Attention Everybody: Aqua Is Back (And They’re Looking Back)

noah | August 8, 2008 4:00 am
A long, long time ago (by which I mean nine months), we first heard talk of a reunion by the Norwegian pop group Aqua, I guess in honor of the fact that their Mattel-angering hit “Barbie Girl” is now 11 years old. Well, they have come back indeed, and they have a new song… which, for some reason, is a look back at the ’80s, and not the decade that they’re so identified with. Perhaps they are trying for some more-retro-than-reality image shift? Or maybe they just know what gets audiences cheering, given that the lyric that uses the words “David” and “Hasselhoff” gets a roaring ovation from the crowd. (Even if you do count Baywatch, sticking him in a song about the ’90s just seems a little cheap.) [YouTube]