May 11, 200916 yr Simple - it's ABBA's most crass, naff, boring and obvious single ever. As for Mama Mia - it's a close second.... and the film? Jeeeesus.... it just goes to show how utterly simple Joe Public is that they can pay money to see a selection of ABBA's (worst) songs given a karaoke makeover by actors who really should know better (perhaps Julie Walters had received a hefty tax bill or summat... can't think of a single other reason she'd lower herself to this tripe). ABBA were fantastic songwriters who made perfect pop songs - but..... their finest material was when their personal worlds were falling to pieces - The Winner Takes It All, The Visitors, The Day Before You Came..... out of the early singles, the only true classics were S.O.S. and Knowing Me Knowing You. there were plenty of other incredible songs - but Mama Mia and Dancing Queen are ABSOLUTELY not 2 of them. These 2 songs are the ones cited by people who a) don't know any other ABBA stuff bar the 'Gold' album b ) are pissed up on a hen-night... with vibrators stuck in their ears. :lol: :lol: Couldn't put it better myself..... Rich actually hit the nail on the head when he described ABBA as 'schizophrenic'.... I really get the impression that Benny and Bjorn just churned out the sh!t stuff (Dancing Queen, Mamma Mia, etc) for the masses, and wrote all the good stuff for the people who could actully be arsed to investigate their music a bit deeper and not just on a surface level.... The "film" however is just a bloody disgrace both to ABBA themselves and to the intelligence of the audience watching it..... As a musical, it makes "Xanadu" look like "West Side Story"........ :rolleyes:
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