To release an album after 40 years and still be the best of friends and enjoying each other’s company and still have total loyalty -who has experienced that? Nobody.” A preview of ABBAtars can be seen in the new music video for “I Still Have Faith In You.”Īt the press conference, Ulvaeus and Andersson explained that they hadn’t planned to write and record an entire new ABBA album, but after they began work on the digital concert in 2018, everything gelled. Ulvaeus, who along with Andersson attended the London press conference in person, said the latter track “is about realizing it is inconceivable to be where we are. 2, 2021.T (Photo: Fredrik Persson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images) A particularly goosebump-raising moment of that song is when Fältskog and Lyngstad trill in their signature heavenly harmonies, “You asked me not to leave/Well, here I am again/And I love you still.”ĪBBA's Bjoern Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson are seen live on a display from London during their Voyage event at Grona Lund, Stockholm, on Sept. The effervescent “Don't Shut Me Down” is a classic ABBA story-song in the vein of “The Day Before You Came,” while the earnest, nostalgic piano ballad “I Still Have Faith In You” is an ode to the bond that the four bandmates still share after all these years. Two songs off ABBA Voyage - the group’s first full-length LP since 1981’s The Visitors, which came out as the quartet's two married couples were getting divorced - premiered during Thursday’s press event. "Agnetha, Frida, Benny, and Bjorn got onstage in front of 160 cameras and almost as many VFX geniuses, and they performed every song in this show, to perfection, over five weeks," producer Ludvig Andersson explained during a globally streamed press conference that took place Thursday at the AcerlorMittal Orbit in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The ABBAtars were designed by Industrial Light and Magic (the visual effects company founded by George Lucas), and more than 850 people employed motion-capture technology to recreate band members Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad’s “every mannerism and every motion” from when they were “in their prime.” The “revolutionary” show, also titled “ABBA Voyage,” will run six nights a week and will feature ABBA holograms - cleverly known as “ABBAtars” - and a 10-piece live band playing 22 of the Swedish superstars’ greatest hits. 5, and the new songs will also be performed during a virtual concert residency that will open at a custom-built arena in East London on May 27, 2022. The 10-track album, ABBA Voyage, will be released on Nov. Mamma mia, here we go again! Fans are about to gimme, gimme, gimme ABBA all their money, money, money, as the Eurovision-winning pop stars have just announced that they are about to release their first studio album in 40 years.
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