I am wading through hundreds of korean songs, trying to find that one that was popular in my first summer in Taiwan. There is beer and Euro 2016 involved. I can recognized Korean, but I can't speak enough to repeat the chorus. This puts me in a dilemma, because while Kpop is hideous, this one song is one of the catchiest songs in human history. I have gone for years assuming I would eventually run into it again, and I have, only no one present could ever tell me what it was. This is like hearing a song before the internet. I'm starting to doubt that it's a Korean song, but listening to 30 second samples of Korean top 100 from 2015 backwards is making me really worried about the sanity of my Korean friends, and my Taiwanese friends who allegedly like their music (it's not possible to like this. It's like the worst of 1980's pop, in a language that somehow makes it even sappier). I am proud that the dance crews who dance at the bridge late at night and partly get in my way while skating refuse to listen to this and instead play golden age hiphop.
There is only one other song that I still can't find: it was a bonus track on Doggystyle, at the end of it, and I didn't realize it was a bonus track until many years after my exgirlfriend had thrown my CD case and sundry other items of lesser emotional value and I was on a road trip with a friend and the album came on and that song wasn't there at the end, and to my astonishment, he wasn't aware that it should be.
My life is missing two songs.
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