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The fact that it took almost a year to record Voulez-Vous is an indication of the creative and personal constraints that the four members of ABBA found themselves in at the end of the 1970s. Their sixth album coincided with the marital separation of Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus and a period of radical change in popular music, with disco, which had been in decline, suddenly experiencing a renaissance thanks to the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever.
For example, about half of Voulez-Vous shows the heavy influence of the Bee Gees from their mega-hit disco era. This is evident not only in the fact that the backing track for the title track was cut at Criteria Studios in Miami, where the Bee Gees had cut Main Course, Children of the World, and most of the rest of their disco-era music, but also in the funky beat that ran through much of the material.
Still, the album contained a pair of soft, lyrical Europop-style ballads, “I Have a Dream” and “Chiquitita,” both of which proved just as popular as the more dance-oriented numbers, and which recalled Fältskog's and Ulvaeus' roots, in particular, in the popular folk music of the mid- and late 1960s. These two songs, plus “Angeleyes,” “Does Your Mother Know,” and the title track, all became Top 5 singles in England, although only “Chiquitita” and “Does Your Mother Know” became Top 40 hits in America.
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