Ulterior Motives is a 1986 pop song by Christopher Saint Booth & Phillip Adrian Booth, previously known as "Everyone Knows That". 17 seconds of the song was posted onto WatZatSong by carl92 on 07 Oct 2021. On 01 May 2024, the song would be identified by south_poll_ball, One-Truth-5867 & Christopher Saint Booth himself

HISTORY

On 07 October 2021, WatZatSong user carl92 posted a 17 second long snippet of the song. He said he didn't have any more of the song and that he found it on a file in a DVD backup from 1999. He then quickly left the search.

The audio had a 15.734 kHz pilot tone that is only present in NTSC CRT TVs.

The song would quickly gain some popularity, being reuploaded by barni, eccote & Jay Kay. However, the main boost in popularity would come in mid 2023, when the clip went viral on TikTok & the song became the most followed sample on WatZatSong.

In 2024, One-Truth-5867 found a scene from Taboo III with a song titled 'Animal In Me' credited to 'Christopher Saint Booth & Phillip Adrian Booth'. He noticed that those two names were in BMI and SOCAN with a registry for a song titled 'Ulterior Motives'. On 28 April 2024, One-Truth-5867 and south_poll_ball began skimming through all of the movies credited to Christopher until south_poll_ball found it in the 1986 adult film, 'Angels of Passion'. The questionable origin of the song is the likely reason that carl92 left the search. Christopher Saint Booth would later confirm that he was the vocalist on 01 May 2024. The hype around the solve caused WatZatSong to be shut down for an extended period of time.

After the song was found, Christopher and Phillip started working on a recreation of the song. All of the instrumental tracks were found, but the original vocal tracks were lost. It was released under their new alias, 'Who's Who', along with 12 other songs on the album 'Ulterior Motives: The Lost Album' on 23 June 2024.

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