The Swedish teen group A * Teens (two boys and two girls) ensured that in 1999 some old songs by Abba in more modern dance versions ended up in the charts again. After the successful album The Abba Generation and hits like Mamma Mia, Super Trouper and Gimme Gimme Gimme! the formula seemed to have worked out, but the A-Teens couldn't stop yet. The second album ran out of Abba songs and did little.
On the third album, the development towards the status of a teenage group with its own identity continues. Only the title New Arrival still refers to one of the most famous albums of their Swedish examples. Besides covers like Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company), The Letter (The Box Tops) and One Night In Bangkok (Murray Head) we hear a lot of uncomplicated sing-along pop, which is still mainly based on Europop and hardly on American hip hop and R&B. Nothing wrong with that, but the eternal comparison with Abba, which the group has brought about itself, is still clearly in favor of Agnetha, Frida, Björn and Benny. (MS)more
