We caught up with the A*Teens to get an oral history of one of the most beloved and successful groups of pop’s pre-fab era
We had really big plans from the start, so we had to discuss with them,"Are you prepared to be famous?" It was a stupid question. Of course they were not prepared.Radio DJs remembered ABBA. But the young kids, they didn't have a clue. They heard [A*Teens’] “Mamma Mia,” and they saw this young, nice band and said,"That's a good thing." But the guys at the radio said,"This is an ABBA song. I don't want to play it.
A month later, there was an article in the Swedish papers saying,"[ABBA’s] Benny Andersson: This is not OK." And people came to me and said,"Are you stupid? How could you start ABBA withoutABBA?" In the end, this was the perfect thing to happen because we took so much PR from ABBA that we were No. 1 on the single charts in Sweden. They all started talking about us. And we had to change the name.A manager came up with the idea of A*Teens and then some dots.
As far as the writing on that record, I had some briefs that I sent out. There was a camp down in southern Sweden where they came up with “Upside Down” when they played around with the Motown sound. Later on, we had “Halfway Around the World” come in, and then “Sugar Rush,” then “Firefly” — that was Marie and my favorite song. I think we cut about 20 songs.That was when I started to work a lot with RedOne [who went on to produce Lady Gaga’s “Just Dance,” “Bad Romance,” and more].
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