« S CLUB 7 – “Bring It All Back” ATB – “9PM (Til I Come)” » Comments 1 2 » All And it does its job, though the more you contemplate this feat of pop efficiency, the more it skirts the line between the childlike and the charmless. The appeal to kids is a side-effect of this more ruthless approach. They’re trashy, trans-continental club pop, but with the sometimes wild invention of the early 90s switched for a need to keep things as simple and catchy as possible. No matter who was buying them here, the Vengaboys are firmly in the same line as 2 Unlimited, Doop or “Mr Vain”. What this Vengasmut makes me realise is that my perception of two Europops was an Anglocentric fiction. Instead it’s lap dances, topless burlesque, champagne foam spurting over bare thighs. This is bubblegum music, no doubt, but hardly a kids’ cartoon.
In the video, he wears a sparkly red cowboy hat.Īh, though, the video, one look at which causes me to hastily revise any generalisation I might have had about the Vengaboys and their audience. The most enjoyable touches on the single are its purely dumbest – the chorus, of course, but also the keyboard-preset “Woo! Woo Woo!” bits in the breakdown, and the robodude who pops up to announce “Ven-ga-boys-are-back-in-town” and “Let’s-have-some-fun”. Vengaworld, on first impression, is a world in which the Vengaboys get on the Vengabus and go party: it has a perfect cartoon simplicity that matches the cheerful inanity of “Boom Boom Boom Boom”. There has been lots of impeccably high-fashion European music, of course, but when you’re pitching Esperanto pop at a market that’s a patchwork of cultures and languages, the nuances of style are sometimes the first casualty. The two waves of Europop have something in common: neither are remotely bothered about looking cool. And for a few months in the Summer of 1999 the Vengaboys were its hottest ticket. It was a music built on gleeful gimmickry and seemed to sell mostly to the continent’s kids.
The second, led by Aqua, was also designed for dancing, but as much in school discos as tourist nightspots. The first was a club music – a polyglot of house, hip-hop and rave heralded by Snap! and epitomised by 2 Unlimited and Culture Beat. MAYBERRY, FREDERIK BUND, ANDREAS SCHNEIDERLyrics powered by 90s in the British charts are topped and tailed by two mighty surges of Europop. Vengaboys are back in town Vengaboys are back in town Woah oh woah oh Whoa oh woah oh Whoa oh whoa oh Whoa oh whoa oh Vengaboys are back in town Whoa oh whoa oh Whoa oh whoa oh Whoa oh whoa oh Whoa oh whoa oh If you're alone and you need a friend Someone to make you forget your problems Just come along baby Take my hand I'll be your lover tonight Whoa oh whoa oh This is what I wanna do Whoa oh whoa oh Let's have some fun Whoa oh whoa oh One on one just me and you Whoa oh whoa oh Boom boom boom boom I want you in my room Let's spend the night together From now until forever Boom boom boom boom I wanna double boom Let's spend the night together Together in my room Whoa oh whoa oh Everybody get on down Whoa oh whoa oh Vengaboys are back in town Whoa oh whoa oh This is what I wanna do Whoa oh whoa oh Let's have some fun Whoa oh whoa oh One on one just me and you Whoa oh whoa oh Boom boom boom boom I want you in my room Let's spend the night together From now until forever Boom boom boom boom I wanna double boom Let's spend the night together Together in my room Woooo! Woooo woooo! Woooo! Woooo woooo! Woooo! Woooo woooo! Woooo! Woooo woooo! Woooo! Woooo woooo! Woooo! Vengaboys are back in town
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