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After ABBA's reign, the landscape of pop music was shifting
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This Is Pop

After ABBA's reign,the landscape of pop music was shifting. Rock was dominating the charts...

After ABBA's reign,
the landscape of pop music was shifting. Rock was dominating the charts and it was going to take a rock band
to be the next group from Sweden to make a mark internationally. That brings us to 1989. The next Swedish moment
in the globalization of Swedish pop music was Roxette

Full Transcript

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After ABBA's reign, the landscape of pop music was shifting.
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Rock was dominating the charts
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and it was going to take a rock band to be the next group from Sweden
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to make a mark internationally.
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That brings us to 1989.
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The next Swedish moment in the globalization of Swedish pop music
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was Roxette.
Duration
19 seconds
Views
27
Timestamp in Movie
00:09:37
Uploaded
May 12, 2025
Season
1
Episode
3
Genres
documentary, music
Production
Banger Films

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Movie Summary

Uncover the real stories behind your favorite pop songs as this docuseries charts the impact of the festival scene, Auto-Tune, boy bands and more.
S01 • E08 So, I do feel that there is some kind of, uh... - This Is Pop 00:07
So, I do feel that there is some kind of, uh...
S01 • E06 If we do get 50, 55,000 people, we're going to have a lot of problems. - This Is Pop 00:04
If we do get 50, 55,000 people, we're going to have a l...
S01 • E05 ♪ All is fair in love and war Or so they say and so the saying goes ♪ - This Is Pop 00:13
♪ All is fair in love and war Or so they say and so the sayi...
S01 • E08 A vehicle or an antenna thing going. - This Is Pop 00:04
A vehicle or an antenna thing going.
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The primary focus of folk music has always been
S01 • E06 I don't think they made one arrest in the entire weekend. - This Is Pop 00:08
I don't think they made one arrest in the entire weeken...
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The stuff that was done on Tin Pan Alley in that time period
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I had songs recorded by many wonderful people,
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♪ Well, I can't do that ♪
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And, yeah, people were smoking pot, you could smell it.
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And to get people talking about it and thinking about it
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One of the first shows that we ever did, it was so rammed,
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This is Ola,
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And I was very honored when I read one of Bob Dylan's b...
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♪ Not too soft ♪
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But the policemen were all like... "Hmm... I don't...
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He said he liked the Brill Building writers, especially Neil...
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That's the culture that I grew up in
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"Sometimes I wonder Why I spend the lonely nights
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♪ The East Coast family... ♪