Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.
The music of ABBA is not that happy. It might sound happy, in some strange way, but deep within, it's not happy music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the girls' voices. You know, I do think that is one of the secrets about ABBA. Even when we were really quite sad, we always sounded jubilant.
Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
I quite like ABBA.
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.
I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.
I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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