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Post by shoshin on Jul 12, 2019 23:34:35 GMT
As just mentioned on another thread, it's possible that the young, sweet and only seventeen Dancing Queen, the teaser that turns them on at the disco, is the same barely legal hot and teasing temptress in DYMK. The two songs might even be describing the same specific night from two different angles.
TWTIA is a prequel to the earlier I'm Still Alive : she was a loser then, but she's a winner now.
Any more? Come on, imagination wasn't Bjorn's strong point. He probably wrote all of his lyrics about the same two or three women and the same half a dozen Stockholm locations. Eagle excepted of course. |
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Post by josef on Jul 13, 2019 9:29:47 GMT
Come to think of it, I've always seen a link between Hey Hey Helen, Elaine and Should I Laugh Or Cry.
If only the people behind Mamma Mia! had fashioned a really good story from ABBA's lyrics. There is an excellent one in there, ripe for the picking.
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Post by HOMETIME on Jul 13, 2019 10:09:49 GMT
As just mentioned on another thread, it's possible that the young, sweet and only seventeen Dancing Queen, the teaser that turns them on at the disco, is the same barely legal hot and teasing temptress in DYMK. The two songs might even be describing the same specific night from two different angles. This connection has blown my tiny mind! WHY DIDN'T THEY DO THIS FOR MAMMA BLOODY MIA!?! I think that Nina, the alleged pretty ballerina, might have continued her daily train commute to work, eventually developing a fondness for Chinese food, Dallas, and early nights with Marilyn French books. (Spinning off on a tangent, the guy Agnetha flirts with on the train in the video could even be Sheena Easton's 9 To 5 (Morning Train) love interest - the cad). I think that Elaine could be a spy, given the edgy, indistinct sense of paranoia that pervades the song. And lo, there she is, schmoozing government ministers in On And On And On, delivering coded warnings about a Trump-like despot in The Piper before falling foul of some chauvinistic double agent in Under Attack, who wants to get his hands on her briefs (only she's not sure which ones). Does she meet a grim end in The Visitors? The "other woman" in Gonna Sing You My Lovesong feels guilty, seeing Helen pack up and leave her philandering husband. Angeleyes is a point soon after they too have broken up. Developing a bad reputation, he soon becomes the dethroned King. Not smart enough to learn from his mistakes, however, he continues to push his luck, only to be shredded and mocked by Frida in That's Tough. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2019 19:49:41 GMT
1973:
Ring, ring, why don't you give me a call?
Ring, ring, the happiest sound of them all
In 1981, a ringing bell didn't sound that great anymore:
I hear the doorbell ring and suddenly the panic takes me
The sound so ominously tearing through the silence
I cannot move, I'm standing
Numb and frozen
Shall we just say they did develop quite some, lyrical-wise...?
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