# ABBA is back **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219 "2018-04-27T14:22:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/1 "2018-04-27T14:22:26Z")
[All four of them in the studio, and two new songs already!](https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/27/entertainment/abba-new-music/index.html) _This_ is how a week should end. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2018, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/2 "2018-04-27T14:57:58Z")
The first song, set to be released in December is "“I Still Have Faith in You”…but I’m betting we’ll get to hear some(or even all) of it long before then. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/3 "2018-04-28T11:22:50Z")
Grandchildren need college funds? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/4 "2018-04-28T11:29:58Z")
I am an ABBA fan but am not over excited about this. Apart from the lyrics and music they traded a lot on the girls looks, sparkly dress and voices. The voices and sparkly dress will be difficult to replicate. I loved the visit to the ABBA Museum in Stockholm but sometimes I think it is better to sit back. What did surprise me - which I learned at the museum- was that their success was not welcolmed universally in Sweden. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/5 "2018-04-28T11:33:14Z")
Abba is hugely popular in Australia, and I think all their hits still stand up today, they’re outstanding works. Bjorn and Benny have continued to produce music over the years that remains high quality, so I think that at the least they’ll make something worth listening to. I know Agnetha was still producing her own music sporadically too, not sure about Frida, so I am hopeful. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/6 "2018-04-28T12:09:22Z")
For some reason, I’d thought one of them had died. Guess I was wrong. I have a bunch of their albums on vinyl and I still enjoy them. I’ll be curious to see what ABBA 2.0 will be like - hope they don’t let me down. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/7 "2018-04-28T12:11:47Z")
…in pog form. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/8 "2018-04-28T12:22:46Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > For some reason, I’d thought one of them had died. Guess I was wrong. > > I have a bunch of their albums on vinyl and I still enjoy them. I’ll be curious to see what ABBA 2.0 will be like - hope they don’t let me down. 😃 I have four vinyl records of “Arrival”. (the one in the helicopter). Heaven only knows where they all came from. ---
**Author:** ![DooWahDiddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@DooWahDiddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DooWahDiddy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/9 "2018-04-28T14:49:54Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > Grandchildren need college funds? 🙂 You’re forgetting about _Mamma Mia_. Those guys need money like I need a hair brush (spoiler: I don’t). I, for one, am excited about the idea, but of course it remains to be seen if the music has changed and how good it still is. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/10 "2018-04-28T15:12:32Z")
ABBA was a great musical group, and I am excited to hear the news. ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/11 "2018-04-28T18:59:33Z")
Saturday morning 5 am … my husband who has gotten up for the day, comes back upstairs, turns on hall light and announced to me “ABBA” is back! I read it the night before and did not have any urge to wake him at 11 pm to say the same thing. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![nachtmusick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ac91a4/32.png) [@nachtmusick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nachtmusick)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/12 "2018-04-28T19:15:03Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I am an ABBA fan but am not over excited about this. Apart from the lyrics and music they traded a lot on the girls looks, sparkly dress and voices. The voices and sparkly dress will be difficult to replicate. They are calling it an “avatar tour”, which means the new material (and some of the old material, no doubt) will be performed on video by digital reconstructions of how they looked at the time they broke up. I guess it’s worth a try. I wouldn’t really look forward to seeing their 70-something old selves performing directly. I’m a big fan, but I’ve seen recordings of their live performances and they didn’t exactly kill it on stage even in their heyday. I assume the voices are holding up, or they wouldn’t be bothering. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/13 "2018-04-28T19:17:06Z")
ABBA is back… to being ABBA? 'cause it’s a palindrome… ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/14 "2018-04-28T19:17:46Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > ABBA was a great musical group, and **I am excited to hear the news.** Right…but can you hear the drums? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/15 "2018-04-28T19:20:37Z")
Wow! Everything bland is new again! ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2018, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/16 "2018-04-28T19:58:24Z")
“You should have stayed retired!” shout the members of Björn Again as they launch a sparkly, glittery assault on ABBA headquarters, determined to remain the primary purveyors of “Waterloo” and other such hits. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/17 "2019-07-25T03:06:18Z")
Bumped. PBS will show the documentary _ABBA Forever: A Celebration_ on Aug. 24. Check local listings: [ABBA Forever A Celebration Preview - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1ZxNgiR0qU) ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/18 "2019-07-26T07:50:26Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > … I loved the visit to the ABBA Museum in Stockholm … > > What did surprise me - which I learned at the museum- was that their success was not welcolmed universally in Sweden. Could you elaborate on this statement please? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/19 "2019-07-26T08:20:36Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Could you elaborate on this statement please? I posted that a year ago so good luck with my memory! 🙂 There was something called the Music Movement (I think) in Sweden that wanted more attention (and in the end, money) to go to other musicians apart from ABBA. They were quite vocal and significant. The Museum doesn’t attempt to distrspect the Movement, it just relates it. That aside the Museum was very good- the usual gift shop with Tee Shirts etc but you could browse all the history of the group, get up and do ABBA karaoke (I resisted the urge) and have your picture taken in the helicopter from the cover of the Arrival album (a smaller version). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219/20 "2019-07-26T13:16:09Z")
I liked their stuff back in the 1970s, but not enough to want to go see them in concert or anything. So the only thing that’s relevant to me is whether their new songs are something I’d want to listen to now. And given the overall track record of bands getting back together after many years have passed and recording new material, my expectations are extremely low. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abba-is-back/813219.md?page=2)