{"id":7023,"date":"2021-02-26T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/an-oral-history-of-the-ateens-the-abba-cover-band-that-defined-y2k-pop\/"},"modified":"2021-02-26T06:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:01:34","slug":"an-oral-history-of-the-ateens-the-abba-cover-band-that-defined-y2k-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/entertainment\/an-oral-history-of-the-ateens-the-abba-cover-band-that-defined-y2k-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"An Oral History Of The A*Teens, The ABBA Cover Band That Defined Y2K Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brennan Carley In 1998, Britney Spears traveled to Stockholm to record songs for her debut album, …Baby One More Time, with producers like Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. She was one of many stars at the time who ventured to the Swedish city to capitalize on the words and sounds of its burgeoning pop scene. Months later, at a dance school only a few miles away, a team of record label executives convened to audition a group of 100 teenagers for a project they\u00a0called the \u201cABBA Teens,\u201d an homage to Sweden\u2019s most popular musical export. That year, ABBA were celebrating their 25th anniversary as a group, though they hadn\u2019t released new music in nearly two decades. Beloved by an older generation of Swedes, ABBA were known around the world for their outrageous (and tax-evading) costumes, as well as their massive hits like \u201cDancing Queen\u201d and \u201cWaterloo.\u201d Their songs hadn\u2019t yet been repurposed into a long-running Broadway musical, which later inspired a blockbuster movie franchise starring Meryl Streep. ABBA weren\u2019t, for lack of a better word, cool. But the ABBA Teens were meant to change that by introducing the foursome\u2019s hits to a new wave of music consumers: pop-savvy pre-teens discovering their taste as they came of spending age. One name change later, the four singers chosen became the A*Teens. Their first album, The ABBA Generation, topped the charts in Sweden and sold over 2 million copies worldwide. But it was their all-originals follow-up, 2001\u2019s Teen Spirit,\u00a0that broke the group… Click below to read the full story from MTV News
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