Beautiful Life (Ace of Base song)

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Beautiful Life was a hit song by Swedish band Ace of Base, released in Autumn of 1995. In North America it was the first single released from the band's The Bridge; in Europe it followed Lucky Love.

The song was written on January 1, 1994 by band member Jonas Berggren while he was in the Canary Islands. His earlier song The Sign had just hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Berggren incorporated gospel (music) elements into the song, and the single proved quite successful worldwide.

This song was also included on the Night at the Roxbury (1998) soundtrack and was featured in the advertising campaign for the movie. The song was also the first to be played the night that the Florida Marlins won Game 7 of the 1997 World Series.

[edit] Video

The video for the song was directed by Richard Heslop, who would go on to direct the band's later video for Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry. The video included computer generated bubbles which whisked the band from place to place.

According to music channel VH1 in the United States, the band's record label, Arista Records, insisted the bubbles be removed from the video, leading to a somewhat strange-looking U.S. video, with the band members looking at (and reacting to) bubbles that were no longer there. In Europe, both the versions (bubble video and bubble-free) were released.

In addition to the two alternate videos, remix videos were also created, and in 1998 VH1 released a pop-up video version of the video.