Peak
2
Weeks
36
Score
7,644
Chart Year
1993
A music video directed by Swedish director Matt Broadley was produced in November 1992[65] to promote the single. Danish actress and singer-songwriter Christiane Bjørg Nielsen [da] appears in the video as the title character. The video was filmed in Nielsen's apartment in Copenhagen in one day, on a budget of $2000.[66] The video, shot in sepia tone, depicts the band members performing in a cramped apartment, interlaced with shots of a woman getting ready to go out. She goes to a bar where she meets a man. They talk and then she takes him home to her. Though Jenny has no vocals in the song, she lip syncs the vocals during the chorus. Ekberg noted, "The video is also an explanation for the song, because in the song you don't know if she found a guy or not, but [the video shows] a happy ending."[12] Ekberg later said that MTV pushed the song as they "loved the video because it was so clean."[66] As of August 2022 the video reached 120 million views on YouTube.
The song is supposedly about young women in Denmark using men as "Stud Bulls" in order to get pregnant (to get welfare payments for being single mothers). Only not really. "Baby" is often used as slang for "boyfriend" (think "Baby, baby, where did our love go?"). Being a Swedish act, Ace of Base didn't quite get the hang of using English colloquialisms in their songs. Another lyrical oddity: "catching tan." But they didn't care, anyway. "I think it was to our advantage that English was not our mother language," Ulf Ekberg, keyboardist and vocalist for the band, explained in John Seabrook's book The Song Machine, "because we are able to treat English very respectless, and just look for the word that sounded good with the melody." This was the first hit for Ace Of Base. A few months later, "The Sign" stayed at #1 in the US for six weeks. Ace of Base sent their demo tape to Swedish producer Denniz Pop, who hated the song (then called "Mr. Ace") and refused to produce it. But there was a problem: The tape was stuck in his car's tape deck. Every morning, he had to listen to the track on the way to work, and every morning he heard something new in it. Ekberg explained in The Sound Machine: "Jonas and I are good at melodies, but there were too many things happening on the track. Denniz was very good at erasing things, and making the sound picture cleaner, and simplified. I think he took away maybe fifty percent of our instrumentation." The whistling melody was originally heard at the end, but Denniz moved it to the introduction, making the song instantly recognizable.
She leads a lonely life She leads a lonely life When she woke up late in the morning light And the day had just begun She opened up her eyes and thought "Oh, what a morning" It's not a day for work It's a day for catching tan Just lying on the beach and having fun She's going to get you All that she wants is another baby She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah All that she wants is another baby She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah (All that she wants) (All that she wants) So if you are in sight and the day is right She's the hunter, you're the fox The gentle voice that talks to you Won't talk forever It is a night for passion But the morning means goodbye Beware of what is flashing in her eyes She's going to get you All that she wants is another baby She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah All that she wants is another baby She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah (is another baby, yeah) Ahh Ahh All that she wants is another baby (is another baby) She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah (is another baby, yeah) All that she wants is another baby (is another baby) She's gone tomorrow, boy All that she wants is another baby, yeah (is another baby, yeah) All that she wants All that she wants
| Week | Chart Date | Position | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sep 18, 1993 | 92 | 34 |
| 2 | Sep 25, 1993 | 68 | 58 |
| 3 | Oct 2, 1993 | 42 | 84 |
| 4 | Oct 9, 1993 | 21 | 105 |
| 5 | Oct 16, 1993 | 8 | 118 |
| 6 | Oct 23, 1993 | 4 | 122 |
| 7 | Oct 30, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 8 | Nov 6, 1993 | 2 | 124 |
| 9 | Nov 13, 1993 | 2 | 124 |
| 10 | Nov 20, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 11 | Nov 27, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 12 | Dec 4, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 13 | Dec 11, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 14 | Dec 18, 1993 | 2 | 124 |
| 15 | Dec 25, 1993 | 3 | 123 |
| 16 | Jan 1, 1994 | 3 | 123 |
| 17 | Jan 8, 1994 | 3 | 123 |
| 18 | Jan 15, 1994 | 3 | 123 |
| 19 | Jan 22, 1994 | 5 | 121 |
| 20 | Jan 29, 1994 | 7 | 119 |