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{{Infobox Lostwave
[[File:CancionDeAlicia.jpeg|right|thumb|The background of the original LCDA post was an Alice In Wonderland edit.]]
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|Name = Dreams 4ever
|Image = La Cancion de Alicia.png
|Caption =
|Alt_name =  La Canción de Alicia, Under The Stars
|Artist = Bad Influence
|Genre = Psychedelic Rock
|Year = 2018
|Status = Solved
|OP = Jitomate Triste
|Search_started =  July 3rd, 2021
|Search_ended = May 16th, 2024
|Media = Dreams4Ever.mp3
}}
'''Dreams 4ever''' (formerly known as "'''La Canción de Alicia'''" and "'''Under The Stars'''") is a solved psychedelic rock song that was popularized on the Facebook group Lost Media Perdidos Posting. On May 16th, 2024, the song was identified as Dreams 4ever by the Peruvian band Bad Influence.  


[[File:LCDA.mp3]]
==Background (July 2021)==
'''La Cancion De Alicia''', also known as '''Under The Stars''' and abbreviated as '''LCDA''', is an unsolved lostwave.
Sometime before July 3rd, 2021, a Facebook user named Jitomate Triste posted on Facebook, either in his private feed or in a private group, asking for the song's name. A video edit of the song, featuring footage from Disney's animated film Alice in Wonderland, was attached to the post. Jitomate Tristes' post received little attention and was dismissed.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20231123172455/https://www.facebook.com/1261341603/videos/3148428885376852/</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/LaCancionDeAlicia/comments/1be0xcd/lcda_lcda_related_timeline/</ref> 


== History ==
On July 3rd, 2021, Facebook user Daniel Gutierrez uploaded a screen recording of Jitomate Triste's post on the Facebook group "Lost Media Perdidos Posting",<ref>https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cj5ixC9WV5o66ciSr03SJWE8XWnfYeWQcImwOum6OUo/edit#heading=h.m9cluo6duc9h</ref> which would be reuploaded on YouTube by user Javk Ani- -ZnKyak on July 4th, 2021.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OmEBMn-ys</ref>  
LCDA was uploaded onto various Facebook groups before July 3, 2021. The lostwave snippet was uploaded along with an edit of Alice In Wonderland.   


Jitomate Triste was the original poster, but they were banned shortly after posting for unknown reasons. This drastically shot down the chances of finding the song, as Jitomate was no longer there to answer any questions.  
==Previous Leads (September 2021 - May 2024)==
The search gained traction in September 2021 on the Spanish internet, when it was initially uploaded on r/lostmedia and r/lostwave by users Longjumping-Table819 and GameMonkeyDev respectively.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/pisug4/hi_everybody_im_from_lost_media_perdidos_posting/</ref><ref name=":0">https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/pisug4/hi_everybody_im_from_lost_media_perdidos_posting/</ref> As the community grew, it became widely assumed that the singer was not a native English speaker and most likely had a Spanish accent.<ref name=":0" />


On July 3, 2021, Daniel Gutierrez uploaded a screen recording of Jitomate Triste’s post on Facebook group “Lost Media Perdidos Posting”.
In mid-October 2021, a YouTube user named 'Yo yoyo' suggested that Chilean alt-rock band Gin & Tonic could have created the song.<ref>https://www.discogs.com/release/30220364-Gin-Tonic-Free-As-The-Sun</ref> The band in question was formed in 2001, and split sometime in 2005. In 2003, the group released their first and only album, Free as the Sun, with English vocals and a similar musical style.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20041030142422/http://www.bandasdechile.cl/banda_detalle.php?banda_id=1364</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeCDTKGjbLo</ref>


The video would be reuploaded onto YouTube days later.
In late October, some people contacted Gin & Tonic's vocalist, Ricardo Méndez, who confirmed that the song was not created by him or his band. Later, Méndez would record a cover of "La Cancion De Alicia" on his channel, @richardvox, titled "Under The Stars".<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R6-uPMi8E</ref>


== The Search and Current Leads ==
==Discovery==
The search began gaining traction in September of that year. As a community began forming, it became widely thought that the singer is not a native English speaker and most likely has a Spanish accent. This opens the possibility of the song being from a Spanish-speaking country, like Argentina, Chile, Spain and many more.
On May 16th, 2024, Reddit user JMike_324 shared his discovery of the song, which he found after showing it to a friend at a university, who recognized it as being by the Peruvian band "Bad Influence".<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cttng2/we_found_la_cancion_de_alicia/</ref> They linked to a post from November 29th, 2018, in which the band performed the song live; the song's name was revealed to be "Dreams 4ever," and was recorded in November 2018.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/100063153434308/videos/2049906881755656/?mibextid=oFDknk&rdid=YyEfKwHGV0eJq1hE</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJRc3W3dk4</ref>


