Talk:AJ Gil

I Try
There's at least one other song by Gil that I've found that I haven't mentioned anywhere in the article, because the only source for it is a YouTube video uploaded by a random account. The song is called "I Try" and can be found here. I feel that in order to mention a song in this article, it should either be discussed by a reputable third-party source, or else, there should at least be a primary source available. Since the account that uploaded the video for "I Try" doesn't appear to be affiliated with Gil in anyway, I won't treat it as a primary source. If anyone has further information on this song, please share! Thanks! --Jpcase (talk) 02:37, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
 * I just found the song on one of Gil's official ReverbNation accounts (Gil seems to have more than one ReverbNation account). "I Try" (stylized as "I TRY") can be found on this account, which should be acceptable to use as a primary source. An upload date for the song isn't included on ReverbNation, but the aforementioned YouTube video seems to make clear that the song was released in 2008. As established, I can't use the YouTube video as a source, so I won't mention the release date for "I TRY" anywhere within the prose of this article. But I don't think that there should be anything controversial about specifying the song's release date as 2008 in the "Singles" table, found in this article's "Discography" section. --Jpcase (talk) 15:34, 8 July 2019 (UTC)

A few other songs
A few other songs of Gil's that I haven't been able to track down are mentioned on this forum, although of course, the forum can't be used as a source. The songs are called "Bump in the Trunck" (I'm assuming that the forum user misspelled this and that the title is actually "Bump in the Trunk", but who knows?), "What Do You Like", and "Cell Phone". I recall seeing at least one or two of these songs mentioned on Twitter, but I haven't been able to find anything super concrete about the songs, so I've decided not to mention any of them in the article. As with the song mentioned above, if anyone has further information, then please share! Thanks! --Jpcase (talk) 16:26, 1 November 2018 (UTC)

Song title capitalization
A few of the song titles listed in the discography section use non-standard capitalization. This is because that's how the song titles are written in primary sources that I've found. Because these particular songs were never included on an album or mixtape, the primary sources in question are accounts on YouTube, Reverbnation, Soundcloud, etc, belonging to Gil and related artists - it's possible that when the songs were uploaded to these websites, their titles were entered incorrectly. But it's also quite possible that the titles are intended to use non-standard capitalization. So I've decided to stick with the capitalization found in the sources. --Jpcase (talk) 16:24, 16 December 2018 (UTC)


 * Song capitalizations need to follow the manual of style that can be found at MOS:MUSICCAPS, which also lead to MOS:TITLECAPS. As such I have fixed the capitalizations to match the manual of style. Aspects (talk) 05:03, 9 August 2019 (UTC)

"I Got the Hots for You"
This May 2003 article from MTV says that Gil's first single was to be titled ""I Got the Hots for You". The article says that this song was to be released "in the coming weeks", which matches up with the July 2003 release date of Gil's actual first single, "She's Hot". I'm guessing that either a last minute change in the song's title and lyrics occurred or else MTV may have misreported the song's title. It's also possible that this is just a completely different song that was never released. I haven't been able to find anything else online that mentions Gil recording a song titled "I Got the Hots for You", so there's no way of knowing exactly what happened - but it's clear that no song by this title was ever released. --Jpcase (talk) 14:11, 16 July 2019 (UTC)