Sunday, September 28, 2008

Mamma Mia!

I'm touched to blog about this movie and their music, as they involve my very first idol, the ever amazing ABBA. I grew up with a very musical father, and music was one of the fundamental background in my childhood, listening to Elvis, Beatles etc, and loads of music from the 60's and 70's like Close To You, Let It Be, Bridge Over Troubled Water, He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother, Tell Laura I Love Her, It's Now Or Never, and the list goes on. But my very first idol, was definitely ABBA. Mind you, at the of four, I've already started having teenage symptoms like going ga-ga over idols, and I would be running to the stores everytime their out with a new album.


If I remember correctly, their first album I ever bought was Arrival, with songs like Dancing Queen, Knowing Me, Knowing You and Money, Money, Money. Then I started collecting their older albums with songs like Honey, Honey, Waterloo, Hasta Manana and Ring Ring.


These three music videos are some of my most favourite songs from ABBA, Super Trouper, Take A Chance On Me and Chiquitita. But there are just so many more. While I grew up listening to ABBA, my brother indulged in Bee Gees.


When the movie Mamma Mia! came I knew I had to go watch, and what more, the great Meryl Streep is in it! The movie started with the song I Had A Dream, and revealed a totally story line of its own, and it involves a mother and daughter relationship, both in search of love in their lives, a romance for the mother, and tracking down the real father for the daughter.

The movie absolutely did not disappoint at all. Music was great, they improvised the musical arrangements, not too much that it changes the orignal ABBA feel, plus altering some of the lyrics to suit the story. The characters were hillarious, scripts were entertaining. And of course, lots of colourful costumes & grand musical scenes.

Watching Mamma Mia! brought back many great memories to me. I will definitely continue listening to ABBA's music, their tunes still get me singing and moving anytime.

Agnetha, Frida, Benny & Bjorn, this post is dedicated to you. You guys rock!!

4 comments:

Tarantularr said...

Not a fan of abba, but reading this post does make the movie sound like fun!

savante said...

EEEk! We should have a karaoke session!

Fable Frog said...

OMG! it's ABBA fever! luckily i didn't caught this fever! *pheewww*

:D but nice review though...

mrs phillippe said...

Tarantularr & Fable - Go watch la, it's a movie every PLU wud enjoy :-)

Savante - Oh dun get me starting on the mic thee hee...