OKEJ #7/99 (BSB on cover)

ABBA Teens about their dizzying breakthrough

- It is like our worst dream!

ABBA Teens can already count their success in both gold and platinum. As superstars, the four teenagers are now demanding TV games, remote control wardrobes and a helicopter in the dressing room.

- This is life at the top, they think.

Three hectic and demanding months later, and ABBA Teens think that it is just as much fun as when their debut single Mamma Mia made it's first entry into the charts.. They ask the photographer enthusiastically about polaroid photos of themselves, want to have lots of copies of the Okej magazine and all but talk over me during the interview.

- But it is so much fun, protests Marie Serneholt, 16, who is the one who talks absolutely the most.

Success, for the teenage version of Sweden's biggest pop export, continues to happen. They are on a long summer tour, release their album on 25 August ("which we think will be called ABBA Generation") and will furthermore be launched internationally ("especially in England").

- The biggest adjustment is to be recognised, give interviews and sign autographs, thinks Marie and Dhani Lennevald, who turns 15 shortly.

- But it is calm in Stockholm, for people are nice and don't care so much. In Göteborg, 20 people ran after us, tells 15 year old Amit Paul.

- When we later went to McDonalds, we had to sign autographs the whole time. Hysterical but fun, says Marie.

The tour has gone fantastically well. The first audience gave ABBA Teens a slight shock.

- It was like our worst dream, as one saw on TV. The riot barriers and the bodyguards. Everything was suddenly turned around. I was on the stage instead of in the audience like I have been for New Kids On The Block among others, says Marie.

- I stood and screamed at the Spice Girls concert in Globen last spring, remembers Sara Lumholdt, 14.

Now people are screaming after ABBA Teens instead.

- Although, mostly for Dhani and Amit because they are sooo cuuuute, say the girls without a trace of jealousy.

- To have your own fans feels completely, COMPLETELY strange, states Amit who has never had his own idol, just like Dhani.

Now they have to get used to it.

- We think that we will be ABBA Teens for two years, guesses Amit.

WISH LIST OF WHAT TO BE FOUND IN ABBA TEEN'S DRESSING ROOM

- We didn't even know that you can do this, says Marie after hearing that all the big stars have a list of what they want to have in the dressing room before a concert.

Suddenly, the demands literally pour out of their mouths:

Raider (Dhani: "Is it OK to have Raider in the contract?")

Lantchips, blue variation but in a red bag (Marie wants to make a fuss like a superstar)

Pringles, green (Sara)

TV games (Dhani)

Remote control for the wardrobe (Dhani)

Food (Sara thinks that this is really important without specifying why)

Stress ball in the form of a heart (Marie)

Okej magazines (Sara)

Helicopter (Dhani)

Footnote: All concert organisers - forgive us if we at Okej have given ABBA Teens some unrealistic ideas.