INYIM Media Back To The Future: Salutes ABBA New Reunion After 40 Years W/ Throwback ‘Waterloo’ Performance Via Eurovision Circa 1974!

INYIM Media Back To The Future: Salutes ABBA New Renuion After 40 Years W/ Throwback ‘Waterloo’ Performance Via Eurovision Circa 1974!

"It lastly occurred: ABBA introduced they’re reuniting for the primary time in 40 years, with a brand new album and a digital live performance on the way in which. If the pair of singles they’ve launched show something, it’s that they’ve been bottling up disco-pop lightning for years. They picked the proper time, too: We may all use a few of that glittery Swedish vitality to get us by the darkness proper now.

In honor of the group returning, let’s revisit their breakthrough on the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest, the place they took house first place for “Waterloo.” Following their introduction, the place every member — Benny Andersson, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus — pose inside the leaves of a giant plant, the video turns to the competition.

Producer Sven-Olof Walldoff seems dressed as Napoleon (a logical selection, on condition that the music’s title comes from the 1815 Battle of Waterloo). Walldoff conducts the orchestra because the band seems onstage, kicking off the observe in flamboyant outfits. Lyngstad and Fältskog commerce vocals, with the latter decked out in royal blue velour and an identical crochet beanie.

“Waterloo” marked the primary time the band charted within the U.S. The music hit Quantity Six on the Billboard Scorching 100, whereas its B facet, “Honey, Honey,” landed at Quantity 27 later that fall. Following its success, the group turned influenced by glam rock. “In the event you have a look at the singles we launched straight after ‘Waterloo,’ we have been attempting to be extra just like the Sweet, a semi-glam rock group,” Ulvaeus advised The Guardian in 2014. “Which was silly as a result of we have been at all times a pop group.”

ABBA’s upcoming album, Voyage, marks their first new album since 1981’s The Guests, and previously 4 a long time they’ve come out and in of the popular culture orbit, most lately with 2018’s Mamma Mia! Right here We Go Once more and Cher’s subsequent tribute album. Hopefully, this reunion will give them the total resurgence they deserve.

“The music of ABBA is just not that completely satisfied,” Ulvaeus stated. “It would sound completely satisfied, in some unusual method, however deep inside it’s not completely satisfied music. It has that Nordic melancholic feeling to it. What fools you is the women’ voices. You recognize, I do assume that is likely one of the secrets and techniques about ABBA. Even after we have been actually fairly unhappy, we at all times sounded jubilant.”" - Rollingstone.com