Ricardo Mendes of Gin & Tonic initially became a big lead, and one of the members of the lostwave community would reach out to him, asking if he recognized LCDA. Ricardo responded that he had never heard it before, but that he would love to make a cover of it for the community. Later down the line, Richard Mendez would release his cover of “La Cancion De Alicia” on his channel, @richardvox, naming the song “Under The Stars”.  
The band's guitarist created the Alice in Wonderland edit, which was uploaded to the Indie 505 Facebook page, but deleted an hour later by a moderator. This is where Jitomate Triste, presumably a member of the page, downloaded and re-uploaded the video.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cu276e/message_from_one_of_the_members_of_bad_influence/</ref>


In his short documentary on the lostwave, @YbxrdsGaming on YouTube said that “apart from a slight change in accent, the song sounded almost identical to the original snippet”.  
The following day, on May 17th, 2024, the studio version was found and posted by JMike_324 on his YouTube channel.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cu6z7c/la_canci%C3%B3n_de_alicia_hq_demo_version/</ref>


The search began to slow down. @YbxrdsGaming says that “Richard’s cover of the song was so good that some people in the community just gave up on the search and settled with Richard’s Under The Stars”.
== Lyrics ==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" role="presentation"
|'''Official Lyrics'''
|-
|'''(Verse 1)'''
Last night I could find, something warm
 
In the middle of the night it calls me
 
Between the life and death, you decide
 
A million miles away, it searches me
 
'''(Refrain)'''
 
When I see your face in the darkness night


The part of the community that still wanted to find the original song instead began looking into the edit the song was set to. Most of the gifs were identified to be taken from tumblr in the early-to-mid 2010s, as trippy Alice In Wonderland edits were widely circulated there due to the site's culture of aesthetic blogs. Current leads involve trying to find similar versions of the full edit posted on the internet before the original song was uploaded.
I just wanna be the only who change your mind


== Lyrics ==
But my life is real, you're a simple dream
When I see your face in the darkest night,
 
That remember me the love is a mystery
 
Oh please, let me be this boy, who you never forgot
 
I won't close my eyes, but somebody wake me up
 
'''(Verse 1)'''
 
Last night I could find, something warm
 
In the middle of the night it calls me
 
Between the life and death, you decide
 
A million miles away, it searches me
 
'''(Refrain)'''
 
When I see your face in the darkness night
 
I just wanna be the only who change your mind
 
But my life is real, you're a simple dream
 
That remember me the love is a mystery
 
Oh please, let me be this boy, who you never forgot
 
I won't close my eyes, but somebody will
 
When I see your face in the darkness night


I just wanna be only one that change your mind,
I just wanna be the only who change your mind


But my life is real, not a simple dream,
But my life is real, you're a simple dream


Then remembering that love is a misery,
That remember me the love is a misery


Oh please,
Oh please, let me be this boy, who you never forgot


Let me be this boy
I won't close my eyes, but somebody wake me up


Who you’ll never forgot
'''(Chorus)'''


I won’t close my eyes,
Look at me in the eyes


But somebody wake me up
Are you gonna stay by my side?


oh,
Spending nights together, together


oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, ohhh
Together under the stars


oh, oh ,oh, oh,
‘Cause nobody knows, you could be the first and the last


Yeahhhhh!
I'm sure it last forever, forever


Look at me in the eyes,
I would make you only mine
 
Look at me in the eyes


Are you gonna stay by my side?
Are you gonna stay by my side?


And spend the night together,
Spending nights together, together
 
Together under the stars
 
'''''(Guitar Solo)'''''
 
Look at me in the eyes
 
Are you gonna stay by my side? (''Oh, ooh-ooh'')


together,
Spending nights together, together (''Oh, oh'')


together under the stars.
Together under the stars (''Oh, oh, ooh-oh'')


Nobody knows,
‘Cause nobody knows, you could be the first and the last (''Ooh-oh, ooh-oh'')


You could be the first and the last,
I'm sure it last forever, forever (''Ooh-oh'')


Should we last forever?
I would make you only mine


forever?
Look at me in the eyes


I’ll make you only mine.
Are you gonna stay by my side? (''Ooh-oh, ooh-oh'')


Look at me in the eyes,
Someday, someday (Zun dada, Zun dada)


Are you gonna stay by my side?
'Cause nobody knows, you could be the first and the last (''Ooh-oh,ooh-oh, ooh-ooh'')
 
I'm sure it last forever, forever (''Ooh-ooh'')
 
I would make you only mine
 
'''(Outro)'''
 
Baby I’m still dreaming, for what it's worth I can’t
 
Baby believe me, why we just came back to the beginning?
 
Baby believe me, for what it's worth I can’t
 
Baby I’m still dreaming, why we just came back to the beginning?


