paid homage to a legend in the making: . The Scandal actor specifically chose to emulate the track star's 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials look, which required orange hair, long nails, and tattoos.
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ABBA‘s Agnetha Fältskog has revealed that she had early reservations about the ABBA Voyage show, sharing that she was initially “suspicious”.Back in 2017, it was announced that the band would reunite in digital form in 2019. After the reunion tour was delayed, ABBA Voyage was finally announced in September 2021.The virtual tour has been a huge hit at the purpose built ABBA Arena in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – described by NME as “an epic avatar mega-mix from a brave new world” – and has now been extended into 2024.However, Fältskog has revealed that she wasn’t totally convinced by the idea at first.
The Swedish singer-songwriter – who today released her new album ‘A+’ – told The Guardian in a new interview: “I was a bit suspicious, I must say – you know, what is this?”“We were working the whole of February [2020] to prepare – it doesn’t sound so much, but it was, performing the songs with all these technicians and all the things on your body. We were working really hard and I’ll be totally honest, I was not so comfortable with it.“But after maybe four or five days you get into it: OK, I’ll go there again.
Also, the music helps, because it gives us a very special feeling, and somewhere along the way I could just feel proud – they really want to see us again.”Fältskog added that while she enjoyed the opening night, she would like to see the show again secretly, “Like a little mouse”. She added: “Sitting in the corner, just looking.”She also praised the format of the tour as it doesn’t require her to be physically present.
“I’m at home in my bed, and at the same time in London. It’s very cleverly done, isn’t it?”Back in May ABBA Voyage celebrated one year since its premiere, and organisers marked the anniversary by
.paid homage to a legend in the making: . The Scandal actor specifically chose to emulate the track star's 2021 U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials look, which required orange hair, long nails, and tattoos.
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Agnetha Fältskog has released ‘I Should’ve Followed You Home’, a reimagined single from her forthcoming album ‘A+‘, which features Take That‘s Gary Barlow.The ABBA singer is sharing ‘A+’, a re-versioning of her 2013 solo album ‘A’ next month, and has today (September 29) released the new iteration of ‘I Should’ve Followed You Home’. It again features Barlow, and the vocals are the original recordings, however the music itself has been produced differently.Fältskog said of the single: “I have such happy memories with this song, and my first meeting with Gary! I love this duet and the new version is even better!!!”‘A+’ is due out on October 13 and you can pre-order/pre-save it here.The single follows the release of ‘Where Do We Go From Here?’ from ‘A+’ last month.Ahead of the 10-year anniversary of the record, Fältskog discussed the idea of what it would sound like if it was created in 2023 alongside songwriter and producer Jörgen Elofsson.
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, you're incorrect. If you don't believe me, just watch this 20-second clip of the two of them interacting, which is going viral on social media for, ahem, obvious reasons.In the clip, which Washington posted to Twitter and Instagram, , dressed in a sultry red ensemble of sheer lace top and matching trousers, walks down a hotel hallway and knocks on a door.
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Quentin Tarantino‘s Django Unchained in her new memoir.The actor, who starred alongside Jamie Foxx in the 2012 movie which focused on slavery in the American South, claims in excerpts from her book Thicker Than Water via The Daily Beast that the original script included a scene where she “escaped abuse running naked down the street” and a “terrifyingly brutal rape scene” which she had reservations about being part of.In the end neither scene was filmed and Washington says she still doesn’t know exactly why the latter in particular never went ahead.She wrote: “Jamie and Quentin stood in the corner. Both men were looking down at the dirt floor, and as I walked toward them, Tarantino announced that we were all going home.”Washington went on: “The scene would be cut from the script.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Kerry Washington explains in her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water,” that she actively rejected playing the “white girl’s best friend” after starring in “Against the Ropes,” the 2004 boxing drama headlined by Meg Ryan and Omar Epps. The film starred Ryan as Jackie Kallen, the first woman to achieve success as a boxing manager.