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Welcome to The Bridge.

Oh, oh, oh, it's a beautiful life.

Oh, oh, oh, it, a beautiful life.

That's Beautiful Life, a 1995 hit single by Swedish Swedish pop group, Ace of Bass, taken from their second album, called, appropriately

enough, The Bridge.

We're playing this song to close the book on our last hit parade episode, which was about

late 90s teen pop, and the Swedish craftsmen who were behind

the Brittany Spears Backstreet Boys, En Sink, and Robin hits, you recall from the MTV TRL days.

Ace of bass were a precursor to that whole teen pop wave.

Beautiful Life was the first American top 40 hit

for producer, songwriter, and pop mastermind, Max Martin.

He would go on to score dozens more.

This relentlessly chipper song would serve as a bridge between the early 90s era of

Grunge and Gangster Rap and Gangster Rap and the early 90s era of Grunge and Gangster Rap,

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