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January 13

a little popular 2013 song.

sorry, I need your help, I'm looking for this kind-of popular song! It has been played 2 times in the last 2-3 weeks. and It's most likely a late 2012 or 2013 song. I've looked on the top 40 charts from USA and I can't find it, it's in english. it's a guy singing and he's white I think, atleast has that voice, I could remember they lyrics but I forgot them and I haven't heard the song since. :( I think it's a 2013 song but I doubt that it's older then 2010-2011! it had lyrics from him, and then solo parts with like dance/house or techno beat. :/ lyrics were like "alive" or something, atleast had that word in them I think :( :(

I've tried to listen to youtube vids with top 2013 songs and I can't find it there. It can't be a old song as it has like a newish beat, it reminds me of icona pop - all night except it was a male singing the main parts, and then come the solo sound parts, like in All night. and it had a beat not like that but maybe same genre of beat :(

I'm from Iceland btw, if that helps — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.209.159.215 (talk) 02:10, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Literally a random guess given your very sketchy description, could it be Daft Punk's song "Get Lucky"? --Jayron32 02:39, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Maybe Wake Me Up by Avicii? It's got normal sounding verses oddly interspersed with dubstep or EDM or whatever...not sure the lyrics fit though. Adam Bishop (talk) 11:44, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

sadly both of these are too popular and both in top 40 :( 157.157.147.214 (talk) 13:21, 13 January 2014 (UTC) but its also similar to wake me up. and all night, with those solo parts.

Could it be This Is What It Feels Like by Armin Van Buuren? Mingmingla (talk) 17:44, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

Trololo question

Everyone knows that the Trololo song ("I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home") doesn't have proper lyrics, instead, people who sang it (notably Eduard Khil) had to make up vocal sounds for it. According to the link, the song's lyrics were either banned due to their "Western content" (it was apparently originally about cowboys), or were not included due to a disagreement between the lyricist and the composer. My question is: have the original or intended lyrics for the song ever surfaced? Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 09:23, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

"Everyone knows"? HiLo48 (talk) 14:07, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Indeed. Were it not for the link, I would have no idea what OP was talking about. Dismas|^(talk) 14:54, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

It was on Desert Island Discs a couple of weeks ago. I must admit that was the first time I heard it. Tevildo (talk) 19:03, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Classical music recording statistics

Is there an estimate of the total number of classical recordings that have been produced worldwide, since the inception of the recording industry, in whatever format, including wax cylinders, magnetic tape, vinyl, CD, DVD, &c.? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ElMachali (talk • contribs) 19:43, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Do you also want recordings made by amateurs, or just the major labels? In either case, I don't know. I doubt anyone could guess more specifically than "billions" (also my estimate), but I'll see what I can see. Much easier to count the works than the records, but even those should be huge and vary wildly. InedibleHulk (talk) 11:06, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Also, if you count TV and radio as formats, a somewhat specific answer to the question would certainly take a miracle. InedibleHulk (talk) 11:08, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

My Google results are predictably maddening. But to make myself somewhat useful, here are some companies which may have useful numbers (or know who does). I trust it's much easier to Google their contact info than the question directly. InedibleHulk (talk) 11:16, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Agents of SHIELD & X-Men

In AoS it is made clear that telekinesis and telepathy are both considered impossible. However, as this is the same Marvel universe as X-Men, surely they are aware of high publicity mutants such as Professor X and his abilities? A quick Google search returns some articles that we shouldn't expect to see any X-men characters in AoS (I cannot open these links atm as I am at work so do not know if they go into more detail). I have no issues with these characters not appearing but feel that a better explanation for why they are pretending the mutants/their abilities don't exist has to be out there. Has there been an explanation provided for this oversight? 63.95.64.254 (talk) 21:14, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Forgot to mention I find this particularly bizarre with Scarlet Witch appearing in the new Avengers seeing as she is Magneto's daughter. 63.95.64.254 (talk) 21:15, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

It's not clear that the Xmen exist in the same marvel universe as AoS; it's very possible that they don't. Marvel considers its characters to exist in the Marvel Multiverse, a collection of parallel worlds. Many of these worlds are similar (they contain versions of the same characters) but with important differences - different properties (films, comics, etc.) exist in different universes within this overall multiverse. This allows Marvel's writers to mess around with the histories of characters and their powers without breaking the continuity. So, e.g. the comics' Mandarin is a superpowered bad dude; Iron Man 3's Mandarin is a ridiculous fake. The comics are mostly in the Earth-616 universe; AoS and the recent films (Avengers, Iron Man, Capt America, and the two Thor films) are in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a different dimension. It's not clear (and I think it's not the case) that the (five?) Xmen/Wolverine films, the (five?) Spider Man films, the two Fantastic Four films, or the various Hulk films are in that universe (there's no mention of their characters or their events). Or that those different properties are in the same universe as one another. Some comic fans laughed at Avengers Assemble's subtitle "Earth's mightiest heroes" when that didn't include the Xmen, Spiderman, Daredevil, the Fantastic Four, or the Silver Surfer. It's perfectly possible for them to have the MCU's Scarlet Witch exist without Magneto or any Xmen-ish person existing. They make this stuff up as they go. As Lucy Lawless teaches us, a wizard did it. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 22:54, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

A slight correction - it seems the Ed Norton Hulk (The Incredible Hulk (film)) is in the MCU, but the Eric Bana one isn't. And they're not in the old Hulk TV series universe either. That's enough to make anyone angry. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 23:05, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

In reality this is simply because some of the Marvel characters (the X-Men particularly, also Spider-Man I guess) are owned by Fox, and Marvel and Fox are unwilling to share. Adam Bishop (talk) 00:39, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

This is pretty much the answer. The X-men don't exist in the MCU, since Fox own the movie rights, and (so far at least) seem understandably unwilling to let them go back to Marvel. This article [1] discusses which characters fall on Fox's side of the line. Speculation among my comic-fan friends is that Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are sufficiently associated with Avengers rather than X-Men (despite their ancestry) to fall on Marvel's side, but I suspect that there was some heavy negotiating to get them there. MChesterMC (talk) 09:53, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Fox owns the rights to the word "mutant" as it pertains to Marvel superhero movies. You will never hear the word "mutant" in any non-Fox produced Marvel Studios show or movie. It explains why Agents and Avengers (and also Sony's Spider-Man movies) have been completely mutant-free. It'll be interesting to see how they handle Quicksilver in Avengers 2. --209.203.125.162 (talk) 23:42, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Digital Cinema Package and digital projections

Can a Digital Cinema Package be screened through any Digital Projectors? or is it like every digital projectors has its own format. Example, Qube Cinema digital projector is present in many theaters in India. Can a DCP created by other softwares be screened in Qube's theatres? If i have not understood the topic at all, please tell me about the process from DCP to theatrical projection. There are lots of companies, what way they differ from each other, by software? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.164.151.238 (talk) 23:20, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

The idea of Digital Cinema Package is that its an interoperability format - that any player that strictly follows the standard can play any medium that does too. In practice, like other attempts at cross-vendor interoperability, there can be teething problems due to subtle incompatibilities (it's a pretty complicated format). In addition, not all Digital cinema systems attempt to implement DCP - some implement other formats instead. -- Finlay McWalterჷTalk 23:38, 13 January 2014 (UTC)