I think both of those would be pretty awesome. Would you consider that? Has it ever come up?ĭiff: I think Aqua should experience two things: a residency in Vegas, maybe two weeks or a month, and Coachella. Your show would be a lot of fun as a residency in Las Vegas. Thompson: I've seen some of your live shows on YouTube, and you put a lot of effort into them. When we came back, we wanted to focus on the concerts. We were in one country one day and another the next, and that's fun but also really exhausting. There wasn't time to stay in countries and explore we were just going around the world three times to do promotion. Before that, and especially when Aquarium came out, we were in high demand worldwide. Nystrøm: We've been touring like this since we reunited in 2008. Thompson: So you do it more now because you want to rather than because you have to? Now it's something we can have fun with every once in a while. It is no longer taking up our whole lives like it did in the beginning. Rasted: Doing 30 or 40 concerts a year as we do now makes Aqua a valuable gift for us. Headlining around the world, we don't have to sit and talk about ourselves in 20 interviews a day we can just go out on stage and focus on what we want to do: play live, meet the fans, and enjoy our musical family on the road. We've always worked harder than other bands, working our asses off to convince people that we're more than one-hit wonders. Because we've been doing this for so many years, we've gathered an audience who keep coming back. We are one of the few pop bands from the 90s who have taken live shows seriously, and we play live. Rasted: We can brag about ourselves here because we've always been an amazing live band. It's a fantastic feeling, and it feels like give and take.ĭif: It's amazing to see that from the first second of the song, the audience is waiting for it to explode. There's a good feeling around the whole song for me now, and I love going on stage and seeing the audience's anticipation. Playing “Barbie Girl” today is different from playing it back then because of the fights and the miscommunications. When we go on stage, we still have the same hunger, and the audience is there because they think it would be a good concert to see. Lene Nystrøm: Honestly, I have to say it's both. Thompson: Do you still get a buzz from it? Is it now more about the buzz from the crowd rather than the track itself? Abbotsford Centre in British Columbia, Canada. Lene Nystrøm and René Dif of Aqua on stage during the 90's Nostalgia Electric Circus Edition at. Rasted: I think we heard it 100,000 times even before it came out (laughs). Thompson: How many times have you performed “Barbie Girl”? When “Turn Back Time” became number one as the third single, that was when we were really happy. Jones” came out as the follow-up and was number one. However, we had a fantastic record company, especially in the UK, so it was a huge relief when “Dr. We knew we had a hit, but we had no idea it was going to be so big, and, to be honest, after a while, we were very afraid we would be a one-hit wonder. We had two number ones in Denmark and Norway with “Roses Are Red” and “My Oh My.” “Barbie Girl” was the third single and was released everywhere. How dramatic and instantaneous was the change for you guys? Thompson: “Barbie Girl” was the lead rack off the album internationally. Aquarium is an album that just won't be killed. Rasted: “Barbie Girl” was a bubble gum pop track that you might have thought would have died a lot earlier.
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