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"You won’t believe, but I have witnesses! What are the odds of me walking around Copenhagen meeting the legend himself! Isn’t Bjorn Ulvaeus Swedish, anyway?  I need to write a great review for the cruise company that stopped here today, because I am in town for 12 hour only and this was worthy the entire trip! The picture was taken 2 hours ago by his new girlfriend. The man is very charming and she is very nice and offered to take the picture! And today is Madonna’s birthday and the day I started working as a professional journalist. What a day!"

Björn Ulvaeus explained track-by-track for the album via Apple Music.

 Björn Ulvaeus explained track-by-track for the album via Apple Music.

“I Still Have Faith in You”

“When Benny played it to me, I thought, 'This is really epic.' It's about us and the bonds we have, about the loyalty we have to each other, and celebrating the fantastic career that we've gone through. Or haven't gone through—there's a lot left of it, as it seems—but there are more layers than that today in that lyric, but that I want the listener to find out by himself.”

“When You Danced With Me”

“It's a bit Nordic, but maybe more Scottish and Irish. I lived in England for six years, between '84 and '90, and I used to see these fairs that they had in the villages for the children. And that's what I saw before me when I heard the melody: a village fair, but somewhere in Ireland. It's about leavers and remainers. I grew up in a small town and I left it when I was 20. But somehow I'd come back to that little town and feel I have roots there.”

“Little Things”

“Benny tells me he didn't think of it as a Christmas song, but I, the minute I heard it, I said it cannot be anything else. It is early, early Christmas morning. The stockings are hanging right there and then this couple wakes up. This could be played for Christmases to come. And that would be great, because we want to own Christmas and New Year's Eve, like with [1980's] 'Happy New Year.'”

“Don't Shut Me Down”

“At that time we were kind of getting the hang of what the ABBAtars would be. This is about a woman who has broken up and regrets breaking up. And she is going to come back and see if the guy will take her back. So she sits on a bench in a park and it gets dark. And finally she gets the courage up to go and knock on the door. That's it at face value, but I see it as us, as ABBAtars, knocking on the doors of the fans: Please take us as we are now and don't shut us down. It's a little flirt with the disco of the '70s, but other than that, I don't think that any of the old songs have had any impact on the new songs.”

“Just a Notion”

“It's from '78 and it's never been released in its entirety before. There's been snippets on YouTube, but we thought it's a great song and it has very good vocals on it. Benny did a new backing track, so the band is new but the voices are old. And it illustrates in a way what we are doing in the ABBAtar concert in London, because we will have a live band but the original vocals.”

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/voyage/1583785050

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