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31. december 2013

Forleden aften havde DR2 temaaften om ABBA. Og blandt højdepunkterne var de indslag, hvor ABBAs studiemusikere fortalte om indspilningen af sangene, herunder om popsangenes kompositoriske og arrangementmæssige kompleksitet. Jeg har fx aldrig tænkt over, at ABBA var dybt inspireret af fx soul- og discomusikken. Men sådan er det. Og de forskellige indblik højnede blot min respekt for den svenske popkvartet. Alene sammenligningen af de vokale samarbejde mellem Agneta og Anni-Frid med en syntheziser var tankevækkende.

Og derfor er det nærliggende at lade ABBA endnu engang ønske os et godt nytår med deres alt andet end entydigt lykkelige sang Happy New Year. Selv om vi slår os på verden nu og da, så er der ingen grund til ikke at ønske hinanden et godt nytår. Det være hermed gjort. Godt og lykkebringende nytår til jer alle.

No more champagne
And the fireworks are through
Here we are, me and you
Feeling lost and feeling blue
It’s the end of the party
And the morning seems so grey
So unlike yesterday
Now’s the time for us to say…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and i

Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, man is a fool
And he thinks he’ll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he’s astray
Keeps on going anyway…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and i

Seems to me now
That the dreams we had before
Are all dead, nothing more
Than confetti on the floor
It’s the end of a decade
In another ten years time

Who can say what we’ll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine…

Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don’t we might as well lay down and die
You and i

 

 

 

 

2 kommentarer

  1. Gowings kommentarer:

    – Og godt nytÃ¥r til ‘den gamle redacteur’. Den sang skal nok komme til at bidrage til festlighederne rundt omkring.

  2. capac kommentarer:

    @Gowings: Ja, helt sikkert. Det er en rigtig god, slidstærk sang.

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