Aqua in the World Music Awards (1998) thanx to Erica for this article! The World Music Awards took place in Monaco. They had to be seriously prerecorded. Gloria Estefan was cohosting, and as it aired, she was performing in New York. I taped the whole thing, and especially loved Aqua's time! Daisy Fuentes said, "Our world, planet Earth, has been described as many things. It's a small world. It's a beautiful world, a wicked world, a wonderful world, a wide wide world, a mad mad world. But you know what? What we all know this year is one indisputable fact. It's a Barbie World. Here with the song that has captivated the whole world are the group who recorded it. Scandanavia's best selling artist, Aqua with "Barbie Girl"!" You know that lawsuit's over if the US airs a performance of "Barbie Birl"! :) Aqua came out. Lene was wearing camoflauge. She grew out her hair (it's long) and added 4-5 orange streaks to the back of her hair. Rene was wearing all blue, and his shirt had a white leaf that said, "Toronto Maple Leafs." He had a thing about grabbing and shaking the TV cameras while they sang. The Aqua eye and Aqua logo kept flashing on the big screens on the stage. When Rene asked, "You wanna go for a ride?", Lene yelled, "NO WAY!" She sounded almost angry. As they sang, they kept ignoring each other on stage. When Rene sang, "Come jump in...", he came up behind Lene and was grabbing the front of her. At first she seemed to like it, but then she shook her head no. When Lene sang, "You can touch, you can play...", she broke away from Rene, and he followed her with a smirk on his face. But Lene ignored him and ran into the audience to kiss Monaco's Prince Albert on the lips. At the end Lene said, "I think I love you Ken." Lene and Rene did not kiss like they always do after performing "Barbie Girl". I have a button on my TV to turn on closed captioning, and I had it on to check some mixed up lyrics. People hear "Dress me up, make it tight" or "Pick me up, make it tight". It's "Dress me up". Then Rene sings either "Feel the glamour and pain" or "Feel the glamour in pink". It's "In pink". A surprise for everyone: Rene does not sing "Come jump in, be my friend". He sings "Come jump in bimbo friend". After "Barbie Girl", Darcy Lapiere and Ulf Ekberg (he's from Ace of Base) came on stage. Ulf said, "The Best Selling Scandanavian Artist of 1998 is not my band this year. It's another band from my neighbor country Denmark and also Norway." Then they presented the award to Aqua. When Aqua came out, you could see that SØren's spike's were shorter. Rene thanked all the fans of Aqua. (Hey, that's us!) SØren thanked Universal Music. Claus didn't say anything. Lene thanked Prince Albert. Then she said something so fast that it didn't sound English, but she actually said, "See you at the dinner, see you at the party."