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With the caller movie Barbie taking implicit the summer, Europop set Aqua has reentered the spotlight arsenic the film’s soundtrack features a sampling of their 1997 deed “Barbie World.” The radical — René Dif, Lene Nystrøm, and Søren Rasted — helped boost their renewed presumption arsenic well, arsenic they embarked connected a satellite circuit and shared snaps of it to their Instagram. While they whitethorn added a fewer trips astir the prima since their heyday, the set inactive rocked retired and looked unthinkable doing it!
One IG station included a carousel of sassy snaps from their caller show with Paris Hilton at Dreamland Pride successful Central Park, New York. The edifice heiress posed backstage with Rene and Lene, who wore matching reddish ensembles. “@dreamlandpride past nighttime was 1 to remember!!! 🌈And erstwhile more, acknowledgment for having @parishilton 💗,” they captioned the pics. Both set members looked fantastic, arsenic a follower commented, “PrettyNice outfits, foxy pair.”
Another much caller societal media station had a video of Aqua’s archetypal circuit halt successful the U.S. The band’s vigor was evidently infectious arsenic the assemblage went chaotic successful the clips. “America, this is lone the beginning… Stay tuned💗💗💗,” they wrote connected July 8. Once again, their fans couldn’t assistance but remark connected their caller look, with 1 writing, “This amusement was ahhhmazing!!! And truthful were the lewks!!!”
When “Barbie Girl” burst onto the scene, it took the satellite by storm, becoming a taste sensation. The whimsical tune — with lyrics similar “you tin brushwood my hair, undress maine everywhere” — dominated euphony charts crossed respective countries, including the U.K., Australia, France, and the Netherlands. It adjacent climbed to an awesome No. 2 presumption connected the esteemed Billboard Dance Singles illustration successful the U.S. Although it did find immoderate backlash aboriginal one, with Rolling Stone readers naming it “the worst opus of the Nineties” successful a 2011 poll.
As mentioned, the opus experienced a revival done its inclusion successful the soundtrack of Barbie. Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice joined forces to make a way with the aforesaid title, infusing it with their unsocial benignant and flair. They sampled Aqua’s iconic hook and incorporated it into their rap. The caller opus whitethorn person adjacent helped certified Aqua’s archetypal 1997 “Barbie Girl” deed arsenic triple platinum, which was celebrated connected July 8.
Aqua successful 1998. (Steve Fenton/Shutterstock)
The opus besides had a spot of a caput commencement to the Barbie movie resurgence phenomenon. Aqua had reissued their debut medium Aquarium for its 25th day successful 2022, implicit with the azygous “Barbie Girl.” The set spoke EXCLUSIVELY with HollywoodLife astatine the clip and waxed connected astir the song’s legacy.
“[‘Barbie Girl’] sticks to your brain, and the kids wanted to perceive it implicit and implicit again, and you can’t truly flight from it,” Lene told HollywoodLife. “We 1 stood successful beforehand of a writer who was truly aggressive, and helium said, ‘do you consciousness similar this euphony is making radical much anserine than they are,’ and I retrieve answering that if helium wanted to telephone 25 cardinal radical stupid, that’s connected you and past we near [laughs]. When thing becomes truthful popular, determination volition beryllium radical hating it too.”
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