View source for Dreams 4ever aka "La Canción de Alicia" (found full version of Bad Influence song; 2018)

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|title=<center>"Alicia's Song"</center>
|image=AliceSong.jpg
|imagecaption=Part of the song was in a video edit with scenes from Disney's animated film, ''Alice in Wonderland''.
|status=<span style="color:orange;">'''Partially Found'''</span>
}}
'''''"Alicia's Song"''''' (known in Spanish as ''"La Canción de Alicia"'') is the name given to an incomplete song of unknown origin and author first shared on Facebook in 2021. An internet search has since formed to find the real name of the track, and if possible, its full version.

==Background==
The oldest known record of the song dates back to July 5, 2021, when a Facebook user named Jitomate Triste shared the only known fragment in various groups asking if anyone knew its name. Part of the song was in a video edit with scenes from Disney's animated film, ''Alice in Wonderland''. The shared snippet was 1 minute and 4 seconds long. Jitomate Tristes's posts did not attract the attention of other users, so they were quickly put aside. Shortly after, their Facebook account would be deactivated and has not been seen since then.

The original video was re-uploaded to YouTube by another user a couple of days later. Said re-upload would attract the attention of some people in September of that same year, starting a search.

=== Track Information ===
The song is not recognizible with Shazam or any other music recognition app, and putting the lyrics to Google doesn't return any results.

The genre of the song has been described as New-Wave, alternative rock or psychedelic rock. Due to the audio's poor quality––which includes a noticeable echo-––it is thought that Alicia's Song is not recorded in a studio, but a live recording or a song demo. An important fact to note is that, despite the song's English lyrics, the vocalist does not seem to be a native speaker due to their accent and the pronunciation of some words. The most popular theory suggests that the vocalist is a native Spanish speaker, with Chile and Argentina being the two most commonly suggested countries of origin.

== Discarded Artists ==
=== Gin & Tonic ===
In mid-October 2021, a YouTube user named 'Yo yoyo' suggested that the band that could made the song was called Gin & Tonic. The band in question existed, was of Chilean origin and was formed in 2001, breaking up at some point in 2005. The group only had one album titled ''Free as the Sun'', with the peculiarity of being sung in English.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20041030142422/http://www.bandasdechile.cl/banda_detalle.php?banda_id=1364 Archived Bandas de Chile's entry of Gin & Tonic.] Retrieved 23 Jul '22</ref>

Some concluded that the lead vocalist of Gin & Tonic had a voice similar of the singer from "Alicia's Song", in addition to the fact that the theme has a similar style of the band. However, when searching the ''Free as the Sun'' album and the band's demos, the song did not appear. Finally, at the end of October, some users contacted Ricardo Méndez, the Gin & Tonic's vocalist, who confirmed that they never made the song. Nevertheless, he released a cover by the name ''Under the Stars'' in his YouTube channel.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6R6-uPMi8E ''Under the Stars'' by Richardvox, an inspired cover realized by the Gin & Tonic's vocalist.] Retrieved 23 Jul '22</ref>

=== Other Discarded Artists ===
*Pitty Álvarez (Argentinian composer) 
*Hombres G (Spanish pop rock band)
*Oasis (English rock band)
*Pablo Romero (Árbol's vocalist, Argentinian alternative rock band) 
*Cursi (Uruguayan pop rock band)

== Gallery ==
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  |description1 =Jitomate Triste's video reupload, with the only known snippet of the song.
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==External Links==
*[https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gjJsCC2wX9o1YWRA8PiNlrvuuCN_KNZNScO-xH9qajU Lost Wave spreadsheet of unidentified songs, with Alicia's Song listed in it.]
*[https://www.reddit.com/r/LaCancionDeAlicia/ Reddit dedicated to research.]

==References==
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[[Category:Lost music|Alicia's Song]]
[[Category:Partially found media|Alicia's Song]]