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Don't Shut Me Down
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox song
| name = Don't Shut Me Down
| cover = ABBA - Don't Shut Me Down cover art.png
| caption = CD single cover
| type = single
| artist = ABBA
| album = Voyage
| A-side = "I Still Have Faith in You" (double A-side)
| released =
| recorded = 20172021
| genre = Disco
| length = 3:56
| label = Polar
| writer = * Benny Andersson
* Bjrn Ulvaeus
| producer = * Benny Andersson
* Bjrn Ulvaeus
| prev_title = Under Attack
| prev_year = 1982
| title2 = I Still Have Faith in You
| next_title = Just a Notion
| next_year = 2021
| misc =
}}
"'Don't Shut Me Down'" is a song by Swedish pop music group ABBA. It was released as a single on 2 September 2021 as a dual single alongside "I Still Have Faith in You". Both songs are from the band's ninth studio album and its first in 40 years, 'Voyage'. Agnetha Fltskog performs lead vocals. It became the first ABBA release to top the Swedish singles chart since "Summer Night City" in 1978. The song incorporates three key changes.
Lyric video
ABBA released a lyric video on YouTube of "Don't Shut Me Down" to accompany the release. It was directed by Mike Anderson of the production company Able.
The lyric video gained 1.4 million views in 24 hours following its release, placing in the top three of YouTube's trending rankings in 12 countries, including the UK.'The Guardian' [https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/03/abba-singles-race-to-top-of-streaming-charts-in-comeback-triumph Abba singles race to top of streaming charts in comeback triumph]
Reception
"Don't Shut Me Down" became a comeback single for ABBA, charting in the top ten in eleven countries and reaching number one in Sweden and Switzerland, as well as the Euro Digital Songs chart.
The song received widely positive reviews from music critics. Kate Mossman of the 'New Statesman' wrote: "Its opening has a West End feel, like 'Evita's tentative address to the masses, but then it whizzes with a 'Dancing Queen' mirrorball glissando into squelchy 1980s disco, giving the impression it's going to be straightforward. But then it mutates, and mutates into something wonderful and strange." Jon Pareles of 'The New York Times' was similarly positive, calling the song "a strutting march with gleaming orchestration and scrubbing disco guitars, stolid and earnestly tuneful." The song was featured in 'Billboard' magazine's list of the 100 best songs of 2021.
Charts
Certifications
References
Category:2021 singles
Category:2021 songs
Category:Polar Music singles
Category:ABBA songs
Category:Number-one singles in Sweden
Category:Number-one singles in Switzerland
Category:Songs written by Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus
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