Single from 2001.

Live performance at Eurovision 2024 final in their native Sweden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tUdRRfZma4

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Did that win? That was insanely catchy and fun.

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    [–] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Good fun. Those shorts had me questioning my heterosexuality. :)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    Well, if it helps, the dude in the video, Andreas Lundstedt, is openly gay, and had his boyfriend join the band at one time. Alcazar were also active in the gay scene in particular — just like Bard's other projects, since Bard is gay himself.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    You don't say! Who'd have thunk it? :)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Well, I somehow managed to have missed for ages that both dudes in Army of Lovers are gay. After all, the nineties and early 2000s were pretty wild in the costume department.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    Did Electric Callboy reuse those helmets in Ratatata?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDnIEWyVIlE

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (3 children)

    One of those songs you heard dozens of times but never knew (or cared to know) who's behind it. It also sounds like a dozen other songs you heard before.

    Not that it's bad.

    I recently opened Army of Lovers' wkipedia page. A. Bard seems very prolific, a true successor to (whoever was most prolific at) ABBA.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    His biography is quite something too.

    While living in Amsterdam, he earned part of his living as a sex worker. Bard returned to Sweden to study at the Stockholm School of Economics from 1984 to 1989. In addition to his studies in economics, he took a strong interest in philosophy and social theory with the explicit aim of becoming a philosophy writer and lecturer.

    Bard began his musical career in 1982 with the single ‘Life in a Goldfish Bowl’ released under the name Baard, a synth-punk fusion project he had formed together with two female striptease dancers.

    After Army of Lovers, he's had three bands, of which Vacuum seems the closest to the old sound (despite the rather different mood) — or maybe they're just familiar from the TV of my youth.

    And, as planned, he also went into philosophy, gave public talks since 1997, and published seven books starting in 2000, all with coauthor Jan Söderqvist. He has something of a quasi-religious movement called Syntheism, focused on participatory culture.

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