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Agnetha TV Special: the Linda Granqvist Review Just home from watching the Agnetha show together with Jeff de Hart and a couple of other fans. And wow! I'm positively surprised. Agnetha was so relaxed and so much as ease with herself and she and Lotta Bromé (the interviewer) joked about and had fun half of the time and were deep serious the other half. I must say LB did a really good job here. And Agnetha too. She seemed so young at heart and full of energy, one can't believe all of those "depressed warning" article one has been reading after this. Most of the show was filmed "dogmastyle" with a handicam when Agnetha was sitting on a bridge by the water talking, or (regular film) at Agnetha's place at Ekerö, in a living room I believe. And Agnetha was talking about the ABBA time, how she thinks about it all the time, how tired she was of ABBA's music after the disband (someone once on this list used the term ABBA'd out and I think that verbs fits exactly on how A must have felt. Imagine singing and hearing the same songs year in and year out well almost. Wouldn't you tire too??). And that she wanted to rest a bit from the whole music industry shebang. She also said she wanted to be Frida sometimes because F was so much more spontaneous and relaxed on stage. But about that sexy butt she'll never gonna stop hearing about "I guess that was my contribution to the success". Very tongue in cheek in a natural way. Not a rehearsed answer at all. Love U A! She was also telling about her urge to go back to singing again, and that she feared that her voice would not work. And she told about her fascination with producing an album and how she started to write lyrics in her early hears here she sang a bit of "Två små troll" (Two little trolls) her very first attempt at song writing. And also about her ways of writing melodies instead of sheet music with the tones above the text lines. (No one can really read this except for me) She also told that she hoped that she had been a good mother, she had tried her best, about her fear of flying and how crazy and unstructured everything had been during the ABBA years. But that she didn't want this undone for all in the world. Another fun thing was when she told about the first band she was with and how she got the singing job. It turned out that the band had already printed up posters advertising themselves together with a namesake singer, when that Agnetha jumped off. So A got the job very much because of her name, so that the band should not have to re print all their add posters. A also told about how exciting it was coming from Jönköping to Stockholm the first time as a teenager to record her first songs. Then there were the videos. The If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind video had colours for instance and the When you walk into the room was very sharp compared to the other times I've seen it. Then there were some other clips when A acted together with this actor whatshisname. They were kinda boring though. Probably they were supposed to be arty, but to me they just seemed like stupid commercials for insurance or banking products. And that end kiss was totally unhot IMHO. Not just because the actor is completely unsexy, but because there was no fire. But a great show anyhow. A good way to market an album that is aiming not for the teens but a bit mature audience. (Also IMHO) Thanks to ABBAMAILer Linda Granqvist, Stockholm, SWEDEN |
