Dancing Queen
by Cher
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 55 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 41 out of 55
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 55
  3. Negative: 10 out of 55
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  1. longjetty7
    Oct 1, 2018
    6
    I have mixed feelings about "Dancing Queen". It's technically a good album: 10 of ABBA's greatest hits, sung by Cher. How could it be bad? If you're looking for something simple and enjoyable, this certainly delivers. At the same time though, it really does just feel like Cher doing karaoke. Aside from the vocals, not much is different from the original recordings. I guess it's a testamentI have mixed feelings about "Dancing Queen". It's technically a good album: 10 of ABBA's greatest hits, sung by Cher. How could it be bad? If you're looking for something simple and enjoyable, this certainly delivers. At the same time though, it really does just feel like Cher doing karaoke. Aside from the vocals, not much is different from the original recordings. I guess it's a testament to how iconic ABBA's music is, but it also feels like a lazy cash-grab from someone who really should just be making her own music.… Expand

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Clash Music
    Oct 2, 2018
    90
    The party standards are present and correct. ‘Mamma Mia’ is as dizzying good and gay as you’ll get, the aural equivalent of downing three bottles of pink fizz in an Uber with Magic FM, getting pissed with your pals, on the way to the best night of your life. ‘Waterloo’ crashes in on glam-rock drums, a pantomime dame in silver thigh-highs, as she battles and bosses that irresistible chorus. ‘SOS’? Not even going to talk about it. It’s a double-dunt of serotonin; a sure-fire cure for sadness.
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  2. Variety
    Oct 2, 2018
    68
    You can enjoy the album and still wish that producer Taylor had done more to put a new or distinctive signature on this time-honored material. Well, actually, he adds one trademark touch fairly often: The overt AutoTune phasing that made his collaboration with Cher on 1998’s “Believe” so memorable returns here any number of times.
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  3. Rolling Stone
    Sep 28, 2018
    80
    The 72-year-old makes ABBA songs not only sound like they should’ve been written for her in the first place but like they firmly belong in 2018, a feat considering the sometimes deliciously dated production and performance of many of ABBA’s biggest hits.
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