Nystrøm: I wasn’t a very competitive person, but my elbows came out and I was like, “You found her! You have to listen to this! Take me to Denmark. She said, “I can sing better than that.” I knew that we needed a girl to sing. We invited him into the group.ĭif: At one point, I played some of our music for Lene. Rasted: He was a different guy than anyone I had met before. Dif just happened to be working on a project in the same studio. When Rasted and Norreen were working on the soundtrack for Naughty Frida and the Fearless Spies, they needed a rapper for one of the songs. Nystrøm: He spent a couple of months flirting my pants off. Michael Jackson has always been my favorite, but when it comes to female singers, I have to go with Annie Lennox.ĭif: To make a long story short, Lene and I went out for a few years after meeting on the boat. I loved that since I grew up on classic rock like the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. But the last program I did, I was allowed to sing a cappella. When I look at the show now, it was totally corny. Lene Nystrøm: It was a totally silent role. One day, he noticed the young hostess of a Wheel of Fortune –type game on the ship. He got a job as a DJ on a boat that went back and forth between Norway and Denmark. They freaked out and thought it was cool. I actually went outside the DJ booth and started rapping without knowing what people would think about it. I was influenced by American DJs and rap music. I was also break dancing from when I was very young. Unlike many DJs on the scene, Dif liked to rap during his sets.ĭif: I thought to be a DJ that just stood there and played records was a little bit boring. But my all-time favorite, and always will be, is Rick Astley. It was funk, hip-hop, house, and then electro Erasure and Depeche Mode. René Dif: As a DJ, it was important for me to read the people in the club and know exactly what tune to put on to get them to dance. Right around this time, their compatriot René Dif was making a name for himself as a DJ on the Danish club circuit. (Former Aqua member Claus Norreen didn’t respond to our request for an interview.) Frackman, who represented their label in the lawsuit. We also interviewed “Barbie Girl” video director Peder Pedersen actor Mads Tagel, who played Ken in the video and attorney Russell J. To celebrate a quarter century of “Barbie Girl,” we spoke with Aqua members René Dif, Lene Nystrøm, and Søren Rasted about the formation of the group, the creation of “Barbie Girl,” the iconic music video, the song’s global explosion, the lawsuit from Mattel that followed, and their life in the aftermath. This past February, the video racked up its billionth view on YouTube, landing it an elite club alongside Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain.” Note: When you embed the widget in your site, it will match your site's styles (CSS).When the readers of Rolling Stone were asked to pick the worst song of the Nineties back in 2011, they didn’t go with “Macarena,” “Achy Breaky Heart,” “MMMBop,” “Mmm Mmm Mmm,” “Nookie,” or even “I’m Too Sexy.” The proud honor went to “ Barbie Girl.” And even if you’ve never heard of the Danish-Norwegian Europop group Aqua, you’ve definitely heard their song that proudly declares, “Life in plastic, it’s fantastic.” “Barbie Girl” was inescapable when it arrived 25 years ago, and it’s never truly gone away. Get the embed code Lady Aqua - Hello (I Want 'U Back With 'Ur Love) Album Lyrics1.Barbie Girl (I'm a Barbie Girl)2.Domino (Dirty Dancing in the Moonlight)3.Wonderland (I Don't Believe in Fairytales)Lady Aqua Lyrics provided by Hit the town, fool around, let's go party I can act like a star, I can beg on my kneesĬome jump in, bimbo friend, let us do it again, (uu-oooh-u) Make me walk, make me talk, do whatever you please (uu-oooh-u) Come on Barbie, let's go party! (uu-oooh-u) I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world You can touch, you can play, if you say: "I'm always yours" Kiss me here, touch me there, hanky panky. You're my doll, rock'n'roll, feel the glamour in pink, I'm a blond bimbo girl, in a fantasy worldĭress me up, make it tight, I'm your dolly You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere
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