Dubai Nostalgia
This messaging app made read receipts stressful before WhatsApp existed.
What is BlackBerry Messenger?
This song’s opening sleigh bells give it away instantly.
What is All I Want for Christmas Is You?
This film has been running continuously in a Mumbai cinema since 1995.
What is Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge?
The mother in the title is never the true subject; the story is really about five friends arguing in a booth under a yellow umbrella, in a city that plays the sixth character.
What is How I Met Your Mother?
The video for this 1995 pop anthem featured the band performing on a rooftop with a giant Pakistani flag, and it remains the unofficial second national anthem.
What is "Dil Dil Pakistan" by Vital Signs?
This annual event kept malls open past midnight and defined winter weekends.
What is Dubai Shopping Festival?
This song is festive but lyrically about emotional avoidance.
What is Last Christmas?
This actor defined the modern Bollywood romantic lead.
Who is Shah Rukh Khan?
She's known as the 'Queen of Soul' and sang the famous song 'Respect'—and she got her start singing gospel at Harlem's Apollo Theater.
Who is Aretha Franklin?
This band’s 1992 hit ‘Yaar Bina’ was a mournful rock ballad that became an anthem for separated lovers during the cable TV boom.
What is "Yaar Bina" by Strings?
This school-board acronym instantly brings back exam stress for Dubai students.
What is KHDA?
This song was written for Thanksgiving, not Christmas.
What is Jingle Bells?
It's the only Bollywood film where the entire story is told backwards, yet the closing song plays forwards, symbolizing a life lived in reverse.
What is Ludo?
This Brooklyn-born rapper made one of hip-hop's most famous albums, Illmatic, which is all about growing up in the Queensbridge projects.
Who is Nas?
In 2004, this singer’s rebellious pop-rock track ‘Bolo Bolo’ featured a leather-clad woman in sunglasses and challenged social norms with its ‘speak up’ lyrics.
What is "Bolo Bolo" by Sajjad Ali?
This area symbolized “old Dubai wealth” before Marina became dominant.
What is Jumeirah?
This Christmas song charted decades after its original release.
What is Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree?
Despite its title promising a lavish wedding, the film's plot is actually about stopping one.
What is Monsoon Wedding?
Before he was a movie star, this actor worked as a bouncer at a famous New York nightclub and later wrote and starred in the play This Is Our Youth.
Who is Mark Ruffalo?
Before becoming a TV host, this singer had a huge pop hit in 2004 called ‘Mahi Ve’ that played everywhere during cricket season.
Who is Shehzad Roy?
This childhood luxury in Dubai later became the bare minimum.
What is air conditioning everywhere?
This song’s annual success is driven more by streaming than radio.
What is Last Christmas?
It's named after the powerful father, but the real story is all about his rebellious son's doomed love affair.
What is Mughal-e-Azam?
This famous Manhattan nightclub from the 1970s had a giant moon and spoon hanging over the dance floor, and celebrities like Andy Warhol and Bianca Jagger partied there
What is Studio 54?
This Pakistani pop-rock band had a major hit in 1992 with ‘Yaar Bina,’ a sad love song that defined the era.
Who is Strings?