Why is liking ABBA ok now? For years talking about them in any context would be met with ridicule, but now they get brought up all the time on Yea Forums, their music has high ratings on RYM, and people in general seem to look back upon them more favorably. What changed?
Why is liking ABBA ok now? For years talking about them in any context would be met with ridicule...
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Jaxson Phillips
I actually have never heard a single song by them in my life.
David Long
if you don't like abba, you have shit music taste
they hit pop perfection plenty of times
my favorite song is knowing me, knowing you
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Christopher Watson
Seriously? Even Dancing Queen?
What country do you live in?
Yeah see, posting this 10 years ago would have just had insults flung at you, let alone saying something like that irl.
Jaxson Foster
It's a jewish plot.
Nathan Parker
im bi so idc if anyone calls me gay
Jacob Allen
do you have any idea how huge of a band they are? dancing queen alone went to #1 in 13 countries when it was released, that mama mia movie grossed 650 million dollars, and hey pretty much stunned the world when they won eurovision with waterloo in the 70s.
they’re a very talented group of singers, songwriters and producers. i don’t trust anyone who doesn’t like at least 1 abba song, they’re just an incredibly likeable group. nothing really sounds like them; i’ve heard some detractors mention how their music is basically catchy schlager music, but i’ve yet to hear a single schlager tune that sounds even remotely similar to abba, so they’re almost certainly full of dog shit.
Christian Fisher
Yeah dickhead, I'm aware that they're very popular. But back in the 00s and even the early 10s they were always the butt of the joke. You couldn't discuss them with other young people without being made fun of. Mama Mia made money off people over 30, mostly older women. They had hits in the 70s, but after the disco backlash they never seemed to recover their image beyond people who were alive when they had those hits. I'm asking why they have seemingly had a comeback with young music snob hipsters.
Daniel Richardson
Everybody heard Money Money Money and Gimme Gimme Gimme even if you didn't know the song title
Josiah Moore
I don't know man, I'm pretty old and ABBA has always been consistently popular throughout my whole life.
10 years ago shit like Screamo and Pop punk and emo were borderline mainstream. Maybe you were in, or hung with people from those scenes. They'd be the types to shit on ABBA
Wyatt Reyes
Even after ABBA's popularity revival I don't like them they sounds too cheesy even compared to other pop rock contemporaries like Queen or ELO
Jack James
Yes I know that ABBA is popular. But among music snobs/music nerds they have been consistently uncool. I was not in those scenes, I was in the p4k indie scene.
Oliver Gray
Ah well yeah, most music snobs shit on popular music by default.
Michael Butler
My favorite is Chiquitita
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And, OP, no idea what you're on about. In my neck of the woods everyone loves ABBA.
David Harris
I know that, but in much the same way that it was still okay to like Michael Jackson in that scene it is now okay to like ABBA.
For the millionth time I'm not saying they aren't popular. I'm saying that among young people who would call themselves "into music" they are more popular than they were with young people who would call themselves "into music" 10 years ago.
Brayden Gutierrez
Back in the day tastemakers were writers in newspapers now it's more about the internet. Positions in the press are confered mostly through nepotism/connections though and so most music journalist's never had a clue about actual music, have never performed it and are restricted to inane criticisms directed at lyrics(though they are not really respected as writers either) and image.
Nathan Carter
>But back in the 00s and even the early 10s they were always the butt of the joke. You couldn't discuss them with other young people without being made fun of.
do you have any evidence to back this up? nobody who takes the historical progression of pop songwriting and production seriously thinks benny and bjorn aren’t incredibly talented songwriters and producers. this isn’t hard to figure out, man. it’s the fucking age of information.
Aiden Baker
that's your perception changing. nothing is real
Jace Lee
>do you have any evidence to back this up?
I was there dude. I have always loved ABBA and I was made fun of for it in real life, on Yea Forums, and on other forums.
>nobody who takes the historical progression of pop songwriting and production seriously thinks benny and bjorn aren’t incredibly talented songwriters and producers
But they've certainly become more cool among dickhead hipsters recently than they used to be.
Jaxon Green
Oh! Oh! I got it I got it. 10 years ago, people's parents were probably still into ABBA alot. Nothing more uncool than the music your parents like. Think like now, guys in their 30s listen to shit like Nickel Back, no way their kids are gonna think that's cool when they start discovering music and developing taste.
Brandon Johnson
poptism
Dylan Baker
i don’t know anyone who stopped listening to musical visionaries like michael jackson or phil spector just because of their criminal trials. you got some weird, ahistorical scenarios going on in your head, man, you probably can’t even remember 9/11 lmfao
Oliver Thompson
>i don’t know anyone who stopped listening to musical visionaries like michael jackson or phil spector just because of their criminal trials.
What the fuck does that have to do with my post? I didn't say that happened.
>you probably can’t even remember 9/11 lmfao
I was asleep when it happened.
Oliver Brown
gay people ruin music
Nathaniel Green
No one in ABBA was gay.
Jayden Lewis
i remember them in the 70's I hated that cheesy shit then.
Gavin James
I’m talking about the gays’ obsession with ABBA, retard
Jayden Rivera
Why does gay people liking music ruin music.
Jonathan Brown
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John Lydon was a vocal Bee Gees and Abba fan in the 70's
Carson Wilson
and yet they kicked out glen matlock for liking the beatles
Ian Myers
Not true.
Anthony Russell
hm
Angel Watson
It’s not them liking it, it’s them glorifying something that’s mediocre at best
Nicholas Russell
Mediocre according to you.
Cameron James
Mikael Åkerfeldt banged the blonde chick.
Caleb Richardson
Brian Eno likes them so it's ok with me.
Adam Butler
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Kevin Ward
Everyone used to hate the Beatles too. Some music just needs to age
Elijah Murphy
>Everyone used to hate the Beatles too.
When?
Jack Reed
Yeah but why are they coming back now? Lots of older pop music hasn't come back.
Matthew Bailey
The nazi’s greatest crime was creating ABBA
Owen Richardson
how did those ugly mfers pull such fine bitches
Levi Nguyen
They've been "cool" in the sense you're talking about since the early 90s at the very latest
Adam Thomas
grunge guys were big abba fans?
Andrew Campbell
I've actually been looking for more european music that sounds like them and pooling through old schlager stuff or whatever the fuck else but still not coming up with much
Julian James
I'm thinking more of bongland, that's where the whole poptimism thing kicked off with stuff like New Pop and post punk bands unironically being into Tavares. Also gay culture probably had something to do with the resurgence of interest as well
Tyler Perry
They've always been good, people have just matured and stopped hating it based on the fact that it was cheesy and that their parents liked it
Eli Sanchez
>critics didn't like ABBA to begin with and only came around with hindsight
You're fucking shitting me
Brayden Parker
I'm not talking about critics.
Kayden Bailey
>Mediocre at best
NOBODY DOES IT BETTER
Christian Smith