Dancing Queen
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Dancing Queen
Dancing Queen is the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer and actress Cher, released by Warner Bros. Records on September 28, 2018. It is Cher's first album in five years, following Closer to the Truth (2013). The album contains cover versions of songs recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with the title referencing their 1976 song "Dancing Queen". The album follows Cher's appearance in the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, based on the music of ABBA. - Wikipedia
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Rolling Stone
2018 - The pop icon turns Seventies classics into modern club bangers and brings out the dark burden of their late-career divorce songs.
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Variety
2018 - In covering the Great Swedish Songbook, aka the ABBA catalog, it's sheer Cher-aoke. But if you're a fan of either artist, extreme fealty may be more of a feature than a flaw.
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NME
2018 - It's no musical masterpiece, but Cher's album of Abba covers is joyously camp – and also surprisingly poignant.
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Entertainment Weekly
2018 - Cher sends ABBA into disco bliss on Dancing Queen.
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The Guardian
2018 - Dancing Queen, an album of Abba covers that could easily have sailed by like glitter on the breeze, is often surprisingly ingenious
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News Day
2018 - Cher pulls these classics into her world, rather than being drawn into the stylish Europop of the originals.
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Clash Magazine
2018 - A collision of two equal, elemental, forces, the like of which we may never see again.
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Slant Magazine
2018 - For an artist who’s built an entire third act with her own distinct niche in dance music, the album feels surprisingly derivative.
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star 2
Dancing Queen – except for one song – has nothing new to say and simply reeks with the appalling stench of greed.
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Entertainment Focus
t’s fair to say that what Cher has done on Dancing Queen isn’t revolutionary but that’s what makes it work so well.
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Gulf News
2018 - A bit sad.
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Cryptic Rock
2018 - Cher has re-invented, while stayed true to some well loved songs everyone will love to hear.
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Muu Muse
2018 - Cher Does ABBA Cheraoke and everybody wins.
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ACRN
2018 - The biggest problem with this album is that it’s a pure gimmick.
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All Music
It's just enough of an update to feel fresh, yet familiar enough to be nothing but a dose of glitzy, cheerful nostalgia.
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Washington Blade
2018 - And it’s every bit as enrapturing as the original, if not more.
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US Magazine
2018 - The one bad thing about Cher’s new album, Dancing Queen is that it’s only 10 songs.
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North Texas Daily
2018 - Overall, I really enjoyed this album from Cher, who honors ABBA beautifully in most of the songs.
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The Edge
Cher's new album of ABBA covers has dropped - and mamma mia, it's better than any of us could have imagined.
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The Telegraph
A guided missile of pure atomic pop.
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Inquirer
2018 - A burst of musical sunshine.
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Digital Journal
2018 - With Dancing Queen, Cher proves that she only gets better with age and experience.
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AARP
2018 - She brings a contemporary dance-club sizzle to the Swedish group’s hits.
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The Times
2018 - Having stolen the show in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again for the whole ten seconds she was in it, Cher has gone full Abba, with exactly the results you would expect.
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Cult MTL
2018 - Heavy synths and Auto-tune worked wonders for Cher in 1998 — it was innovative, even a little enchanting. Flash forward 20 years, and latching onto this style places a taint on these timeless anthems.
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Metro News
2018 - Dancing Queen’s appeal to the pink pound is so on-the-nose it’s hard to imagine the band was naive to its subtext.
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The Top Tens
2018 - Dancing Queen is a thoroughly good and pleasant listen that guarantees a lot of fun
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The Sphinx
2018 - This endearing mix showcases both the disco queen herself, and the talent of ABBA’s writing, in the best possible way, and ensures that that album, like Cher herself, is nothing but sheer entertainment, making it a new gem in the singer’s already iconic career.
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A Bit of Pop Music
2018 - Dancing Queen is a totally unnecessary cover album that at its worst sounds like karaoke and at best only makes minor sound changes to the original ABBA tracks, but at the same time is thoroughly enjoyable.
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CommMedia
2018 - A very exciting addition to her discography, the uniquely Cher disco style utilized on the album has proven not to have lost its charm, exhibiting that Cher hasn’t lost her sound or her grasp on the pop mainstream.
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Nouse
2018 - Overall, I enjoyed this album and if you're a fan of Cher, or ABBA, or both, then I would definitely recommend checking it out.
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Spalding Today
2018 - I love Cher - and I quite like Abba too - but putting both of them together in this album, I’m not sure it works.
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Thomas Bleach
2018 - Whilst this is a covers album she does make these songs her own and creates a fun and nostalgic listening experience.
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The Echo
2018 - I think the album is a lot of fun and everyone should give it a listen.
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