Abba Gold - 33⅓Elisabeth Vincentelli
Starting a song with the chorus is the equivalent of drawing your gun too early
in a shoot-out, of revealing your hand too hastily in a poker game: Once you’ve
given everything you have, where’s the pay off? And yet “Dancing Queen” doesn’t
flag after its flamboyant beginning: The chorus acts as both teaser and
pay off. Ironically for a band that was supposed to be a bunch of control freaks
with a solution to every technical or musical conundrum, it later surfaced that
“Dancing Queen” starts with the chorus because Abba just couldn’t figure out how
to make it work any other way. |
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