ABBA are back!!!!

[allezfred]

- YouTube

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[skatingguy]

If I hadn't seen the news this morning I would think I was about to be rickrolled.

 

[Simone411]

Thank you so much for sharing this. I saw something about it on my local news a couple of days ago.

I'm totally excited about it!

 

[Sylvia]

ABBA Voyage Official Website - 2025 ABBA Concert in London

Experience ABBA on stage in a ground-breaking concert in a custom-built arena in London, UK. Embark on your ABBA Voyage in 2025. Buy concert tickets now.

abbavoyage.com

No comeback would be complete without new music. ‘Voyage’, the album, featuring 10 new songs will be released on 05.11.21. The first two singles from ‘Voyage’ are ‘I Still Have Faith in You’ and 'Don't Shut Me Down' – and both are available to stream right now.

I Still Have Faith In You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzEY1MfXrQ

Don't Shut Me Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGWFa3jznI

 

[genevieve]

New ABBA music

Virtual concert with CGI

 

[skipaway]

ABBA!

 

[love skating]

Will Mariah get new ideas for her freeskate?!

 

[VALuvsMKwan]

One word - magic.

 

[alchemy void]

Don't Shut Me Down is an absolute bop which wouldn't sound out of place on ABBA Gold (or perhaps on of the first tracks on More ABBA Gold). I Still Have Faith In You is stunning and the perfect song to acknowledge their 40 year absence from making new music. 40 years!

The girls sound so great and authentic--both songs are true to their sound and DNA as a group. I'm perched for the album.

 

[PeterG]

ABBA Voyage Official Website - 2025 ABBA Concert in London

Experience ABBA on stage in a ground-breaking concert in a custom-built arena in London, UK. Embark on your ABBA Voyage in 2025. Buy concert tickets now.

abbavoyage.com

I Still Have Faith In You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAzEY1MfXrQ

Don't Shut Me Down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGWFa3jznI

Very happy for new music, but I hope the rest of the album is better than these two songs. A definite step-down from their last album, The Visitors, which is arguably their best.

 

[manhn]

Don’t Shut Me Down is a classic already.

 

[MacMadame]

ABBA was ever gone??

 

[Orm Irian]

This is so amazing. I love both the new singles already.

And no, ABBA was never gone. ABBA is like Doctor Who: never gone, just on hiatus.

 

[jamesy]

I, for one, welcome our new ABBAtar overlords.

 

[liv]

I was smiling widely as I watched * I still have faith in you* for the first time. I was just so HAPPY!! It just filled me with such joy. Generations love their music and to see them reunite, after so many years of saying never, is just so uplifting. A bright spot in 2021.

 

[attyfan]

Some of you might find this interesting:

Mamma Mia! The ABBA princess? - Royal Central

ABBA might be Swedish pop royalty, but did you know one of their members is actual royalty? It turns out one of their founders and lead singers, Anni-Frid

royalcentral.co.uk

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

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[PeterG]

Ugh! Disco! Give me some old blues-rock or progressive rock any day.

Is progressive rock that music my grandfather listened to on his gramophone?

 

[Jot the Dot Dot]

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[allezfred]

Ugh! Disco! Give me some old blues-rock or progressive rock any day.

Well, how about you go off to the old blues-rock/progressive rock thread and leave the rest of us to enjoy ABBA.

 

[genevieve]

Will Mariah get new ideas for her freeskate?!

oooo when will we see virtual competitions? Too bad this news didn't come out last year when skaters had to submit videos

Very happy for new music, but I hope the rest of the album is better than these two songs. A definite step-down from their last album, The Visitors, which is arguably their best.

I got The Visitors when it came out - but could never tell anyone how much I liked it because it was so uncool. Even more uncool than just liking ABBA as an early-'80s new-waver The title track is great - and it means something entirely different than I thought it did back then.

 

[Finnice]

Yes yes yes! I like both of the new songs, and the old ones are classics. In their genre, they are unbeatable, says this punk rock girl.

 

[jamesy]

Don’t Shut Me Down is a classic already.

I would have worn out my cassingle tape if this had been released in the 80s. I love that they put out a new song that still had that ABBA hook.

 

[Simone411]

What I do know is that all my classmates from 1972 through 1976 (the year my fellow classmates and I graduated and there were exactly 76 of us in the Class of 76 ... bicentennial babies) will be ecstatic about it. We were always singing along with ABBA. We even performed to a couple of songs when I was in the Pep Squad ... we were Dancing Queens!

Yes it's all corny, but we sure loved ABBA! ??

 

[Finnice]

I have always loved Frida. I named a lynx after her. The Winner takes it all is such a story, and I Wonder tells the story of my life.
ABBA and Queen, wow! Such a good music and lyrics.

 

[allezfred]

There is nothing like an ABBA harmony. “Knowing Me, Knowing You” somehow manages to be heartbreaking and uplifting at the same time. Genius.

 

[overedge]

It will be really interesting to see how these concerts with avatars go over. If that format is successful, it opens up a whole new set of possibilities for, um, older artists.

 

[genevieve]

It will be really interesting to see how these concerts with avatars go over. If that format is successful, it opens up a whole new set of possibilities for, um, older artists.

I really, really hope not.

 

[alchemy void]

I have always loved Frida. I named a lynx after her. The Winner takes it all is such a story, and I Wonder tells the story of my life.
ABBA and Queen, wow! Such a good music and lyrics.

Frida has always been my favorite, too.

 

[overedge]

I really, really hope not.

IIRC there have already been a couple of "concerts" with avatars of dead performers, and they didn't get good reviews. This may be different with the motion-capture technology being done on live performers. From the brief glimpses on YouTube IMO it looked relatively convincing, but I'm not sure how many people are going to pay $$$$ to watch it "live".