Ear candy for my diabetic ear shock (Song ID)

October 7, 2010 8:40 AM

Please identify this song, prettypleasepleaseplease?

Simple question: Who does the music for this HTC Evo 4G commercial for Sprint? It's awesome, and several frustrated Youtube commenters also want to know.

NB: SoundHound and Shazam both failed to ID this for me.

posted by holterbarbour to Media & Arts (4 answers total)

If you don't have any luck here, I've found asking in the AdTunes forums can be helpful [I did a search and they haven't talked about this ad as near as I can tell].
posted by jessamyn at 8:52 AM on October 7, 2010 [1 favorite]

Deep in the youtube comments, someone claims it was a one-off song done for the commercial by "Bethurum". The problem is the song isn't on his website and he/she doesn't even have a contact email listed, so there's no way to be sure if that information is accurate. However, the type of music is similar. At least that might give you a lead on more google searches.
posted by sharkfu at 9:02 AM on October 7, 2010

Yeah, sounds like it was probably commissioned, or whatever, specifically for the commercial. If it wasn't Bethurum, it was probably staff at the ad firm or a different media music firm. Did you try finding out who made the ad?
posted by Lutoslawski at 9:17 AM on October 7, 2010

Response by poster: I listened to the tracks on the Bethurum page, and (to my ears at least) they sound sufficiently dissimilar that I doubt it's Bethurum doing the music. I'm hoping that I can track this down by finding out who made the commercial... but I haven't the foggiest idea as to how I could do that. I do kind of know a guy who's pretty well-respected in advertising, so maybe I'll ask him if he knows- but I don't really know him that well. Any more ideas, hive mind?
posted by holterbarbour at 7:43 AM on October 8, 2010