When I tell most people that I'm part Swedish, they think of Swedish meatballs, and tall beautiful women. When I think of Swedish people I think of the word slusk (the only swedish word I know), tall beautiful people and ABBA!
I can't recall ever meeting anyone born before 1985 who hasn't heard of this Swedish pop Band that was formed in 1973. While they took Europe by storm for 4 years, after they won with their first song Waterloo. On April 9, 1977, their song Dancing Queen had made it to the Billboard top 100 songs. Unlike the bands pop bands today, the band was made up of 2 couples, but like all pop bands of today they did not stay together long.
I can't recall ever meeting anyone born before 1985 who hasn't heard of this Swedish pop Band that was formed in 1973. While they took Europe by storm for 4 years, after they won with their first song Waterloo. On April 9, 1977, their song Dancing Queen had made it to the Billboard top 100 songs. Unlike the bands pop bands today, the band was made up of 2 couples, but like all pop bands of today they did not stay together long.
At any wedding, where these songs are played people break out into song singing and do the whole arms-in-the-air-sway, especially to Dancing queen. Since the play Mamma Mia, I'm sure everyone knows the words to the musical..."One more look and I forget everything who-oa, Mamma Mia here I go again, my my, how can I resist ya!"
After the play came the movie, and if you actually read the lyrics of the songs, the play & the movie fit the words perfectly. Its like the theatrics and the songs were separated at birth and brought together again to form these visual pieces. As cheesy as the movie was, the songs and their lyrics are even more cemented in my head... I can still remember jumping on mine or someone's bed when I was young singing to Mamma Mia, before the movie even came out.
Although they ended the year I was born, they will always be remembered, if not as Sweden's greatest export, but at least as their own Swedish "Chiquitita"
Although they ended the year I was born, they will always be remembered, if not as Sweden's greatest export, but at least as their own Swedish "Chiquitita"