related links
Agnetha Faltskog - If I Thought You’d Ever Change Your Mind
Sometimes you will have to take a step back to move ahead. Sometimes you need to return to forgotten times and places to find your way home.
"The musical impressions of my adolescence remain deeply rooted in my soul. This is something I've carried with me through my life. My strongest emotions are connected to these songs.".
That's the essenence of the "manifesto" which has guided Agnetha's selection of material for the 13-track album which is due out later this spring.
Not really knowing if she was ever going to make another album, music remains a focus of Agnetha's everyday life. The project that was to become the new album took a turn and the actual work began three or four years ago when Agnetha instead of "looking for the new" started to look at her own memories. It became her private research project she went back to her own recollections. She got stacks of rare records and re-issues. She read numerous books and researched charts of the sixties.
After numerous sessions in Stockholm's legendary Atlantis Studio - where the first ever Abba recordings were also made thirty years ago - Agnetha Fältskog's first album in 17 years is finally ready.
The premiere single is "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind". Composed by John Cameron, Agnetha first heard Cilla Black's version of the song in 1969.
"This is very much a song that represents the album but also a song which has been a standout throughout the recordings. We decided early on that this was going to be the first single, even if with a collection like this there is no shortage of potential single. It has a long and telling title." Agnetha says laughing, "and I think it is the most beautiful song".
The album "My Colouring Book" will be released April 19 through Warner Music International. 'If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind' is released April 12.
Also See: ilikemusic.com
Bookmark & Share:
Kelly Rowland: ilikemusic because... Music sets me free. It’s freedom.
Lupe Fiasco: ilikemusic because... It gives me a chance to escape and reach people I wouldn’t ordinarily be able to reach. And without music the world would be kinda quiet.
Kat Vipers: ilikemusic because... There's not many other things to like.
Riot! Traffic: ilikemusic because... music is LiFe...and more than...
Oliver, Young Knives: ilikemusic because... It evokes a mood and a feeling of when you last heard the track.
Steff, Webmaster Musebr.com: ilikemusic because... the shows are very good, we make friends, we jump, and everybody scream so loud, and for a moment we forget all the problems of the world!
Jo Whiley: ilikemusic because... It makes me laugh and it makes my cry and it gets me out of a stress if I’m in a stress, and, if I’m in a good place then it will make me in a better place. It’s all about the emotion, it’s all about the feeling where music takes you to and what affect it has on you.
Master Gee: ilikemusic because... It gives me an opportunity to truly express myself, unlike what happens in an everyday living situation where there are restrictions on you and limitations on you and demands on you and bills to pay, through music I can truly be comfortable with who I am, and do what I really want to do and say what I really want to say.
Jacbob: ilikemusic because... It's very VERY good