Volebeats greatest hits4/7/2024 ![]() This SNL appearance neatly embodies the ABBA dichotomy. (The individual videos sadly aren’t anywhere embeddable, but the full episode is on Hulu). I’ve watched the entire first season now, and haven’t seen any other musical performer treated this way. ![]() The tracks didn’t arrive from Sweden.” The band appears to have no idea they are being thus undermined, even as the audience titters. Before the first verse even ends, these words pop up on the screen: “Right now ABBA is lip-syncing. The second performance, “Waterloo,” does them even dirtier. Even when the camera lands on ABBA, it waves and swoops to indicate they’re going down with the ship too. They have to perform “S.O.S.” on a sinking Titanic set, competing for screen time with Klein and some SNL writers pretending to drown in vintage dining-lounge attire. With ABBA, though, the show undermines the Swedish quartet from the start. Wainwright’s performance plays it straight, just him and his guitar on stage. Two musical guests joined him: Loudon Wainwright III and ABBA. On the fifth episode ever – back when it bore the shorter title Saturday Night – the host was comedian Robert Klein. ![]() I’ve been watching early episodes of Saturday Night Live recently.
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