Word: abba
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...strutting again. Almost all of Confessions feels like I Love New York--exuberant, campy, shameless and cool. The songs flow into one another with no regard for things like track numbers (the album is premixed, as opposed to remixed), and nuggets of dance history--from the sample of Abba's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! that anchors the massively catchy first single, Hung Up, to the buried bars of Like a Prayer that pop up for a few seconds--float by like glittery party favors. But what you notice most is the pure ecstasy of sound. It's not a Phil Spector...
...video’s deepest flaw is its utter lack of plausibility; in the real world, everyone else depicted in the video would probably rather be caught dead than on camera dancing to her ABBA-sampling pop single, no matter its catchiness...
...project halted, and a special government panel is pondering what to do. Meanwhile, several influential Israelis have come to B.Y.U.'s defense. Mayor Kollek stated last week that all faiths "should be free to practice their own religion among their own people here in Jerusalem." Former Foreign Minister Abba Eban declared that the "free exercise of conscience and dissent in a democratic society" is at stake...
...November, Hanis persuaded Clinton-era National Security Council official Gayle Smith to back GIF’s mission. Smith said last night that she had traveled to Addis Abba, Ethiopia, and found that AU leaders were enthusiastic about Hanis’ initiative...
...missionary about a Broadway show - to be exact, about the music I love in a certain Broadway show. In the 80s the show was Chess, with book and lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, late of the Swedish pop group ABBA. For me, Chess was by far the finest score of the decade, rich and varied and powerful, and thrillingly melodic. It put tunes in my head that still sit up and sing there. In TIME, I wrote about Chess when it was still an album, a year before it was staged in London...