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Hold Me for a While

2000 single by Rednex

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ10767971 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Hold Me for a While" is a pop ballad by the Swedish band Rednex, released from their second album Farm Out as the third and final single. It was the last single to feature the second female lead singer Whippy (Mia Löfgren), after she left the band in 2001, before she rejoined in 2015.

Vietnamese version is: "Bình minh sẽ mang em đi" (by Đàm Vĩnh Hưng) .

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Hold Me for a While” is 2000 single by Rednex. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Hold, While and single, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2015—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1998, 2000-12-21—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Hold, While and single is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “2000 single by Rednex” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q10767971. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hold Me for a While” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.