Something you may not know about me is that I love Ace of Base. In fact, one of my first cds was Ace of Base. I mean, what's not to love? I am just really happy that I had good taste at age 11 when I was buying my first cd and even happier that I still love the group.

If these guys come on at a party? I am dancing.

Anyhow, this summer when the Lady Gaga song Alejandro came out, I spent the whole summer getting really pumped up only to realize that it was Lady Gaga and not Ace of Base. Lady Gaga is fine and everything but you can't help but feel let down when it's not actually Ace of Base.

Needless to say, I spend the whole month of July telling my friend R. who I was traveling through the Balkans with this: you know what would make this better? <em>Ace of Base</em>.

Why? well when you're stuck in the backseat of an overly crowded, hot and smelly minibus blaring Albanian pop-folk and the man sitting next to your sweating all over your arm from Tirana to Ohrid you need something to look forward to and/or joke about. In my case, this was Ace of Base. It's slightly absurd and slightly possible that you'd stumble across someone (who'd clearly be awesome) playing Ace of Base. Unfortunately, the whole I never heard any Ace of Base.

That is until I turned my tv on this afternoon after a long day at work. And there were men singing an Ace of Base cover!!  In Bulgarian. Wow. <em>Wow</em>. <!--more-->Now here's the thing, I regularly listen/watch this hysterical-wonderful-ridiculous Bulgarian tv channel called "The Voice"--it's part pop, hip-hop, euro-pop and a wide variety of Bulgarian pop/rap. I like it for all of these reasons. It's a channel that never fails to make me laugh.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6tqKXWfdh8]

But today, I couldn't peel my eyes off of the television.

First, who decides to cover an Ace of Base song in Bulgarian?

Second, do you see what these guys are wearing?

Third, half or more of the places they are filming are recognizably Sofia.

Finally, where are they going on the Metro? There's only one line. (More on the metro tomorrow.)

Anyhow all of these things combine to be pretty outstanding. It's like this song was made just for me. I love Ace of Base, The Voice and Bulgarian. How did I get so lucky?

I'm so pumped up. I am probably going to watch the youtube video a few more times. (Please don't judge me.)