Already a Top 20 single, and auguring Top 10 standing for album "My Colouring Book", the only question is why?
Anna from Abba is back, looking and sounding as cool as ever.
I managed to get this CD single on the player before I knew what it was, and wondered why the hell I was listening to some smooth 70s pop from Luxembourg or somewhere with a slight accent that I wouldn’t haven’t bothered with even in the 70's. Vacuous, expensively produced, unthreatening, bland, soothing. W&H, why are you tormenting me with this stuff? I know there's a postal strike where you live and everything … but, why take it out on me?
But I'm a pro. So I read the sleeve and check the .se website and the penny starts to drop. I switched off Radio One sometime in 1993 and stopped reading newspapers at about the same time. I hear there is a TV channel of nothing but music videos now. So forgive me if my pop culture isn’t quite up to speed. I tend to waste my waking moments listening to weird music and going to low-rent venues to hear bands I've never heard of.
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There seems to be a stirring in the populace for music that doesn’t demand the full pants-off, pilled-up, fuck-the-world commitment. Can it be nice again? they murmur. And please can we leave out the vo-coder and the hand-jabbing sub-porn gangsta-ism too? Have some innocence and real instruments maybe? It’s a simple demand. But it might buy a few truckloads of something. This lush production boasts real time playing of proper instruments (including oboe) by real musicians, live, in a studio. You already know how well Agnetha sings – so the result is dreamy pop heaven with no Cowell and a complete lack of Waterman. Just the ticket. " ... tied up with a yellow bow", indeed.
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