Do Flower Boys Dream of Utopian Cities?

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"Do Flower Boys Dream of Utopian Cities?" is a song written and composed in 1982 by South Korean poet Bong Soo-young and Irish musician Matthew Gallacher during a songwriting camp in Los Angeles, United States. With a title based off Phillip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep accompanied by lyrical themes of daydreaming and yearning, a chorus demo was recorded by Gallacher's indie pop band Toxic Cupid and was supposed to be released in 1985, but shelved due to creative differences between him and the other bandmates. The track was pitched to multiple Western pop artists, but was never successfully released and eventually abandoned to time.

In 2022, the only known existing demo tape of "Do Flower Boys Dream of Utopian Cities?" was recovered by Gallacher, and he began to recreate its melody. In November 2023, while spearheading an international songwriting workshop in Seoul, he was able to enlist musicians Xavier Luna and Jay Kang to record the song as a collaboration duet. On January 1, 2024, after 40 years, the song was released for the first time, topping the charts in 14 countries including South Korea, where it peaked atop the chart for three weeks. Gallacher, Luna, and Kang's arranging work for the song was nominated for Best Arrangement, Instrumental, and Vocals at 67th Annual Grammy Awards, and a solo rendition was performed by Jay Kang at the 2024 Hangang Artistry Awards, with music discussion website BrokenHeadphones.KR ranking it as their user-voted #1 song of 2024.