Ace of Base is a Swedish pop group, originally consisting of Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg and three siblings, Jonas "Joker" Berggren, Malin "Linn" Berggren and Jenny Berggren. They released four studio albums between 1993 and 2002, which sold over 40 million copies worldwide. This makes them the third-most successful band from Sweden of all time, after ABBA and Roxette.
Happy Nation / The Sign is one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, and was certified nine times platinum in the United States. It was the first debut album to produce three number 1 singles on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart: "All That She Wants", "The Sign" and "Dont Turn Around".
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Following the formal departure of singer Linn in 2007, the band performed a series of concerts as a trio in Europe and Asia from 2007 through 2009. Jenny revealed in November 2009 that she would be taking indefinite leave from the band to focus on a solo career. In 2009, Jonas and Ulf recruited two new female vocalists, Clara Hagman and Julia Williamson, and released The Golden Ratio in September 2010.
"Beautiful Life" is a song by Swedish band Ace of Base, released in October 1995. In North America, it was the first single released from The Bridge; in Europe, it followed "Lucky Love". The song was written on January 1, 1994 by band member Jonas Berggren while he was in the Canary Islands. His earlier song "The Sign" had just hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Berggren incorporated gospel elements into the song, and the single proved quite successful worldwide, reaching #15 on the Billboard Hot 100 in December, 1995 and on the UK Singles Chart. It also hit #1 on the U.S. Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.
Ace Of Base - Beautiful Life
You can do what you want just seize the day What youre doing tomorrows gonna come your way Dont you ever consider giving up You will find, oooh
Its a beautiful Life, oooh *3 I just wanna be here beside you And stay until the break of dawn
Take a walk in the park when you feel down Therere so mant things there thats gonna lift you up See the nature in bloom, a laughing child Such a dream, oooh
Its a beautiful Life, oooh *3 I just wanna be here beside you And stay until the break of dawn
Youre looking for somewhere to belong Youre standing all alone For someome to guide you on your way Now and forever
Its a beautiful Life, oooh *3
I just wanna be anybody Were living in different ways
Its a beautiful life, oooh...
P.S. I miss them a lot, they all had so very nice voices... I was quite a fan when I was small and I used to listen to ABBA, Roxette and Ace of Base non-stop. I would wait for their songs to come up at the radio and tape them on the casette. It was so hard sticking the cord in time so you would catch the full song... and there was always that moment when the radio broadcaster would say something in mid-song and then you would start it all over again :) Oh, the good times!
Today I shall tell you about a special Romanian band, a band that I listen to even since I was a teenager. You probably never heard of it before but it is very dear to me so I need to share at least a song from them with you :) Taxi is a Romanian pop-rock band. Their sound is an eclectic mix of rock and contemporary pop, occasionally introducing other influences such as hot Nashville-style guitar licks. The band was founded March 13 (guess why I wanted to present them to you this month?! :p), 1999 in Bucharest. Dan Teodorescu, songwriter, lead vocalist and the bands leader, first recruited Adrian Bortun, with whom he had previously played in Altceva ("Something Else"). Bortun recruited his former bandmate Andrei Bărbulescu from Sarmalele Reci ("The Cold Sarmale"; sarmale are meat rolls with cabbage - traditional romanian dish served usually with mamaliga); Dan recruited Georgică Pătrănoiu with whom he had also played before. Their first Romanian hit was "Criogenia salvează România" ("Cryogenics saves Romania"), which gained them fans even among the members of the Romanian Parliament with its ironic political lyrics.
Hai să ne băgam cu toţii-n nişte frigidere mari
Să ne congelăm pentru vreo sută de ani
Şi să-i aşteptăm liniştiţi pe-americani
Poa să vină japonezii, poa să vină şi nemţii
Să ne facă reformă că noi nu avem pretenţii
Doar atât le vom cere: să nu ne uite-n frigidere
- Dan Teodorescu - "Criogenia salvează România"
Lets put ourselves all in some huge refrigerators
To freeze for about 100 years
And let the Americans come and solve our problems.
Even the Japanese and the Germans may come
To reform our economy;
We will not complain, but we have a small thing to ask:
"Please, do not forget us in the fridge!..."
It was followed by an EP Jumătate de album (Half an album), after which drummer Andrei Bărbulescu left and was replaced by Lucian Cioargă. Shortly after their song "Luna" ("The Moon") became the Romanian nominee to the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest. They came in seventeenth, a higher rank than any other Romanian band ever had, but disappointing nonetheless. A few months after the Festival in Stockholm, they debuted an English-language song called "E.B.U - European Broadcasting Union": "We played poker by their rules... But in the end, they told us that four jacks are stronger than four aces." The song continues on, using an obscene expletive to express their disregard for the contest.
Taxi welcomed the 2000 millennium with a song "Doi zero zero zero" ("Two zero zero zero"). Jumătate de album was expanded in July 2000 to a full album Trag un claxon (Honk a Horn). A succession of Romanian hist included "Comunitaru" ("Stray Dog"), which addresses Bucharests plan of spaying and euthanizing ownerless dogs from the point of view of one of the dogs. The song describes, ironically, the state of the Romanian economy and society, then goes on to a chorus:
Castraţi-mă, castraţi-mă,
Sau, dacă vreţi, eutanasiaţi-mă,
Pentru că singura voastră problemă
Sunt eu, câinele comunitar.
- Dan Teodorescu, "Comunitaru"
(Castrate me, castrate me,
Or, if you like, euthanize me,
Because your only problem
Is me, the stray dog.)
This appeared on their 2001 album Americanofonia, the title track of which is a song about the flood of English-language expressions entering Romanian:
Business, meeting, briefing, trading,
Casting, shopping, fashion, trend,
Dealer, broker, leader, joker,
Manager, advertising, P.R., brand,
Lobby, hobby, weekend, party,
Timeout, fifty-fifty, supermarket, copyright,
Discount, cash, card, net, mail, chat, standby,
D.J., V.J., L.P., C.D., bye-bye!
Oops, yeah...
Suntem anglofoni, americanofoni,
Suntem bu-bu, bu-bu, bu-bufoni.
- Dan Teodorescu, "Americanofonia"
(Were English-speakers, American-speakers,
Were foo-foo foo-foo foo-fools.)
Teodorescu was married for four years to Melania Medeleanu; the autumn 2006 divorce was amicable, and Medeleanu sings on one track of the 2007 Taxi album Romantica. There are several other collaborators on the album, including Cheloo of Paraziţii. In late 2010, they released the single "Cele două cuvinte" (The two words). The video featured more than two dozen male Romanian celebrities (actors, singers, TV personalities, athletes, filmmakers) explaining mens inability to say "I LOVE YOU" and became a YouTube hit, receiving more than 1,500,000 views in less than 2 months.
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The song of today is named Te Vad In Toate Femeile (I See You In All The Other Women) and it is a wonderful ballade about the way a man passes through the ending of the relationship with the one he loves.
The lyrics talk about how he is trying to have a normal life, how he has no problem with that - that he is just existing now, no longer living. He drinks his coffee as usual, he has walks in the evening and maybe sometimes he thinks of her... The chorus is beautiful and basically states that he is looking for her in all the women he is meeting or the ones that he sometimes wants physically. He still sees her in all the women he has the impression that he loves... The rests of the song tells his daily struggle of shutting her out of his mind but not succeeding that. It is sad when we also find out that he sometimes meets her friends, that in the meanwhile they become his friends as well and they do tell him that sometimes she asks about him as well...
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For me this song is also the story about 2 very stubborn people... We know that he made the mistake, from how the lyrics are written but we know not what separated them. The lack of communication though is a problem!
