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mtv An Oral History Of The A Teens, The ABBA Cover Band That Defined Y2K Pop They went global with Teen Spirit, toured with Britney Spears, and then. silence. 20 years later, the Swedish foursome explain what really happened
In 1998, Britney Spears traveled to Stockholm to record songs for her debut album,
.Baby One More Time, with producers like Max Martin and Rami Yacoub. She was one of many stars at the time who ventured to the Swedish city to capitalize on the words and sounds of its burgeoning pop scene. Months later, at a dance school only a few miles away, a team of record label executives convened to audition a group of 100 teenagers for a project they called the âABBA Teens,â an homage to Swedenâs most popular musical export.