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None of them need the money.
Swedish media is of course going gaga about this, and reporting on the accolades from international media. How easy we forget. ABBA was despised and spat on in Sweden during the height of their career: plastic, mind-less, vapid. The negative comments just kept coming with each subsequent album. I think they stopped recording partly because of this.
As for the new songs? Meh. They sound like something that didn't make the cut in '82. For Abbologists that's fine, since they want more of that stuff. For me, it'd be more interesting if they'd included some of the influences they've soaked up in the interim years. Björns the one who handles the ABBA legacy. Benny has made a lot of records in Swedish, most of it on the folk-sy side.
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