We Belong to the Sea

"We Belong to the Sea" is the thirteenth single released by the Scandinavian dance-pop group Aqua from Aquarius. Following the release, the group disbanded in mid-2001, making the song their last release in the next eight years. The song had limited success, performing best in Scandinavia where the group had done well since the beginning.

Composition

Released in January 2001 and taken from the album Aquarius, the song was similar to the 1998 hit "Turn Back Time", although had far more limited success due to being released only in Scandinavia and mainland Europe. In the song verses it seems like Lene Nystrøm Rasted is talking to René Dif to take her back where she used to belong, with him in some sentences answering her to invite her to come to his underwater world, while they singing the refrain together (You can see their arguing in the opening scene and the laundry scene when they look at each other).

Music video

In the music video, directed by Tobey Hooper, which was shot in mainly three different places of Barcelona (Spain): on the streets, in a laundry and in a discotheque, features a nature and pet loving activist Lene Nystrøm Rasted going in a fish store, stealing René Dif in the form of a goldfish with a human face with a goldfish glass by tricking the two salesmen Søren Rasted and Claus Norreen. When she escaped, the two salesmen notice it and haunted her. They run through the streets of Barcelona (Spain), when she's hiding at a laundry to change her clothes. With new clothes on, she tries to not getting recognized, but the two caught her again, when she escaped in a discotheque. There she put the goldfish glass on the DJ pult, where the DJ (also played by René Dif) shows the goldfish a Vinyl cover with a picture of the wide open sea, where the fish belongs to. Near the end, Lene is running to the sea and releasing the fish there with Søren and Claus following her and finally giving up. In the very last scene, the free goldfish gets a visit by a shark. As this song reminds a little bit to their previous ballad "Turn Back Time", so the video does with a similar blue-ish, less colorful, theme and little colorizations.

Track listing

1. "We Belong to the Sea" (radio edit) – 4:16
2. "We Belong to the Sea" (Love to Infinity's Classic Radio Mix) – 3:14

Charts

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