Misunderstood geniuses or overrated hacks?
how bout neither
>>55630477How can they be both misunderstood and overrated at the same time?
Somewhere in-between. Great pop songwriting chops and a flair for entertaining, but hardly visionaries of any sort.
>>55630477theyre either overrated or underrated. no one seems to realize they were super alright as far as pop bands go
>>55630496thats why there's an "or" inbetween son
>>55630477>Anonymous 05/05/15(Tue)00:31:30 No.55630nice dubs
underrated
Björn and Benny are really great songwriters imo, though I wouldn't call them misunderstood. Hell, when ever I'm abroad and mention that I'm Swedish, people imideatly start talking ABBA or Ibra, depending on their age. I think it's mostly their way with harmonies that make them so good. Also, Does Your Mother Know is best abba song, prove me wrong faggots
>>55631178I'm gonna be honest, I don't think anybody gives enough of a fuck about Abba to correct you.
>>55631208I absolutely love ABBAcheck that, I love their "greatest hits" album and the odd song here and there that isn't on that album (i do, i do, i do comes to mind")and dancing queen is their best song. a timeless pop-culture anthem like Don't Stop Believing
>>55631208Well even if they would, I do't think they could. I mean I'm not a huge fan of the as a band, and I think the way that they were marketed abroad was pretty dumb and perhaps deterimental to our global image. But Björn and Benny are objectively very good at writing music, Chess god damn it!
>>55631273>But Björn and Benny are objectively very good at writing musicA lot of ABBA's songs have a lot of odd instruments here and there. If they actually wrote the music for those instruments then that is impressive but I think they just wrote a melody on piano for most songs.
Bland pop songs that are easy to sing along with.
They're esponsible for one of the best and one of the worst musicals ever in Chess and Mama Mia, respectively
>>55631424>mamma mia>badi would kick your ass irl kid
Knowing me, knowing you... AH HAAA
>>55631500You won't kick anybody's ass.You like Mama Mia.
Neither./mu/, not every opinion has to be an extreme. You guys have a problem with moderation.
Pretty fucking underrated, generations have been raised to grimace at how gay and lame they are, fucking fantastic songwriting all round.
>>55631740Kek, this tbh. And I say that as a swede and generaly positively inclined towards musicals. Mamma Mia was just an excuse to show off their music to a new generation, which it did. But as a musical it's pretty "meh". Badmouth Chess however and I'll find you and I will wipe out the pitifull existence you call life, you're fucking dead kiddo.
>>55631178Joel, is this you?
>>55631906No Joel, only Linus.
>>55631879I hope Chess is good, because in my hell, Mama Mia is on repeat.
>>55632794https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9cNtrrCP0E