when Frida Lyngstad first heard the backing track for "Dancing Queen", she began to cry. "And that was before me and Agnetha had even sung on it! I knew it was absolutely the best song ABBA had ever done", she said. Agnetha Faltskog added: "It’s often difficult to know what will be a hit. The exception was “Dancing Queen.” We all knew it was going to be massive"
Allee Willis said of "September": "The, kind of, go-to phrase that Maurice used in every song he wrote was ‘ba-dee-ya,’ so right from the beginning he was singing, ‘Ba-dee-ya, say, do you remember / Ba-dee-ya, dancing in September.’ And I said, ‘We are going to change 'ba-dee-ya’ to real words, right?‘ And finally, when it was so obvious that he was not going to do it, I just said, 'What the fuck does 'ba-dee-ya’ mean?‘ And he essentially said, 'Who the fuck cares?’ I learned my greatest lesson ever in songwriting from him, which was never let the lyric get in the way of the groove"
was watching a streamer who watched a video with like five seconds of "we will rock you" playing in it, and one of his subscribers said "one hit wonder."
and I was
I was
I was like... q... queen?
one... hit... wonder???
LIKE. not to be a fucking boomer.
because despite the joke in my bio... I admit, I'm fucking 26...
jegulus soulmate where your soulmates favorite song just keeps on playing on your mind and just regulus having different song weekly because james changes favorite song all the time
So I’m an ABBA fan Steve believer. I know they weren’t popular but I think Robin liked them because they’re not from the US and I’m a firm believer that she will give anything with women in it a chance (like she tried Heart and didn’t love it but she still tried because Women). When she and Steve became friends (read: became two pieces of the RobinSteve superbeing) she started introducing him to movies and music and he found that he liked some of it - especially Blondie and ABBA. When they were on closing shifts at Family Video they would put ABBA on and dance while cleaning.
All this to say that Steve absolutely shows up to pick Max up on her 17th birthday with Dancing Queen absolutely BLARING from the car and she wants to strangle him.
Brian May initially didn't like "Don't Stop Me Now" as he felt it was celebrating Freddie Mercury's hedonistic and risky lifestyle. He added that he struggled with the lyrics at the time, because it was about a difficult period in Freddie's life when the singer was "taking lots of drugs and having sex with lots of men". However, after hearing the song being played at weddings, parties and funerals, he has come to appreciate it as representing "great joy"
when Frida Lyngstad first heard the backing track for "Dancing Queen", she began to cry. "And that was before me and Agnetha had even sung on it! I knew it was absolutely the best song ABBA had ever done", she said. Agnetha Faltskog added: "It’s often difficult to know what will be a hit. The exception was “Dancing Queen.” We all knew it was going to be massive"