Christopher David Booth Ulterior Motives Lyrics

“Ulterior Motives,” formerly known as “Everyone Knows That,” is an obscure synth-pop song that remained lost for decades and was considered lost media until it was miraculously discovered in full on April 28th, 2024 in an unexpected place: the background audio of a scene from a pornographic film, “Angels of Passion,” directed by Jerome Bronson and released in 1986.

Since October 7th 2021, a 17-second audio snippet lived in obscurity on the site WatZatSong.com, uploaded by a user named “Carl92” with little accompanying information about its origin. The clip, with its hypnotic synthesized melody and vocals repeating “Everyone knows that,” became known to Internet archivists and lost media hunters simply as “Everyone Knows That,” commonly abbreviated to “EKT,” or “Ulterior Motives.”

The breakthrough came after a dedicated searcher found a YouTube video containing a song that sounded extremely similar to the “Everyone Knows That” snippet playing in the background of an adult film scene. Crucially, the video description listed the composers as Christopher Saint Booth and Philip Adrian Booth.

Joining forces, the community of archivists rapidly combed through the filmographies of Christopher and Philip Booth, creators of soundtrack music for vintage pornography. It was u/south_pole_ball, a member of the subreddit r/everyoneknowsthat dedicated to finding this lost song, who finally struck gold — locating the complete “Ulterior Motives” playing during a scene in one of the Booth brothers’ adult film scores.

While the means of its rediscovery were certainly unorthodox, for the committed community undertaking this search, finding even a low-quality version of “Ulterior Motives” represented a major “lost media” achievement years in the making. However, the search is not fully complete until a high-quality source for the full song surfaces.