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Now, I'm gonna have to listen to ABBA on the car cd player for the next week until I'm sick of it.
And Eric Free, you hit the nail on the head with the "white princess" thing. It occurred to me that ABBA as an Jungian archetype channels the "17-year old white princess" (dancing queen), in everyone from 8 to 80-years old, male or female (nothing to do with race particularly as much as "white" culture, so we could say also say black or white or asian, etc.). Not that there is traditionally a "17-year old white princess" in Jungian psychology...except I do believe there is now! And ABBA is the heroin for mainlining it.
"You are the Dancing Queen, young and sweet, only seventeen
Dancing Queen, feel the beat, from the tambourine oh yeah
You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life
Ooo.. see that girl, watch that scene, diggin' the Dancing Queen."
