No New Year is complete without this cult song, but its meaning is not festive at all.
In 1980, the ABBA group recorded a song that went down in history as one of the most important New Year’s hits. Initially, however, the musicians planned to make this composition part of the musical. According to the plot, the heroes remember the past and think about the future before celebrating the New Year.
ABBA members traveled to Barbados to record new songs. There they met screenwriter John Cleese and offered him their idea for a musical, but he did not appreciate it. As a result, the musicians abandoned their plan.
However, they still had the song and decided to include it on the new Super Trouper album. In November 1980, for example, the song Happy New Year was released, the lyrics of which can hardly be called festive. For example, there are rules like this:
“Now it seems to me that all our past dreams have died, now they are nothing more than confetti on the floor.”
Despite its sad and dreamy gloomy message, the hit remains popular even more than 40 years after its release. Happy New Year is not a typical New Year’s song about a Christmas tree, presents and Santa Claus. This is a composition devoted to reflections on the future – about what worries many on the eve of the New Year, but these doubts remain behind the screen in the form of festive tinsel and fun.
“It seems to me that one of the biggest problems of modern Western society is uncertainty about the future and pessimism. Happy New Year is just about how important it is to look positively to the future,” ABBA soloist Bjorn Ulvaeus explained the meaning of the hit.
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Author: Anna Skvortsova
Source: Popcorn News
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