There's no scarcity of one-hit wonders who are actually worth millions. If a track is large enough, the cash generated from it might remaining a life-time. That is if the musician has any foresight and the right financial marketing consultant. Like one-hit wonders such as Vanilla Ice, many lovers wonder what happened to Aqua, the Danish-Norwegian band liable for "Barbie Girl".
"Barbie Girl" was an rapid hit when it was launched in 1997. While no track critic looked as if it would consider that "Barbie Girl" was once prime artwork, the vast majority of them may just see that it used to be a pop culture sensation. The bubblegum pop tune was amusing, well put together, and insanely catchy. In 2022, the band is still traveling with it as they are trying to sell their tune to a larger market than simply their diehard and totally dependable fanbase. But "Barbie Girl" got into a large number of bother when it used to be launched. One of the causes used to be that some critics loathed the overtly sexual nature of the music's content and meaning. Then, after all, the owners of the product that the band was reputedly parodying have been positively irate...
Is "Barbie" By Aqua Inappropriate?
Of path, the solution to this question is entirely in the eye of the beholder. In Mattel's eyes (the corporate that owns Barbie and Ken), the music was once downright debauchery, and they have been furious when it became successful. Of course, their dissatisfaction and eventual lawsuit towards Aqua would mean nothing to the fans. As of 2017, the destroy hit music has bought more than 8 million copies and has done wonders for the debut album, "Aquarium".
Six months after the song was released, Mattel sued Aqua through MCA Records, who owned their North American rights. In their lawsuit, they claimed that the track "violated their trademark" and grew to become the healthy Barbie toy right into a intercourse object. This lawsuit went on for years and sparked a countersuit from Aqua against Mattel. Both have been thrown out by way of a pass judgement on in 2022. According to Medium, Judge Alex Kozinski stated that the music was once secure under the First Amendment as it used to be obviously a parody. It's reported that he even mentioned, "[Both] the parties are advised to chill".
In an interview with Bulon, Aqua's lead singer, Lene Nystrøm, claimed that Mattel warped the which means of the tune and made it way more sexual than it actually was once. Sure, there were a few suggestive lyrics, but that wasn't their message. Nor did they imply to sound misogynistic. According to Lene, this interpretation was fully created via Mattel.
"I do believe that Mattel saw an opportunity to get some attention. Because the song was quite innocent, and it wasn’t sexist at all; it wasn’t our point to make the song sexist, at least," Lene defined. "It was kind of more making fun of the Pamela Anderson kind-of girl that was existing at that time, and still are, of course. But it’s a super-innocent song if you listen to all the other s*** that’s out there, you know?"
What Is The Meaning Of "Barbie Girl"?
Even though Lene Nystrøm blames Mattel for the misrepresentation of the that means of the track, the writer of the Medium article and the interviewer at Rolling Stone who did Aqua's recent oral history both mentioned that the song had some sexually suggestive lyrics. They come with, "I’m a blond bimbo girl in a fantasy world", "Dress me up, make it tight, I’m your dolly," in addition to the somewhat iconic, "You can brush my hair, undress me everywhere."
But according to Aqua's René Dif, this wasn't the which means of the music at all.
"The message is that it’s OK to be the person you are and look the way you look and be confident in that," René stated to Rolling Stone. "You don’t necessarily have to have plastic surgeries to be a better person. All these metaphors in the song were taboo to talk about, but we came out with a tongue-in-cheek way to present our song. It’s a pop song, but it’s also a song about how it’s OK to be who you are, love who you are, and be yourself."
Despite this, any other member of Aqua, Søren Rasted admitted that some portions have been a tad sexual.
"It was, of course, a song about plastic surgeries. Other parts of the songs were just sexual," Søren mentioned. "When we had the lawsuit from Mattel, which came later, the lawyers made us change the story. They said, 'Please don’t say it’s anything sexual.' But we were not really trying to make a statement. We were just trying to write a fun song."
While many song lovers are all the time trying to decipher the meaning of one hit wonders like "Barbie Girl", the band's lead singer believes this is lacking the level...
"It’s tongue-in-cheek. It’s pop music," Lene Nystrøm added. "If you want to see the layers to it, there’s all the layers you want. But we kind of took the p*** out of the Pamela Anderson Baywatch perfect picture with silicon b**bs. We wanted to take the p*** out of that kind of perfect girl. That was the main thing we discussed. We didn’t say it very often, but that was the main thing behind it."
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