According to Wikipedia, Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg of Ace of Base deeply regrets his earlier affiliation with a Swedish nationalist political party and a white power band. He said of that time, "I really regret what I done. I closed that book. I don't want to even talk about it, that time does not exist in me any more. I closed it and I threw the book away."
In the music video, symbols of Christ, Buddha, the peace symbol, and the Yin/Yang symbol predominate as symbols of what good things should be pursued. A picture of a nuclear explosion accompanies the song's first statement of "Tell them we've gone too far."
There are a few symbols that might be ignorantly assumed to be Satanist, but a more knowledgeable person would recognize them as Buddhist religious symbols. Only by assuming that everything other than Christianity is devilish can you construe these things as Satanist or devil-worshiping.
The lyric "no man's fit to rule the world alone" rejects of the idea of a born leader (such as "The Furor"). The lyrics "dream of (the) perfect man / a situation leading to sweet salvation" reference the Christian concept of a heavenly afterlife and the Buddhist concept of enlightenment; thus, they are advocacy for a self-improving effort towards perfection, not some racist concept of perfection-by-birthright.
I interpret this song to be Ulf's rejection of national socialist views of what makes a "Happy Nation" in favor of traditional, moral, and peaceful terms.
BIG NO. Yes on Ulf rejection on the nationalist party, but this is a general heavy rejection towards ANY ideology... any blind following of whatever faith or ideology is dangerous - it is NOT contrasting "good" and "bad" ideologies but turns against black and white thinking. There is no such things as a happy nation ----> it just means people who are unhappy are beeing ignored or repressed. It is not a positive depiction of faith and not at all embrancing extremly ideological concepts like "self-improvement".
BIG NO. Yes on Ulf rejection on the nationalist party, but this is a general heavy rejection towards ANY ideology... any blind following of whatever faith or ideology is dangerous - it is NOT contrasting "good" and "bad" ideologies but turns against black and white thinking. There is no such things as a happy nation ----> it just means people who are unhappy are beeing ignored or repressed. It is not a positive depiction of faith and not at all embrancing extremly ideological concepts like "self-improvement".
According to Wikipedia, Ulf "Buddha" Ekberg of Ace of Base deeply regrets his earlier affiliation with a Swedish nationalist political party and a white power band. He said of that time, "I really regret what I done. I closed that book. I don't want to even talk about it, that time does not exist in me any more. I closed it and I threw the book away."
In the music video, symbols of Christ, Buddha, the peace symbol, and the Yin/Yang symbol predominate as symbols of what good things should be pursued. A picture of a nuclear explosion accompanies the song's first statement of "Tell them we've gone too far."
There are a few symbols that might be ignorantly assumed to be Satanist, but a more knowledgeable person would recognize them as Buddhist religious symbols. Only by assuming that everything other than Christianity is devilish can you construe these things as Satanist or devil-worshiping.
The lyric "no man's fit to rule the world alone" rejects of the idea of a born leader (such as "The Furor"). The lyrics "dream of (the) perfect man / a situation leading to sweet salvation" reference the Christian concept of a heavenly afterlife and the Buddhist concept of enlightenment; thus, they are advocacy for a self-improving effort towards perfection, not some racist concept of perfection-by-birthright.
I interpret this song to be Ulf's rejection of national socialist views of what makes a "Happy Nation" in favor of traditional, moral, and peaceful terms.
BIG NO. Yes on Ulf rejection on the nationalist party, but this is a general heavy rejection towards ANY ideology... any blind following of whatever faith or ideology is dangerous - it is NOT contrasting "good" and "bad" ideologies but turns against black and white thinking. There is no such things as a happy nation ----> it just means people who are unhappy are beeing ignored or repressed. It is not a positive depiction of faith and not at all embrancing extremly ideological concepts like "self-improvement".
BIG NO. Yes on Ulf rejection on the nationalist party, but this is a general heavy rejection towards ANY ideology... any blind following of whatever faith or ideology is dangerous - it is NOT contrasting "good" and "bad" ideologies but turns against black and white thinking. There is no such things as a happy nation ----> it just means people who are unhappy are beeing ignored or repressed. It is not a positive depiction of faith and not at all embrancing extremly ideological concepts like "self-improvement".