The ABBAdook (Racer Trash)

It’s Friday—which means the weekend is fast approaching, so let’s celebrate with some great ‘70s music and trippy footage all centered around a woman’s rapidly deteriorating sense of self due to grief and a horrible child. TGIF!!!

Racer Trash is a collective of brilliantly talented artists that deconstruct pop culture using weird ass filters, footage loops, memes, branching connections, and more editing insanity based on a Vaporwave aesthetic but ultimately far more anarchic and mutative than that sub-culture tends to be. In other words—it’s perfection.

This group of mental media mixmasters put out a tremendous segment that found a way to take ABBA, Swedish power-pop super group of all that is fun and light and Meryl Streep, and marry them with their natural enemy, Jennifer Kent’s tremendous 2014 horror film about depression THE BABADOOK, into a tremendous bit of audio-visual madness that is frankly too much fun. The segment was made by Josh Sasson, and does such a great job juxtaposing these two great tastes that it can’t help but taste great together.

In addition to Sasson’s dope video segment, another Racer Trasher—Jess Lane—put together “Baba-loo” song which rises to “Weird Al” Yankovic levels of beauty with its “Waterloo” parody. It’s ridiculously catchy and you can hear it below. Please go to Racer Trash’s BandCamp page to get this and other tracks.and drop them a few coins for their excellent work.

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