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from the tear-a-corner-off-your-DREAD-card dept.
Digital Music News has a brief mention about ABBA's new digital costumes, made by Industrial Light and Magic, which will be used at the concert tour accompanying their album release. It sounds like a similar method as was used to make Andy Serkis look like Gollum, but this time making people look younger and fresher. It's unclear whether the avatars will be mapped on the fly to real movement happening along with the concert or just running through pre-precorded routines.
Creative Director Ben Morris says his company has recreated ABBA in its prime, from 1979. "We are creating them as digital characters, then use performance capture techniques to animate them and make them look perfectly real," Morris says.
Klaxons' James Righton and Little Boots will both appear as part of the live band. The reunion will be the first in four decades with "I Still Have Faith in You" and "Don't Shut Me Down" celebrating the announcement.
The new ABBA album Voyage will contain ten new tracks, with at least one Christmas song. Will the group dethrone Mariah Carey's Christmas tradition of taking the top of the Christmas charts? I guess we'll see later this year.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 09 2021, @08:52AM (3 children)
TFA: "ABBA is poised to reach a whole new generation of new fans, especially on TikTok."
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by looorg on Thursday September 09 2021, @09:00AM (2 children)
What they hope and wish for is doubtful I would say. Somehow I don't see the TikTok generation starting to listening to grandpa music just cause it's available in short video format.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Thursday September 09 2021, @09:02AM
/me dusts off his flares...
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 09 2021, @10:02AM
well. the problem is that nobody did voices like ABBA did voices until the Spice Girls came along.
people can dismiss granpa music all they want, but the fact is that we are still listening to the greats from 200 years ago, and ABBA will be relevant for the rest of history.
it's like queen and the beatles.
members of queen were better at making music and singing, but the beatles were there first.
whether the younger generations know it or not, they will be hearing ABBA or ABBAwannabes fairly often, and many of them will like it.