Picture it: 1997, a college dorm. Drunk students are playing Bust a Move on every TV. ICQ keeps shouting “uh oh”. And in the air, a song. A K-Pop song.
It had a high pitch instrument playing that sounded quite a bit like the high pitch part of
Ace of Base’s Don’t turn Around, but more catchy. It might have been about trees. Or it had a word that sounded like “trees”. Or someone was so stoned he told everyone the song was about trees. I don’t know. But I need to get it out of my head, and to do that I need to find the song.
There was also a song in Chinese (not sure if Mandarin or Cantonese) that was a huge hit with a lot of the students from Arcadia/LA and the Bay Area. It’s a hokey song a man sings about buying his sweetheart a new dress, a pretty new dress. It was often referred to as The [recent immigrant] Song, although whether that was due to the content or just the quality of the singing I don’t know.
Anyone have any idea what either song could be?
