Bjorn who was in fact the most positif element (with little less Agnetha) against the media , though he admitted wrongly the weakness of his lyrics , had been the real cohesive element !
the lyrics , as bad as they could be , were not the worse lyrics in pop music , and the music is so strong that it could cover it all !
bjorn , may have been lyricist but without his contributon , benny could never achieve those perfect 3mn-6mn masterpieces .he always knew when to stop him and had good flair for the hooks just look at benny's out put since he collaborated less with bjorn !
things like sugary or cheesy melodies is really unjustified , because if you take a pop hit like 'video killed the radio star' , there's no more cheesy than that but the attitude of the musicians , the producer and the fact that girls were just backing objects made all that , in a anglo-american world of the seventies-eighties music , macho like no other ) a perfect masterpiece for the critics of the era , though that hit could never be as good as the worst Abba song !!!!
stikkan made his first mistakes thinking that swedish media would be as fair as the american media , but they revealed themselves worse than the British !
saying sweden is a Little pool (ABBADABADOO!) compared to the world is mean for every swedish folk !
he said it in a rage against the constant attack of the swedish media which were very hypocritical , accepting that elton john or beatles win fortunes along with having a rock attitude , while criticizing Abba for being natural is really mean and cheap !!
sting anderson may not having been a saint but he was spontaneous and straight !
he had a very hard life before being rich and famous thanks to music , and that's perhaps why he was like that ! he felt like an unfairness against Abba (which was true ) and couldn't bear it !
