Trying to find a song

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:54 am

I'm trying to locate a song/music video I saw some time ago. The artist was Gloria Estefan and I believe this was shortly after her "comeback" after the tour bus accident. I don't remember the song itself, but in the video she's walking around a city at night. The part I remember best is the end, where she's sitting in a cafe/restaurant, looks up in the direction of the camera, and her face just lights up.

Ring any bells with anyone?

Garneta · Post by **Garneta** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:05 pm

Usually when I'm searching for a specific song I'm not sure about I go to Amazon and look up the artist, then listen to the little clips to see what song it is. Then I go to Youtube and see if they have the whole thing.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:09 pm

The problem is, it's not the song I remember but the video. That "lighting up" bit really, really stuck with me. You could use it as a dictionary definition of what it means to say "she lit up."

Phact0rri · Post by **Phact0rri** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:36 pm

you tube her videos!

Killbert-Robby · Post by **Killbert-Robby** » Thu May 31, 2007 12:59 pm

I remember some site would allow you to search for a song by humming into your mic. Try googling it if you get desperate?

MixedMyth · Post by **MixedMyth** » Thu May 31, 2007 1:22 pm

Would this be it?

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Thu May 31, 2007 9:55 pm

MixedMyth wrote:Would this be it?

Oh god, the internet rocks more and more.

TRI · Post by **TRI** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:31 am

I remember hearing about that back when it was only available to Alan Alda.

'Though I spent quite a while trying to figure out where I'd heard the "one Chinese song from an RPG game" linked to in the FAQ before.

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 2:18 am

Hmmm...

WikiPedia -> Search for "Gloria Stefan" -> Find First album after bus crash -> Into te Light page -> first single "Coming out of the Dark" is a stage performance...

-> second single "Seal our Fate" is a sort of industrial / stage performance / big dance number video, but does end with a close up of GS's face well light, but not in any great way...
-> third single "Can't forget you" is a black + white video in a big mansion...
-> fourth single "Live for Loving You" is more of an animated / stylistic video - ends with GS sitting on the moon...

->"Remember me with Love" was a UK-only single, with only a live version available on YouTube...

-> Unless you're thinking of the more popular "Turn the beat around" which was set on a rooftop and had some scene's from one of Stallone's movies in it, but had some fairly specific lighting.

Those are the songs she put out around that time, and if it's not one of those, then you'd need to cross-reference her discography with youtube and/or a site that describes the video clips.

Dburkhead · Post by **Dburkhead** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 1:56 pm

The closest I've been able to come is "I see your smile" which seems to have much of the imagery I remember, but the ending is different. Instead of the camera coming up on her sitting in the booth and her looking up and "lighting up" it has Andy Garcia as a waiter coming to take her order and she asks if the waiter is on the menu.

I wonder if there might have been two versions of that video released?

Dr Neo Lao · Post by **Dr Neo Lao** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:52 pm

It's possible.

I've found that a lot of videos I've seen here (the "Australian" version) aren't available (or at least not easy to find) on the internet because a search for that song by that artists finds only the American version (assuming the group is based in the US).

Sometimes that's good, sometimes it's bad but yes - it's entirely possible that the version you saw was a "regional" version, or one of several.

(Which kinda also makes me ask the question: Are you sure it was Gloria Stefan?)