ABBA: Awesome or Awful?

ABBA is back -- and bigger and cheesier than ever. One British columnist is in a froth of ABBA-hatred, and the hostility is darn near hilarious. Here's a bit:

I hate Abba. I hated them first time around, when their cheesy disco pop with its clod-hopping rhythms and banal, repetitive, linguistically challenged choruses made them singalong family favourites. And I hate them even more now, when the flattening effect of nostalgia has lent a spurious retro-credibility to their formulaic Euro drivel.

Poor fellow. Right now, ABBA is enjoying a revival, what with "Mamma Mia!" (both the musical and now the movie). Goodness, people like me who are too young to remember ABBA from the 1970s are now being confronted with their musical madness. There's no escape!

Still, "Dancing Queen" is kind of a catchy tune!