Windows 8 Theme Song I Wanna Be Song Download Free Online

The song swelled again, glitching into a dubstep drop made entirely of printer error sounds. His webcam light turned on. A single tile on his screen showed a live feed of his own face , looking terrified. Underneath, a button: “I Wanna Be Shared.”

Arjun, a fourteen-year-old with a cracked iPod touch and a heart full of misplaced nostalgia, was trying to download the Windows 8 theme song. Not the official one—the bland orchestral swell of "Welcome to Windows." No, he wanted the other one. The one whispered about in forgotten YouTube comments and abandoned Stack Overflow threads: “I Wanna Be” by a ghost artist named .

“Windows 8 is restarting. Please do not turn off your computer. Also, please do not turn off your heart.” Windows 8 theme song i wanna be song download free

“I wanna be… your default browser…”

The song began to play, but not through his speakers. Through his house lights . The LED bulbs flickered in time: dun-dun-dun-dun… I wanna be… The microwave beeped the bassline. His smart fridge displayed lyrics: “Your cursor’s warmth… on a cold login.” The song swelled again, glitching into a dubstep

He first heard it during a sleepover at his cousin’s house in 2013. His cousin had a brand-new touchscreen laptop that booted in seven seconds flat. As the neon Start screen bloomed—electric blue, aqua green, tangerine orange—a shimmering synth arpeggio played. Then a robotic, Auto-Tuned voice sang:

And he runs.

It was cheesy, clumsy, and utterly hypnotic. Arjun’s cousin called it “the forbidden banger.” He said his dad ripped it from an old MSDN disc labeled “Beta_Flounder.” When Arjun asked for the file, his cousin laughed. “It’s not on Spotify. It’s not even on the Pirate Bay. It finds you.”

That night, he dug through his old external hard drive: “Backup_2014.” Inside a folder named System32_NotVirus (he was a dumb kid), he found it: IWannaBe.mp3 . Size: 0 bytes. Modified: January 1, 1601. He double-clicked. Underneath, a button: “I Wanna Be Shared