Nearly 40 years later – ABBA’s comeback album falls short of expectations – News

Half of the album is made up of stories

Five of the ten songs are faster, the other half are quiet, poems and a Christmas song filled with cheese on top. Of course, Abba’s have had songs in their repertoire in the past, just think “I Have a Dream”, “The Day Before You Came” or “Fernando” – but it’s not their trademark.

However, ballads make up half of the album, which would be halfway tolerable if the other five albums – the fastest – had a catchy tune from well-known songs from the past like “Waterloo” or “The Winner Takes It All”.

But apart from the song “Don’t Shut Me Down” heard before the album’s release, and at most “No Doubt About It,” there are other songs missing, which unreservedly remind us of the sexy daddy of the past.

Abba remained at a lower level

Forgive me that ABBA didn’t include any “features,” i.e. no guest musicians, on their album, as Elton John did recently on his album Closing Sessions. Fans would even consider themselves lucky that oppa didn’t even try to look different from oppa or even contemporary.

Abba remained an ABBA, with the difference that the song’s material was no longer up to the level of ABBA’s earlier days. It turns out that “Voyage,” her ninth studio album, is rather mediocre by ABBA standards and certainly not her best.