Aqua (band) - Musical Style and Influence

Musical Style and Influence

Aqua were musically influenced by the eurodance genre that was popular in Europe, Oceania and South America in the 1990s. Their influences include ABBA, Ace of Base, and C+C Music Factory. The style of eurodance was dance music with a female singer and a male rapper. Aqua followed a more traditional verse-chorus structure. Usually, the verse would consist of Lene starting and finishing, while René would sing in the middle. Aqua are best known for the dance tracks such as "Barbie Girl," "Doctor Jones," "Lollipop (Candyman)" and "My Oh My." Although they also made slower tracks such as "Turn Back Time," "Good Morning Sunshine" and "We Belong to the Sea." These tracks do not belong to the general bubblegum pop genre. There is also differences between the first album Aquarium and the second album Aquarius. Aquarium had many similar tracks whereas Aquarius experimented with acoustic instruments and genres like country and Latin music. At the end of the 1990s the interest for eurodance music was dropping. Aqua's second album, Aquarius, which was released in 2000, was therefore not as well timed as the first one. Their 2011 single "How R U Doin?" has electropop and dance-pop qualities.

Aqua, along with the Vengaboys, have caused a '90s pop scene revival in Australia which has since seen these bands and many others from that decade announce successful tours, with the head of the Hull Aqua Megafans, John McGinnes, saying "It was the best show I have ever seen in my life."