Glup! was a Chile

Chile

Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...

an rock

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

-pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 band active in the period 1996-2003. In 1999 the band performed at the Viña del Mar International Song Festival

Viña del Mar International Song Festival

The Viña del Mar International Song Festival is a music festival held annually during February since 1960 in Viña del Mar, Chile. It is considered the most important musical event in Latin America....

, coming soon afterwards into mainstream popularity in Chile due to their adolescent lyrics and sticky melodies. Freebola

Freebola

Freebola, also known as Chica Light, is a pop rock song by Chilean rock band Glup! featured in their debut album 1999 of 1999. The name of the song is a portmanteau of the word free and frivolous...

, released in 1999, was the groups commercial breakthrough hit. Although the main genre of band was pop rock it drew heavy inspiration from britpop

Britpop

Britpop is a subgenre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom. Britpop emerged from the British independent music scene of the early 1990s and was characterised by bands influenced by British guitar pop music of the 1960s and 1970s...

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