In our ongoing journey, we are covering many exceptional songs. But from time to time we also have to give a nod to the terrible ones. Some atrocious anthems turned into massive master-strokes and in order to have a holistic education you obviously need to know about these as well.

So without further ado we present the Danish-Norwegian band Aqua. Mostly considered a one-hit wonder outside their native countries they landed a huge international hit with “Barbie Girl” that in the UK to this day remains one of the best-selling singles ever. It certainly did not hurt sales that they were sued by Mattel, the manufacturer of the eponymous doll (Mattel lost, being advised to “chill” by the judge).

Shortly after the lawsuit Mattel changed the proportions of the doll slightly – for only the third time since the first models were sold in 1959.