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Sep 26, 2022 · Lene Nystrøm theorizes that using “Barbie Girl” in the movie would be too on-the-nose — or, in her words, “cheese on cheese.”. Søren Rasted, he of the once spiky hair, finds the whole ...
- Mike Wass
- I. The Rise of Aqua
- II. Writing and Recording “Barbie Girl.”
- III. The Video
- IV. Going Global
- V. The Lawsuit
- VI. The Aftermath
The roots of Aqua go back to a meeting between Danish musicians Søren Rasted and Claus Norreen in the late Eighties. Søren Rasted: Claus and I were about 18 when we met. I was into Simple Minds, David Bowie, and U2. He was a little more electro than I was and into Depeche Mode. We got an apartment together and our biggest goal was to make music eve...
In 1995, recording under original name Joyspeed, the quartet released its debut single, “Itsy Bitsy Spider.” The song was a minor hit in Sweden, but even the group admits that it wasn’t very good. Their sound changed when they got their hands on the Roland JV-2080, a synthesizer that was able to replicate the sounds of organic instruments like pian...
When “Barbie Girl” started taking off on the radio in Denmark, Universal decided to make a video for it. They hired director Peder Pedersen to make it. Peder Pedersen: I was just starting out as a director, and it was hard. The night before I got the request to do “Barbie Girl,” I was doing some grainy black-and-white art stuff in a basement. While...
The song hit just as new pop acts like Backstreet Boys and Spice Girls were taking over the charts. On Sept. 6, 1997, the song debuted at Number Seven on the Billboard Hot 100in America, sandwiched between Third Eye Blind’s “Semi-Charmed Life” and Dru Hill’s “Never Make a Promise.” It did even better in Australia and Europe. Dif:Shortly before this...
The CD booklet for Aqua’s album Aquariumincluded this sentence: “The song ‘Barbie Girl’ is a social comment and was not created or approved by the makers of the doll.” This wasn’t nearly enough to appease Mattel, and they filed a lawsuit against MCA in 2000. Russell Frackman (lawyer):The lawsuit had 11 different claims. They pretty much threw the k...
Aqua followed up Aquariumin 2000 with Aquarius. It sold well around the world, especially in Scandinavia, but stalled out at Number 82 in America. They took a break in 2001 that lasted until 2008. During this time, Nystrøm married Rasted and they had two kids. They separated six years ago. Nystrøm:We’re the best of friends. We have two teenage chil...
Personal life. Nystrøm was in a relationship for three years with fellow Aqua band member René Dif, who originally invited her to join the band in 1994. [10] On 25 August 2001, Nystrøm married fellow Aqua band member Søren Rasted, with the ceremony being held in Las Vegas.
FilmYearDirectorCharacter2009Ole BornedalPernilleSvik2009Håkon GundersenEva Karlsen2009Hoyt YeatmanJuarezVarg Veum – Skriften på veggen2010Stefan FaldbakkenKarin BjørgeSep 27, 2022 · Aqua members René Dif, Lene Nystrøm, and Søren Rasted talk about revisiting their debut album, the lasting power of ‘Barbie Girl,’ and what set them apart in the 90s pop landscape and today.
- Laura Stavropoulos
Sep 18, 2017 · Still, if you were bred in the ‘90s, you can’t hear the word "Barbie" without having that Aqua song—you know the one—make its way into your head. They made happy, strange music, the very ...
- Taylor Bryant
Sep 23, 2022 · Thirty-three million albums later, I caught up with Dif, Lene Nystrøm, and Søren Rasted to go back to where all it began and talk about where they still hope to go.
The band's members are vocalists René Dif and Lene Nystrøm, keyboardist Søren Rasted, and guitarist Claus Norreen. During their split, Nystrøm, Dif and Rasted all achieved solo chart success, while Norreen remixed other artists' material.
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