What is the song ‘Planet of the Bass’? Parody Euro-pop music video goes viral for spot-on homage to the ’90s

A parody music video for a fake Euro-pop song is making the rounds across TikTok, Twitter and Tumblr for its spot-on homage to ’90s music videos and nonsensical lyrics.

Comedian Kyle Gordon has built an audience of over 3 million followers on TikTok and regularly posts humor sketches on his account. But his “Planet of the Bass” song, featuring the fictional DJ Crazy Times & Ms. Biljana Electronica, has found multi-platform success for its satire of bands like Aqua and La Bouche.

Filmed in the Oculus building in downtown Manhattan, Gordon and Audrey Trullinger (playing Ms. Biljana Electronica) dance in ’90s futuristic garb to upbeat techno music and sing in “almost correct English,” as one commenter puts it.

In addition to the “ridiculously well done” optics of the fake music video — including the outfits (Gordon wears snow pants and swim goggles) — the song lyrics are what have really become popular.

“All of the dream/ How does it mean?/ When the rhythm is glad/ There is nothing to be sad,” are the opening lines of the song.

“I thought this was actually a 90s eurodance until the second loop,” one commenter wrote.

But the lyrics that are really taking off are: “Life, it never die/ Women are my favorite guy.”

Mark Harris, former executive editor of Entertainment Weekly, praised the video, saying that if the song had come out in 1997, the magazine “absolutely would have given these two a full page with a photo shoot.”

When was Euro-pop popular?

The Euro-pop genre is defined as pop music that features mentions or traces of the band’s European origins but ultimately finds mainstream international success — specifically in dance clubs.

The first major Euro-pop group is considered to be Los Bravos, a Spanish group with a German lead singer, who found success with their “Black Is Black” single in 1966. Their producer, who was British, intentionally tried to mix in current dance beats with English lyrics that can be understood by anyone with a high school-level comprehension.

Throughout the next decade, groups like Sweden’s ABBA and Danish-Swedish Aqua were releasing songs that appealed to any age demographic and took themselves less seriously than other pop bands at the time. Aqua’s 1997 hit “Barbie Girl” is considered to be Euro-pop’s greatest global success, in terms of its international reach and sales.

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