And spend the night together,
Yeah!
|}


together,
== Personnel ==
[https://www.instagram.com/s4nta_nax10/ Diego Salcedo] – vocals


together under the stars.
[https://www.instagram.com/saldanatje/ Jesús Saldaña] – lead guitar


== External links ==
[https://www.instagram.com/bluntttt_t/ Flavio Román] – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
[https://youtu.be/K8YxpbTKHbo?feature=shared https://youtu.be/K8YxpbTKHbo] (YbxrdsGaming’s short documentary)


[https://youtu.be/rLFVfVrBZ_Q?feature=shared https://youtu.be/rLFVfVrBZ_Q?] (An early reupload of the song that gained lots of attention)
[https://www.instagram.com/ml_.carlos/ Carlos Mendoza] – drums


[[Category:Unidentified]]
==References==
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cj5ixC9WV5o66ciSr03SJWE8XWnfYeWQcImwOum6OUo/edit Information Document]
<references />
[[Category:Identified]]
[[Category:Psychedelic Rock]]
[[Category:The Golden Age Of Lostwave]]

Revision as of 12:30, 22 August 2024

ⓘ This lostwave is classified as solved.

Dreams 4ever
Alternative name(s) La Canción de Alicia, Under The Stars
Artist(s) Bad Influence
Genre Psychedelic Rock
Year 2018
Status Solved
Original poster Jitomate Triste
Search duration July 3rd, 2021 - May 16th, 2024
File:Dreams4Ever.mp3

Dreams 4ever (formerly known as "La Canción de Alicia" and "Under The Stars") is a solved psychedelic rock song that was popularized on the Facebook group Lost Media Perdidos Posting. On May 16th, 2024, the song was identified as Dreams 4ever by the Peruvian band Bad Influence.

Background (July 2021)

Sometime before July 3rd, 2021, a Facebook user named Jitomate Triste posted on Facebook, either in his private feed or in a private group, asking for the song's name. A video edit of the song, featuring footage from Disney's animated film Alice in Wonderland, was attached to the post. Jitomate Tristes' post received little attention and was dismissed.[1][2]

On July 3rd, 2021, Facebook user Daniel Gutierrez uploaded a screen recording of Jitomate Triste's post on the Facebook group "Lost Media Perdidos Posting",[3] which would be reuploaded on YouTube by user Javk Ani- -ZnKyak on July 4th, 2021.[4]

Previous Leads (September 2021 - May 2024)

The search gained traction in September 2021 on the Spanish internet, when it was initially uploaded on r/lostmedia and r/lostwave by users Longjumping-Table819 and GameMonkeyDev respectively.[5][6] As the community grew, it became widely assumed that the singer was not a native English speaker and most likely had a Spanish accent.[6]

In mid-October 2021, a YouTube user named 'Yo yoyo' suggested that Chilean alt-rock band Gin & Tonic could have created the song.[7] The band in question was formed in 2001, and split sometime in 2005. In 2003, the group released their first and only album, Free as the Sun, with English vocals and a similar musical style.[8][9]

In late October, some people contacted Gin & Tonic's vocalist, Ricardo Méndez, who confirmed that the song was not created by him or his band. Later, Méndez would record a cover of "La Cancion De Alicia" on his channel, @richardvox, titled "Under The Stars".[10]

Discovery

On May 16th, 2024, Reddit user JMike_324 shared his discovery of the song, which he found after showing it to a friend at a university, who recognized it as being by the Peruvian band "Bad Influence".[11] They linked to a post from November 29th, 2018, in which the band performed the song live; the song's name was revealed to be "Dreams 4ever," and was recorded in November 2018.[12][13]

The band's guitarist created the Alice in Wonderland edit, which was uploaded to the Indie 505 Facebook page, but deleted an hour later by a moderator. This is where Jitomate Triste, presumably a member of the page, downloaded and re-uploaded the video.[14]

The following day, on May 17th, 2024, the studio version was found and posted by JMike_324 on his YouTube channel.[15]

Lyrics

Personnel

Diego Salcedo – vocals

Jesús Saldaña – lead guitar

Flavio Román – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

Carlos Mendoza – drums

References

  1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20231123172455/https://www.facebook.com/1261341603/videos/3148428885376852/
  2. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/LaCancionDeAlicia/comments/1be0xcd/lcda_lcda_related_timeline/
  3. ↑ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cj5ixC9WV5o66ciSr03SJWE8XWnfYeWQcImwOum6OUo/edit#heading=h.m9cluo6duc9h
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OmEBMn-ys
  5. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/pisug4/hi_everybody_im_from_lost_media_perdidos_posting/
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 https://www.reddit.com/r/lostmedia/comments/pisug4/hi_everybody_im_from_lost_media_perdidos_posting/
  7. ↑ https://www.discogs.com/release/30220364-Gin-Tonic-Free-As-The-Sun
  8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20041030142422/http://www.bandasdechile.cl/banda_detalle.php?banda_id=1364
  9. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeCDTKGjbLo
  10. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R6-uPMi8E
  11. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cttng2/we_found_la_cancion_de_alicia/
  12. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/100063153434308/videos/2049906881755656/?mibextid=oFDknk&rdid=YyEfKwHGV0eJq1hE
  13. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhJRc3W3dk4
  14. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cu276e/message_from_one_of_the_members_of_bad_influence/
  15. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/Lostwave/comments/1cu6z7c/la_canci%C3%B3n_de_alicia_hq_demo_version/
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