"I was sort of hanging onto the boat and ABBA was playing and I finally understood ABBA." ...

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It might be hard to believe in 2024, but there was a period of time where ABBA, the Swedish pop group of epic proportions, were considered… kind of cheesy, schmaltzy, just all around uncool.

circa 1975: Swedish pop group ABBA (L-R: Benny Andersson, Frida Lyngstad, Agnetha Faltskog, Bjorn Ulvaeus), wearing similar white Asian-influenced costumes, perform for the television program ...