Of course, we wore silly outfits, the pictures were corny, and some people still focus on that. But ABBA wasn't a big intellectual thing. We were a pop group.
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DEREK CIANFRANCE I was seen as a little weirdo. But I was certain I wasn't a weirdo. I knew who the weirdos were,... KATHERINE RYAN We actually have been toying around with a theatrical element. We even had outfits that we wore on s... COLIN MELOY Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for t... BJORN ULVAEUS We were doing things with a hundred per cent feeling. It wasn't programmed. It wasn't asked ... BEN E. KING I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that... JOE FLANIGAN That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influen... SHELBY LYNNE I walked around feeling, in a sense, that people of color, we began at the bottom of a slave ship. W... NATE PARKER Defensively, we made a couple of silly mistakes. Those were two easy runs we gave them early, but th... 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