Barbie Girl was released in 1997 by Danish Norwegian Eurodance group Aqua as a single from their album Aquarium. Sung as a playful duet between Lene Nystrøm and René Dif, it became a worldwide number one hit and one of the defining novelty pop songs of the late 1990s. Decades later it found new life in memes, edits and short form video, helped by renewed interest around the 2023 Barbie film, with creators reusing the chorus as shorthand for anything pink, plastic and exaggeratedly glamorous.