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Miami 82

2013 song by Syn Cole and Madame Buttons

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ122766894 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Miami 82" is a song by Estonian DJ Syn Cole featuring Madame Buttons. The song was released as a digital download on December 13, 2013, through LE7ELS.

Background

The first vocal single, "Miami 82", was released in 2013 and remixed by Kygo and Avicii. The song reached No. 11 on Billboard's Club Play chart. His song and remix have received repeated airplay on BBC Radio 1 in the UK. The single "Miami 82" was used as background music for a 2018 Sprite TV commercial featuring members of Blackpink.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Miami 82” is 2013 song by Syn Cole and Madame Buttons. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Miami, song and Cole, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Miami, song and Cole is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2013 song by Syn Cole and Madame Buttons” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q122766894. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2018.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Miami 82”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Miami 82 primary sources, Miami 82 archive and Miami research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Miami 82”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Miami 82” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.