{"id":38749,"date":"2018-04-27T15:55:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/04\/27\/abbas-return-will-be-either-genius-or-disaster-but-nothing-in-between-alexis-petridis\/"},"modified":"2018-04-27T15:55:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T13:55:55","slug":"abbas-return-will-be-either-genius-or-disaster-but-nothing-in-between-alexis-petridis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=38749","title":{"rendered":"Abba&#039;s return will be either genius or disaster \u2013\u00a0but nothing in between | Alexis Petridis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish four-piece, returning with new material after 35 years, have seen critics finally acclaim their pop brilliance \u2013 but they still aren\u2019t immune from writing turkeys\u2018I Still Have Faith In You\u2019 \u2013 What do you think Abba\u2019s new song will be like?We live in an era where almost every legendary band that can re-form has re-formed, and where technology means not even death is a barrier to 2Pac or Roy Orbison taking the stage once more. The artists who refuse to return carry a certain cachet, and Abba were the most famous hold-outs of all, which makes their decision to record new material a surprise, especially because they don\u2019t need the money. Related: Abba announce first new songs for 35 years Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2018\/apr\/27\/abba-return-will-be-either-genius-or-disaster-but-nothing-in-between-alexis-petridis\" target=\"_blank\">Abba&#039;s return will be either genius or disaster \u2013\u00a0but nothing in between | Alexis Petridis<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish four-piece, returning with new material after 35 years, have seen critics finally acclaim their pop brilliance \u2013 but they still aren\u2019t immune from writing turkeys\u2018I Still Have Faith In You\u2019 \u2013 What do you think Abba\u2019s new song will be like?We live in an era where almost every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}