It’s 4:07 AM right now and insomnia is kicking my ass! I was just checking my emails and noticed that I had received a strange email 6 minutes ago. It came from a mysterious email address titled iamamiwhoami and the email title was a youtube link. The only contents of the email where the link to the same video. I clicked the video and lo and behold it’s titled “9.20.19.13.5.723378″. Faaantastic!
The video is 1:20 of beautiful music and ambiguous images. The video was posted by iamamiwhoami and if you look at their past videos they have been posting the same type of mysterious clips!!! I believe GorillavsBear posted the first video a month back, and they have some guesses as to who it is. The most popular guess is Goldfrapp, and I can see that! However, we have no solid proof yet so it is still up in the air. Personally I am guessing Goldfrapp or The Knife. Maybe MGMT?
I am really intrigued by this, and I think this deserves some attention! Who are these guys? Who do you think this is? Is it a new artist trying to create some early buzz (which is working!)? is it a big artist giving us a tease of a new album? is it a forgotten artist who is hinting at a big comeback? I honestly don’t have a clue but I am really interested!!!
Check it out below, please comment and tell me your thoughts! Who is iamamiwhoami ??
I posted the other two videos they have uploaded as well, after the jump!
Logan — 25 Jan 10
People on YouTube think it might be Christina Aguilera, and if it is, I am very disappointed. If I wanted crappy music, I would go over to PMA’s dumb Britney Spears obsession! Other wise, the music is interesting, kind of like MGMT, but with a mix of The Knife. I don’t know, some how it isn’t weird enough for MGMT, and it features the same blond woman in each video.
TC — 25 Jan 10
I think I know what “9.20.19.13.5.723378″ means. If you take 9 and replace it with the 9th letter of the alphabet; i, and treat each ‘.’ as a space you get “I T S M E BIONIC”. I have no idea what it means, but I hope it helps.
TC — 25 Jan 10
I saw it as a comment on the video though so it’s reliability is definitely questionable.
Jade — 25 Jan 10
Bionic is the name of Christina Aguilera’s new album.
WillDewBadley — 25 Jan 10
I like that in the first comment he says that if it is Christina Aguilera it is crappy, but if it is MGMT or the Knife then it is okay.
Seriously people, learn to like music because you like, not because other people say it is cool. For example, this music sounds like nice ambient music, regardless of who made it.
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TC — 25 Jan 10
Thank you WillDewBadley. @Logan You heard the music and liked it, and when you find out who made the music, the music will still be the same regardless of if it is by an artist who’s music you have enjoyed in the past or not.
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Logan — 25 Jan 10
I wasn’t saying it was crappy because it was Christina Aguilera. If it is her, this a publicity stunt, and the music will probably turn out nothing like this. If it does, then great. I’m just saying that great background music can be messed up by someones horrible lyrics or voice. I don’t pretend to like things because other people do. There is plenty of music out there that I don’t like and everyone else does. All I am saying is that if it is her, then this will probably never turn into anything with her own music.
WillDewBadley — 26 Jan 10
@TC You’re welcome.
@Logan Don’t lie to yourself. I used to stop listening to music as soon as I realized it was popular. I avoided listening to AnCo and Grizzly Bear for about a year because all my friends liked it. And I regret it.
@Will Please don’t kick me off your blog for inciting comment wars. Lol.
Saycheeseanddie — 26 Jan 10
@Logan Christina’s album is being produced by Sia, Santigold, M.I.A., Ladytron & Goldfrapp, and if you’re familiar with any of their work you’ll agree that the music featured in the promo is pretty similar sonically
matt — 27 Jan 10
it looks as if Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist and Fever Ray had wild sex, had a child and named it Gollum.
Missy — 6 Mar 10
9.20.19.13.5.723378 does not spell out ITS ME BIONIC. how does 7 2 3 3 7 8 spell out BIONIC? B would be 2. By your logic, the 723378 would spell out GBCCGH. So unless there’s an artist out there named Gib-ca-jih, it’s back to the drawing board for all of us! lol
mand rake — 8 Mar 10
finally someone had a nice idea : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-8SxP643Q
Elise — 13 Mar 10
13.1.14.4.18.1.7.15.18.1
Mandragora > Morgan Lacroix
mand rake — 13 Mar 10
seems like they guys finished their kinda remix. stunning!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzcegwuLMuQ
Francine — 23 Apr 10
Have you seen this iamamiwhoami-MASHUP already?!?! It’s Wonderful!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Yj4VjDx8g
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