A+ / Where Do We Go From Here?

The animated music video for WDWGFH is on the Ross King section of ITV's Lorraine show tomorrow morning.

Those two dogs in the car with Agnetha obviously represent Bella and Bruno.

Having sat through Lorraine, I’m reminded why I never watch ITV.

A visual message from Agnetha was unexpected, but we only got a few seconds of the video.

Full video on YouTube from 10am.

I think once is enough for that! Seems very far removed from the real person. I’d rather it look a bit more like her.

There was actually a video message from Agnetha in the Lorraine feature. Someone’s presumably recorded it on their phone from the TV. Her message is at 2:40.

Nice cartoon and nice piccy of Agnetha and her doggies.

But the song, apart from maybe the first line or two doesn't sound like Agnetha. The cartoon doesn't even look like a young Agnetha. So, what is the point?

At least with the Voyage album the girls were sounding their age and everything age-apropriate. (Ok, on Dan, Agnetha sounded young middle aged mother but she easn't trying to sound in her 20s)

Yes, I have listened to it few more times. I can remember the melody and vocals a bit more, not really the lyrics while I hear it. But to be honest, they don't register with my brain - or emotions for very long after I hear the song.

I feel other people think the same on here. At best it's damning with faint praise.

There may have been a slight flicker of positive thoughts of a revival. Repeated hearings of the song and visuals of the video are playing tricks. There hasn't really been a movement. The song is corpse. It is dead. After a week, time for a burial.

It's not my favourite Agnetha single by a mile, but I, for one, seem to be in the minority, as I like it and can't get it out of my head. My 8 year old daughter keeps singing it around the house, so there's something to it!

Iam also looking forward to the new LP just to see how it has changed over the last 10 years. She is never going to have the voice she once did. But I still enjoy her output and can't wait to hear what Agnetha does next.

This song is up there with my favorite songs of Agnetha. I love it and I can't get it out of my head. I am amazed at some of the comments on here. Terrible.

I suppose a number of people sharing similar views on a new release could make it seem like there's nothing positive being said, but I think people have been honest about the single and I didn't detect any deliberate nastiness or negativity. Maybe the solution is to say only nice things and, if you don't like something, say nothing at all. Not very adult, not very healthy. Deliberate misbehaviour/trolling is one thing, but fangirl fawning from a bunch of middle-aged adults is the ultimate in cringe.

I have listened to the single since its release and, while it has slightly grown on me, I really can't be counted as a fan. I'm curious about what's been done to the album but not enough to shell out for bundles (yet). I've no strong feelings on the video. It's cute but, apart from the lips making the shapes of the lyrics, it bears no relation to the song. Not that much problem, really, but it could be used to visualize any song across all of Agnetha's albums (I can even imagine it working on The Heat Is On). And maybe its perky brightness is a hint about the level of additional pop sheen that has been added to an already quite poppy album. But it seems to have connected with Agnetha on an emotional level and that's probably worth more than the commercial job it was designed to do.  

The iTunes charts are handy from a PR point of view but, as I know from my own experience, they are absolutely meaningless. I'm an absolute nobody and managed to score four top five placings on the Irish iTunes charts. If only you knew how little it took for those four singles to do that   Put it this way, an industry insider told me in 2021 that Apple were considering taking down the iTunes shop and focusing solely on streaming. Right now, the Irish iTunes album chart has 91 albums: there aren't even enough sales/downloads to make a Top 100. As I say, they're handy for the smoke-and-mirrors of PR: some people do get kind of dazzled by the information and it makes for a slightly sexier press release (or at least it will until the harsh realities are more widely known).

I'm still surprised that the single has not been playlisted on Radio 2 - I would have thought it a basic courtesy to a superstar who gave them a world exclusive. 

No one loves ABBA more than me, but the new single just isnt in the same league as voyage (for me) and I wont be commenting on the video. Radio 2 has certainly surprised me too. If it does get added I will know later this evening and will post it of course.

A handful of people on this small forum don't like this one particular Agnetha track or at least have had misgivings about it, because they (including me) find it underwhelming musically and/or the vocal manipulation on it makes it sound in places, as someone said (and I agree), not much like Agnetha to no valid musical end.

Two or three here don't like these straightforward criticisms  - .and of course they're not obliged to. But total approval of everything by ABBA or by its individual members, musically, is called sycophancy. The alternative, as HOMETIME says ,is to say nothing about something we don't like. And occasionally, no doubt, we do just that - even though the silence itself might be saying something to other regular contributors to this forum!

Alan, to be frank, it's NOT a bold statement. It's actually quite a reasonable and realistic one, because it simply means "No one loves ABBA more than he/she/they does/do" whilst also implying that many people like ABBA as much as he/she/they do.

Thanks jj . That's exactly what I meant. I identify as he