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‘If you can’t beat them, join them’ goes the old saying which might explain why Aqua, the world famous Danish-Norwegian europop band, are the latest 90’s act to decide to put their colourful life and times on the stage.<\/p>\n
Aqua\u2019s Barbie Girl is without a doubt one of the definitive pop anthems of the late 90s and the early 2000s.<\/p>\n
And just like plastic, the song was absolutely everywhere. The song\u2019s aesthetic captures the era in all of its colourful \u2018kitschness.\u2019<\/p>\n
The lyrics, an ode to senseless materialism and sex \u2013 \u201cI’m a blond bimbo girl in a fantasy world. Dress me up, make it tight, I’m your dolly,\u201d sings lead singer Lene Nystrom in her Barbie role, with Ken, played by Ren\u00e9 Dif, replying: \u201cKiss me here, touch me there, hanky-panky.\u201d<\/p>\n
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You just had to be barely conscious in 1997, when it was originally released, and probably for a decade later. Double check, the song might as well be etched somewhere on your brain\u2019s frontal lobe, always ready to become your earworm for the day if you catch us as much as a note of the tune.<\/p>\n
Aqua\u2019s megahit was both disavowed as an epitome for everything wrong with the culture at the turn of the millennium (Rolling Stone magazine voted it the worst song of the 1990s) and appreciated as one of the first voices that raised the alarm about the reckless overconsumption and commercialism of the noughties.<\/p>\n
Love them or loathe them, Nystrom believes their continued popularity across a very wide fan base over the years has earned them a deserved place in pop history.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not always popular to say, you listen to Aqua. Let me remind you about that. But our fans are so loyal and to our concerts they dress up, they have fun. They don\u2019t give a s*** what people say. And that\u2019s us, you know, so it\u2019s like a mirror of all of us in a sense,” says Nystrom.<\/p>\n