The nice day has arrived for European music. This Saturday, Could 11, the grand ultimate of Eurovision 2024 takes place on the Malmö Area in Malmö (Sweden), through which 25 nations compete to win. After the efficiency of all of the delegations, the devoted followers of the competition lived a second filled with melancholy with the reminiscence of ABBA’s efficiency and their Waterloo on the competition in 1974. To have fun the 50 years of the band’s triumph on this competitors, The competition has recreated the band’s efficiency with Synthetic Intelligence.
Some sort of shock was anticipated for the celebration of this half century of some of the excellent performances within the historical past of Eurovision, which additionally coincided with the headquarters within the hometown of ABBA. Nevertheless, neither Agnetha Fältskog, nor Björn Ulvaeus, nor Benny Andersson nor Anni-Frid Lyngstad, any of the members of ABBA, bodily reappeared within the ultimate. Though they had been current in a most peculiar approach.
Avoiding the sort of assembly, the group had already assured that it might not attend the assembly. The final time the members of the legendary band met was in Could 2022, once they introduced the band’s newest album, Voyage. The present was starred by their holographic avatars, a technique that they’ve additionally used on this event.
Eurovision broadcast a efficiency created by way of Synthetic Intelligence, through which the 4 members of the group reappeared with their actual voices. It was their avatars that revived the recollections of what the efficiency was like and what that emblematic victory meant. Those that had been current had been the trio of former Eurovision champions, the Swedes Carola and Charlotte Perrelli and the Austrian Conchita Wurst, who accompanied the efficiency with their voices.
The efficiency generated a lot of reactions on social networks. “I actually do not know how one can really feel about these ABBA avatars,” reads a publish on X (previously Twitter). “Enjoying with the emotions that ABBA got here out with,” mentioned one other Web person. “What a horrible factor they’ve executed with AI to symbolize ABBA,” expressed one other Web person. Undoubtedly, this technology-laden efficiency has been some of the talked about and emotional moments of the evening.
