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Downton abbey Mandela effect?

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Didjesuspoop · 04/01/2023 21:07

This is such a small, insignificant thing but it’s really bugging me so just wondering if anyone else can remember the same thing! Ages ago I remember watching a trailer for downton abbey (I thought it could have been season 5) and the music over it was a female acoustic cover to the times they are a changing. I have searched high and low on YouTube and Google for this trailer and watched every trailer for every season of downton and that song does not appear in any of them! Anyone else?! Maybe I’m thinking of a totally different tv program or maybe I’m remembering wrong?

YABU - I’ve never seen that trailer with that song
YANBU - I remember this trailer! (Please help me find it)

OP posts:
SuckItNietzsche · 04/01/2023 22:40

You know this is gonna bother me now 😅

There'll be two of us lying awake wondering wtf this song is

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Didjesuspoop · 04/01/2023 22:58

@SuckItNietzsche i promise even if it takes me years I will update you if I ever find it! 🤣

OP posts:
Nagado · 04/01/2023 23:05

Do you remember the tune, how good a singer are you and does Shazam still exist?

Runningfire · 04/01/2023 23:08

Do you understand what the (completely idiotic) Mandela effect is? It’s not you misremembering something.

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Didjesuspoop · 04/01/2023 23:34

@Nagado i remember the tune perfectly but I’d break Shazam if I tried it! 🤣 just going to have to be one of life’s mysteries!

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BrownEyedGhoul · 04/01/2023 23:40

You are thinking of the Crown, whether you agree or not. Downtown Abbey is set in the 1920s, there is no way any official trailer or advert featured a 1960s song. Didn't happen.

The Crown, however, used the song for a trailer for the series that was......set in the 1960's.

Human memory is very inaccurate. Human arrogance, on the other hand, knows no bounds. You simply misremembered, no need for the silly Mandela affect nonsense

7eleven · 04/01/2023 23:42

gabrielle aplin salvation lyrics

could you have got the song wrong? This is from season 5

rattlinbog · 04/01/2023 23:49

BrownEyedGhoul · 04/01/2023 23:40

You are thinking of the Crown, whether you agree or not. Downtown Abbey is set in the 1920s, there is no way any official trailer or advert featured a 1960s song. Didn't happen.

The Crown, however, used the song for a trailer for the series that was......set in the 1960's.

Human memory is very inaccurate. Human arrogance, on the other hand, knows no bounds. You simply misremembered, no need for the silly Mandela affect nonsense

Such a harsh response!!

Keyansier · 04/01/2023 23:52

rattlinbog · 04/01/2023 23:49

Such a harsh response!!

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How was it a harsh response? I thought it was explained accurately and it makes total sense to me reading it.

OP the only other thing I can think of is did you watch a Downton Abbey fan tribute video on Youtube and it used that version of that song in the background?

FangedFrisbee · 04/01/2023 23:54

Bridgerton?

BrownEyedGhoul · 04/01/2023 23:56

How is it harsh? It's just accurate.

Unlike OP's memory.

BrownEyedGhoul · 04/01/2023 23:57

FangedFrisbee · 04/01/2023 23:54

Bridgerton?

Bridgerton did feature the song but that was a string quartet.

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:03

Isn't it the Did I Make the Most of Loving You? cover? Mary-Jess Cleaverland? I think it was used in a promo but maybe never a trailer...

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dstnv4nUT0Ro&ved=2ahUKEwjRz_OPkK_8AhXPglwKHciMBf0Qz40FegQILhAI&usg=AOvVaw1_DsRDjqjkL-dQ-NRcwg4I

rattlinbog · 05/01/2023 00:06

BrownEyedGhoul · 04/01/2023 23:56

How is it harsh? It's just accurate.

Unlike OP's memory.

By suggesting she is arrogant and referring to "silly nonsense". It was just a lighthearted thread!

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:07

Oh, sorry, just seen that it's specifically one song.

There are plenty a anachronistic things in Downton Abbey, however 😉 Turkish diplomat and Hobson's Choice off the top of my head...

SouthOfFrance · 05/01/2023 00:08

Wow this thread took a turn didnt it

BrownEyedGhoul · 05/01/2023 00:13

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:03

Isn't it the Did I Make the Most of Loving You? cover? Mary-Jess Cleaverland? I think it was used in a promo but maybe never a trailer...

www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dstnv4nUT0Ro&ved=2ahUKEwjRz_OPkK_8AhXPglwKHciMBf0Qz40FegQILhAI&usg=AOvVaw1_DsRDjqjkL-dQ-NRcwg4I

That's literally the theme music for the series. The words were added later. And that's not a cover.

Elbo7 · 05/01/2023 00:14

Could it be any of these OP?

secondhandsongs.com/performance/625

Newmumtobetwentytwentytwo · 05/01/2023 00:16

m.youtube.com/watch?v=2D36uqBuo5A

is it this? The crown rather than Downton?

Newmumtobetwentytwentytwo · 05/01/2023 00:18

Ah sorry no that’s already been shared!

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:18

Yeah, I know it's the theme (although it is not literally the theme because, as you've so kindly pointed out, the theme is not instrumental). I misread the OP's question. But how is it not a cover?

Elbo7 · 05/01/2023 00:18

Elbo7 · 05/01/2023 00:14

Could it be any of these OP?

secondhandsongs.com/performance/625

Whoops pressed too soon!

I don't know this website by the way - I just googled covers of the song and it came up, but there are loads of versions on here, I had a brief listen to some of the more recent ones and they seem more instrumental and there was one with a higher voice, stories ft Lily kershaw that could fit the bill? From 2019

Sorry if you've already tried it. I see some of the links are to you tube so you may well have seen them already.

BrownEyedGhoul · 05/01/2023 00:19

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:18

Yeah, I know it's the theme (although it is not literally the theme because, as you've so kindly pointed out, the theme is not instrumental). I misread the OP's question. But how is it not a cover?

How IS it a cover? Of what? Who do you think did the original?

Jourdain11 · 05/01/2023 00:21

@BrownEyedGhoul Do you know the meaning of the term 'Mandela Effect' (not 'affect')? Because it's literally, as you would say, what the OP is describing!