Does ANOTR's 'Talk To You' Sample an Old Song? The Voice Is 54 Ultra's

No older song is credited on 'Talk To You'. The track came out on 6 March 2026 from the Dutch house duo ANOTR on their own label, No Art, and the credits No Art supplied to YouTube list six writers: the duo's Jesse van der Heijden and Oguzhan Guney, the singer 54 Ultra, Jackson Shanks, Spilly Cave and Hank Korsan, who is listed as composer only. The voice that sounds like a vintage soul single belongs to 54 Ultra, the stage name of John Anthony Rodriguez, from northern New Jersey.

Seven months after release, 'Talk To You' is still reaching new listeners. On 24 October it was on the Shazam top 100 of 20 countries out of the 70 we check, 8th in Croatia, and Spotify's daily top 200s dated 22 October had it in 12 countries, from 25th in Belgium and 28th in the Netherlands down to 86th in the UK and 180th in Austria. And people still ask where it comes from. Google suggests 'talk to you anotr sample', 'talk to you anotr original sample', 'canzone originale' for Italian searchers, and the hook line “let me talk to you” followed by 'another sample', where 'another' is how many searchers spell ANOTR. Some only want the original mix, because remixes, a bootleg and an extended version turn up beside it; the original is the single ANOTR released on 6 March.

What the credits on 'Talk To You' show

When a track is built on another record, that record's writers usually join its credits. Sister Nancy's 'Bam Bam' sits inside HUGEL and SOLTO's 'Jamaican (Bam Bam)', and the two writers of a 1967 Eurovision winner share the credit on JADE's 'Angel of My Dreams' for its borrowed opening line. The credits for 'Talk To You' list those six writers and no one else. ANOTR produced it with Jackson Shanks and Hank Korsan. The writing happened in upstate New York, on one of the studio retreats the duo hold.

Is 54 Ultra's 'Talk 2 Me' the original 'Talk To You'?

The nearest thing to an older original is a different song. 54 Ultra released 'Talk 2 Me' on 28 February 2025, a year before 'Talk To You', and the title invites the guess. He wrote and produced it alone. We compared the two. Their lyrics share no run of four words, and 'Talk 2 Me' sits near 92 BPM in C sharp minor, where 'Talk To You' runs near 129 in B flat major.

The other candidate came later. On 25 June 2026, three and a half months after the hit, 54 Ultra put out 'Talk To You (54's Version)'. It is the same song, credited to the same six writers, and about three in four of the four-word runs in ANOTR's lyric reappear in his; he adds lines of his own. He keeps the tempo, about 129 beats per minute, drops the key a half step to A major, and in place of ANOTR's house beat our classifier hears a drum kit. It tags most of his version ska, funk and swing, where ANOTR's reads as disco and house.

Moment to moment his version swings harder between loud and soft: in our frame-by-frame level reading its loud moments run 7.8 times its quiet ones, against 4.4 times in ANOTR's, though ANOTR's has the deeper breakdown mid-song. Our classifier also hears a cheering crowd in its last 14 seconds. If you found a warmer, rougher 'Talk To You' and took it for the record the club version sampled, this is most likely what you heard, and it is the newer of the two.

What genre is ANOTR's 'Talk To You', and why does it sound old?

Wikipedia files 'Talk To You' under disco house, and our classifier agrees. The release lasts 3 minutes 11 seconds; the classifier tags most of it disco and house, adds funk in the sections it marks as the chorus, and hears a voice singing from about 0:31. The hook is one line, “Let me talk to you”, an invitation onto the dance floor. Around it the verses promise to raise the listener up, somewhere the singer says the two of them share, and to set everything alight.

Each element leans on older records, a soul singer's tone and disco drums at a house tempo, which is likely why it sounds sampled. The credits, though, name no older song.

'Talk To You' has stayed in the Shazam top 100 of between 18 and 23 countries on every daily reading since 2 October. Our bet for 1 December 2026: it is still in the Shazam top 100 of 15 or more countries.