Dreams 4ever
ⓘ This lostwave is classified as solved. | |
| Dreams 4ever | |
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| Alternative name(s) | La Canción de Alicia and Under The Stars |
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| 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, previously known as La Cancion De Alicia or Under The Stars, is a solved lostwave of the band Bad Influence.
Background
The song was uploaded to several 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 he was banned shortly after posting for unknown reasons.
On July 3, 2021, Daniel Gutierrez uploaded a screen recording of Jitomate Triste’s post on Facebook group “Lost Media Perdidos Posting”, which would be reuploaded on Youtube some days later.
Previous Leads
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.
On October 21, 2021, YouTube user @yoyoyo8230 posted the first of a series of 3 videos, titled ""La Canción de Alicia" (Lost Media) Misterio Revelado", each video being only a still drawing of Alice in Wonderland. The audio, although seemingly unrelated to the search, was made up of songs by a long-gone group nicknamed "Gin Toc", short for "Gin and Tonic". In the comment section of the videos, @yoyoyo8230 proceeded to give more details on how he came in possession of these tracks :
I have worked in a recording studio years ago and I have kept a LOT of material from Chilean bands who recorded in the studio : demos, rehearsals, studio versions.
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 the song. 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”.
Discovery
On 16 May 2024, the Reddit user JMike shared the discovery of the song. He had showed the snippet to a friend at university who said she had been a friend of one member of the band called "Bad Influence", which according to her, would be the band that produced the song.
In the same day, JMike found a video on the band page on Facebook titled "Barranco, Hipster City", which was a live performance of the song, proving that the band Bad Influence was actually the author of the song. The name of the song was revealed to be "Dreams 4ever", recorded sometime before 2018.
The band's guitarist spoke to the community on the Fond My Mind Discord server, saying they had created the trippy edit and posted it in a Facebook group, but sometime later it had been deleted by admins. This is likely where Jitomate Triste found the video and downloaded it.
"In 2019, I decided to make an edit of Alicia using an old demo we recorded and some gifs I found on Google, using Inshot on a 2gb ram phone lol. I couldn't convince the band to post the video on our page, so I uploaded it to the Indie 505 group, which was deleted a few hours later.
On 17 May 2024, the studio version was found, posted by JMike on the same day.