"My Mamma Said" is a song by Norwegian/Danish band Aqua

Aqua (band)

Aqua is a Danish dance-pop group, best known for their 1997 breakthrough single "Barbie Girl". The group formed in 1989 and achieved huge success across the globe in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The group managed to top the UK Singles Chart with their first three singles. The group released two...

. The song was written by members Søren Rasted and Lene Nystrom, and produced by Rasted, for their second greatest hits

Greatest Hits (Aqua album)

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 album (2009). It was their second single from the album, following Back to the 80s.

Background and composition

An atypically sombre track for Aqua, My Mamma Said deals with emotions and considerations concerning the death of the mother of the first person character. The dominant instruments are the piano and the 'cello. Nystrom is the principal vocalist and her part concerns fears and reflections about her mother, while Rene Dif

René Dif

René Dif is a musician and actor, best known as the male vocalist in the Danish pop-dance group Aqua.-Biography:...

's part pertains to philosophical and scientific aspects of the death of the mother.

Music video

The video is mainly set in a closed room with the four members of Aqua seated around a table, amid a bed of dry leaves. Apart from the leaves, black and white dominate the clip.

Chart performance

The single reached number 4 on the Danish Singles Chart. It did not achieve similar success in other countries.