“All That She Wants” by Ace of Base

"All That She Wants" first surfaced in Scandinavia in August 1992 as the second single from Happy Nation, the debut from Swedish group Ace of Base, and a year later it led the charge for The Sign in North America. Denniz Pop produced it with band members Jonas Berggren and Ulf Ekberg, who also wrote the words, and the drum beat took its cue from the Kayo song "Another Mother." The band first cut it in 1991 and kept reworking it before letting it go.

It's reggae-tinged pop about a woman who plays the field, and the baby she's after is a boyfriend, not a child. It topped charts in Denmark, where it ruled for 13 weeks, Germany, the UK and Australia, and went platinum in the US on its way to number two on the Hot 100. Matt Broadley shot the video in Copenhagen.

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