@bigdave69 Naah. ABBA in its later years recorded lots of songs with serious lyrics. By serious, I mean that Ulvaeus mastered English enough to play with it.
@bigdave69 Naah. ABBA in its later years recorded lots of songs with serious lyrics. By serious, I mean that Ulvaeus mastered English enough to play with it.
This particular song uses personification masterfully to describe the essence of any big city. And, like many, if not most, ABBA songs, there is a dark undercurrent to the lyrics. The city seduces, "my arms are open wide." But once inside those arms, "sometimes you lose a lot."
This particular song uses personification masterfully to describe the essence of any big city. And, like many, if not most, ABBA songs, there is a dark undercurrent to the lyrics. The city seduces, "my arms are open wide." But once inside those arms, "sometimes you lose a lot."
The imagery of "turmoil," "clamor," "grabbing pieces of the fatted calf," "revelation," and people who feed the city "with their lives"...
The imagery of "turmoil," "clamor," "grabbing pieces of the fatted calf," "revelation," and people who feed the city "with their lives" all add up to make a pretty dark pronouncement about the power of the metropolis.
Not "crap." Maybe not your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it crap. I find it quite literate and fascinating.
This was a pretty crappy song and it marked the decline of ABBA as a songwriting force because the songs just got really crap.
@bigdave69 Naah. ABBA in its later years recorded lots of songs with serious lyrics. By serious, I mean that Ulvaeus mastered English enough to play with it.
@bigdave69 Naah. ABBA in its later years recorded lots of songs with serious lyrics. By serious, I mean that Ulvaeus mastered English enough to play with it.
This particular song uses personification masterfully to describe the essence of any big city. And, like many, if not most, ABBA songs, there is a dark undercurrent to the lyrics. The city seduces, "my arms are open wide." But once inside those arms, "sometimes you lose a lot."
This particular song uses personification masterfully to describe the essence of any big city. And, like many, if not most, ABBA songs, there is a dark undercurrent to the lyrics. The city seduces, "my arms are open wide." But once inside those arms, "sometimes you lose a lot."
The imagery of "turmoil," "clamor," "grabbing pieces of the fatted calf," "revelation," and people who feed the city "with their lives"...
The imagery of "turmoil," "clamor," "grabbing pieces of the fatted calf," "revelation," and people who feed the city "with their lives" all add up to make a pretty dark pronouncement about the power of the metropolis.
Not "crap." Maybe not your cup of tea, but that doesn't make it crap. I find it quite literate and fascinating.