All That She Wants

For the 2008 Canadian film, see All That She Wants (film). For the documentary television series, see All That She Wants (TV series).

"All That She Wants"
Scandinavian CD variant of the standard European artwork
Single by Ace of Base
from the album Happy Nation and The Sign
B-side"Fashion Party"
Released31 August 1992
RecordedAugust 1992[1]
StudioSweMix Studios Stockholm, Sweden
Genre
Length3:30
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Ace of Base singles chronology
"Wheel of Fortune"
(1992) 		"All That She Wants"
(1992) 		"Happy Nation"
(1992)
Music video
"All That She Wants" on YouTube

"All That She Wants" is a song by Swedish group Ace of Base. It was released in Scandinavia in August 1992 by Mega Records as the second single from the group's first studio album, Happy Nation (1992), and in the following year, it was released as the first single from the 1993 album The Sign in North America. Produced by Denniz Pop with group members Jonas Berggren and Ulf Ekberg, the drum beat was inspired by the Kayo song "Another Mother". Berggren and Ekberg also wrote the lyrics.

"All That She Wants" is a reggae-pop song that describes a sexually promiscuous woman, with the word "baby" being synonymous with "boyfriend".[3][5] The song was first recorded in 1991, but went through many revisions before it was officially released.

The song was a commercial success, reaching the top of the charts in many countries, including Denmark, Germany, the UK and Australia. It spent 13 weeks at the top of the Danish singles chart. The single was certified platinum in the United States, where it peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 and was one of the best-selling singles of that year. Its music video was directed by Matt Broadley and filmed in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In 2007, the song was re-recorded by the band as a three-piece with new lyrics in a first-person perspective, but was never officially released. This re-recording was leaked online in June 2016 in a collaboration version of the song that features new Ace of Base vocals alongside Britney Spears's vocals from her own 2007 demo version.[6]

Ace of Base was influenced by Kayo's "Another Mother" to create "All That She Wants".
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference mrpop was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2010). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Volume 1. Guinness Publishing. p. 51. ISBN 978-1-5615-9176-3. When Ace of Base scored a massive worldwide number 1 in 1993 with 'All That She Wants', the comparisons to fellow Swedish group, Abba, seemed obvious: Two female vocalists, one blonde, one brunette, and two male musicians, playing catchy dance pop.
  3. ^ a b Daw, Robbie (20 November 2014). "The 50 Best Pop Singles of 1994". Idolator. Retrieved 21 September 2016.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ a b Durchholz, Daniel (1 January 1998). "Ace of Base". In Graff, Gary; du Lac, Josh; McFarlin, Jim (eds.). MusicHound R&B: The Essential Album Guide. Detroit: Visible Ink Press. p. 5.
  5. ^ Seabrook, John (2015). The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-3932-4192-1.
  6. ^ Lacroix, Jeremiah (3 June 2016). "Quand Britney Spears reprenait All That She Wants avec Ace of Base". Tetu (in French). Retrieved 7 June 2016.