Remember those new ABBA songs that were supposedly coming three years ago? They’re finally on the way, per a cryptic social-media post.
Remember those new ABBA songs and “virtual tour” that were supposedly on the way three and a half years ago? First it was two new songs, then six new songs, for a “Virtual ABBA” experience in collaboration with “American Idol” creator Simon Fuller? Well, finally something is on the way, judging by a vague social media post from the group that appeared in the wee hours of Thursday. “Join us at Abbavoyage.com,” it simply says, with a date of Sept.2,2021. It seems likely that the two new songs they announced so long ago — which are called “I Still Have Faith in You” and “Don’t Shut Me Down” — may finally be on the way, along with an album? That long-promised virtual tour, produced by “American Idol” mastermind Simon Fuller, which was apparently the cause of the long delay? Earlier this year, the group’s Bjorn Ulvaeus confirmed the music would “definitely” come out this year. “It’s not a case any more of it might happen, it will happen,” he told the Herald Sun. Now, it appears that the group’s first new music in nearly 40 years will finally be emerging soon. According to a report in the British paper The Sun, the show will involve “ABBA-tars” of the group, beamed onstage in a specially built London theatre, along with a documentary-style film on the band’s comeback. Speaking with the BBC in the early stages of the show’s production, Ulvaeus said the idea had been presented to the band by Fuller. “He came to Stockholm and he presented this idea to us that we could make identical digital copies of ourselves of a certain age and that those copies could then go on tour and they could sing our songs, you know, and lip sync.
