Is Frida going to sing a song with Dan Daniell at all. Bobby’s Brother said Frida was.

Sonia, Australia

As I recall reading, Dan Daniell said he wanted to record with Frida on his most recent album, Opus (released in December 2023), but that didn’t happen.

Recently, an authorised documentary film about American group The Beach Boys was released on Disney+. It became controversial after people theorised the possible usage of AI voice cloning to “fake” some supposed interview snippets, and I wonder if the recent Against the Odds documentary on ABBA did the same (not to mention that both films rely on a “sanitised” portion of the group’s history).
I’ve only seen the English version, and I don’t know if the Swedish version is subtitled or dubbed. AI dubbing (for foreign markets) has become popular in Europe recently, and it wouldn’t surprise me if it affected that documentary’s production cycle.

Love,
Aaron, Australia

I’ve compared the first 20 minutes or so of the Swedish and English versions. Aside from subtitles on Swedish interviews in the English version, some (new, non-ABBA) interviews and faked newspaper headlines in Swedish in the Swedish broadcast and English in the English version, and some fractional differences in editing, they are the same (an image might be on screen a second longer in one version). ABBA had no involvement in this documentary. Apparently, most interviews are archival from the BBC and other sources, there’s no sign of any AI faking of interviews.

In which formats is the English book The Book of ABBA: Melancholy Undercover by Jan Gradvall? I see hardcover & softcover on 10 October 2024, paperback on 8 May 2025. I´m a bit confused with his info about this book.

Greetings and thanks… take care
Wolfgang, Germany

It is confusing as different sites list different formats. The author recently posted a video showing the hardback UK edition on Instagram.
There will be two different English editions: one for the UK and “Commonwealth countries” published by Faber and Faber in October 2024, and one for the US and Canada (with a different cover) by St Martin’s Press in June 2025. The publishers for both versions list the book as hardback.

UPDATE 15 October: the October UK edition is hardback, the Australian edition is paperback; the May edition is the UK paperback.