Olive Tree dream While continuing to work in the classical field, Lee also turned his attention to pop music. He couldn't stand the schmaltzy love tales that characterized Mandarin pop lyrics, and he always found the music itself excessively influenced by Japanese teeny-bopper styles. Thus he took his background in academic music and plunged headfirst into the vulgar world of pop, determined to refine the genre and bring it to a higher level.
夢中的橄欖樹古典作品外，李泰祥因聽不慣國語歌曲充斥著愛恨交纏的委靡濫情，曲風又過份東洋化，於是毅然以學院科班身分投入通俗的流行音樂，並發願要將流行歌曲帶往一個嶄新的境界。