I posted about ABBA on here as a trap because of a conversation that went on elsewhere on the web. It has nothing to do with Danswift so he needn't go having nightmares about it. It's hard though, to not feel at least some sympathy for someone who manages to discredit a band in every area they're world-renowned for being shit-hot at.
My only wish now is that Danswift would take some time out of his busy beat-making schedule to teach Benny how to write, arrange, and compose music, and for him to to help Bjorn with his song-writing skills. And not wanting to sound demanding here, but perhaps Danswift might even find it in himself to help Anni-Frid and Frida out with harmony and singing lessons as well.
I don't know what else to say. Danswift is the shit-hot master musician we surely all aspire to be, and I guess neither Benny or Bjorn being able to read music having a lot to do with their success, doesn't even come into it. They're both self-taught, dude, neither of them can even read music and neither of them ever subscribed to the classic musician training regime that pretty much everyone out there seems to follow.
It's that and a whole bunch of talent resulting in finely-crafted musicianship, that has made them a success. Such a success in fact that you shot yourself in the foot when you said that it requires a surgeon to remove their hooks from your brain. That's just about the biggest compliment you could give them!
What a lot of ABBA haters don't realise is that ABBA are industry non-conformists. They're the polar opposite of "produced", they despise that whole aspect of the industry. The record labels hate ABBA, it stems from very early on in their career when they decided they weren't going to be pushed around by the industry. It continues to this day, and what a lot of haters don't realise is that they have been quietly trying for years now to do something about the monetary abuse musicians face at the hands of greedy streaming services sucking-up almost all of the artist's income. ABBA are big fish, and even they don't appear to be having any luck with fixing that problem.
The industry will do their best to squash ABBA's success at any and every given opportinity, so you have quite a lot of support on your side, Danswift. There are devoted ABBA fans right now assuming that the new album will storm the charts, and hopefully it will, but mark my words there are industry forces at work where algorithms will be manipulated and used to promote certain record labels' artists in an attempt to embarrass ABBA. To prevent ABBA's new album from reaching number one is a 'head-trophy' those relentless ABBA-hating labels just cannot (and will not) resist fighting for.
Mark my words that on the release of Voyage, those record labels will thrust-out a new album from whoever their respective biggest-selling artist is at the time. I suspect Adele will be one of them, there is no comparison in the quality of music, but when you look at the other-worldly viewing figures she gets it is not hard to predict what they will do, and YouTube will no doubt help them along with it. I'm not sure ABBA with their generally older fanbase would survive that, a lot of ABBA's fan base is likely passed-away five to ten years now, peeps need to remember they're 72 to 76 years old now, regardless of the fact they just embarrassed every other artist in the charts with their skill.
The covers for "Don't Shut Me Down" started appearing almost instantly after release, and it's promising to see that it's actually the younger generation that are loving it and making these videos. It just might make other artists and labels realise that success is not the same as success AND respect. Those big-selling modern artists have success, but what they don't and never will have, is the respect ABBA has among real musicians.
Here's a cover video Danswift won't like but will watch anyway (she fucked-up at the end though):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gLHa1X0fa0
