One music-industry representative (from a different label) uses it in his office as Muzak, and for that, it's a good choice. And "Voulez-Vous," while offering little in the melodic or lyrical lines, treats the disco scene as the one-night meat market it is.Īlas, the formula has this album well in hand, and all the harmonics and regular changes of tempo and orchestrations cannot make it more than mildly interesting.
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"Voulez-Vous" has been released here with full pomp and behind the single release of "Does Your Mother Know." That song seemed to promise an album with some intelligent characterization, since the male narrator not only shows awareness of the too-young girl's intentions toward him, he's half-inclined to take her up on her proposition. While some of the songs were remarkable only for their heavy harmonies, like "Dancing Queen," a couple displayed real emotion, a brittle resignation or bewilderment, like "The Name of the Game" and their best, "Knowing Me, Knowing You." Since their albums have only gradually taken root here, it's been easy to overlook the fact that songwriters Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus had also written songs from the viewpoint of, for example, a teenage schoolgirl with a crush on her teacher.
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airwaves via a series of single hits, ABBA has been intriguingly unpredictable. Its greatest advocates have been ABBA, the Swedish corporate quartet that claims to have sold more millions of albums than anyone else in the world, and passed Volvo as Sweden's biggest-earning conglomerate.Įxposed to the U.S. buying habits, but its influence is spreading (the Bee Gees' last album, "Spirits Having Flown," had more than a touch of Europop in the production). So far, Europop has made only a slight impact on U.S. Disco has had a longer history and has developed a special dialect of its own called Europop - a lush, over-produced, multiharmonic style that suggests a symphonic grandeur behind the formula lyrics. On this side, heavy metal and its glitter-rock/teeny-bopper descendants have kept their hold over the younger listeners, California-rock and country-rock have made inroads into the great middle road, and disco has replaced R&B as the dominant BOR (black-oriented rock) idiom.Īcross the watery divide, rock is in one way or another more simplistic, either bared in its New Wave minimalism or sweet-popped into Cheap Trick predictability. Over the past several years, American and European popular musical tastes, as traced in sales charts, at least, have meandered off in somewhat different directions.
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