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Things I learned from YouTube over breakfast: the first Swedish performance of ABBA's Dancing Queen was at a gala at the Swedish Royal Opera, the night before the King's wedding. It is magnificently bizarre, a bewigged and stockinged choir and audience behind them, Anni-Frid and Agnetha in giant costume dresses, Benny and Björn in tights, and everyone is clearly having an amazing time during it.

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Date: 2018-09-08 08:22 am (UTC)
aella_irene: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aella_irene
I am rather fond of the future Queen's baffled look at the King.

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Date: 2018-09-08 09:53 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] antisoppist
Particularly since the lyrics imply she's a tease who's going to leave him.

Is that Silvia's parents looking politely bemused behind them? Extrapolating from http://www.unofficialroyalty.com/wedding-of-king-carl-xvi-gustaf-of-sweden-and-silvia-sommerlath/

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Date: 2018-09-08 10:41 am (UTC)
moon_custafer: neon cat mask (coppelia)
From: [personal profile] moon_custafer
And then the cut to the three gentlemen in powdered wigs sitting in another box and watching everything with shrewd, appraising expressions.
Edited Date: 2018-09-08 10:41 am (UTC)

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Date: 2018-09-08 03:59 pm (UTC)
aella_irene: (Default)
From: [personal profile] aella_irene
Yep, and neither of them looks like Prince Bertil (or Princess Lillian, Best Princess)

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Date: 2018-09-08 04:45 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] antisoppist
I was just coming here to say when you don't know who it is lurking at the back it is often Princess Lilian from Swansea. Except this time it isn't.

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Date: 2018-09-08 10:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bookwormsarah
That was delightfully bonkers. Thank you for sharing!

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Date: 2018-09-08 01:06 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] marginaliana
What on earth must the royals have been thinking during all of this? And the three dudes in the powdered wigs at the end! Amazing.

They really do look like they're having fun. It's very genial. For some reason I kept thinking "they seem like really nice people." If they're secretly backstabbing each other and trashing hotel rooms and doing a ton of drugs, I don't want to know about it.

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Date: 2018-09-08 06:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] azdak
That was amazing! I had no idea that when they sang Dancing Queen they meant literal royalty.

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Date: 2018-09-09 12:04 am (UTC)
moon_custafer: neon cat mask (coppelia)
From: [personal profile] moon_custafer
Someone posted a slowed-down version of the song on Tumblr, and people were commenting on what dramatic movie scenes it might accompany. I said it sounded like tenors singing solemnly at the coronation of the literal Dancing Queen.

This isn’t that far off.

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Date: 2018-09-08 04:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] elmey.livejournal.com
Holy cow! The definitive version ♥ ♥

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Date: 2018-09-11 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It is! You'd think it would be better known.

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