the search for it have been featured on a segment of the Youtube show Tales From the Internet by Justin Whang. This has introduced the search to over 200,000 new viewers, reviving the search. Whang goes in depth about this piece of Lost Media.
