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If you were a teenager in Europe during the late 2000s, you\u2019ll vividly remember Agnes\u2019s voice from the soaring harmonies and dramatic strings of \u201cRelease Me,\u201d which hit the top 10 all over the continent. Yet following the success of that single, while Agnes remained a notable pop star in Scandinavia\u2014it helped that she\u2019d first broken out via a Swedish singing-competition show in 2005\u2014she released one more album in 2012 before going quiet for nearly a decade.<\/p>\n
Then, in 2021, she made a triumphant return with the one-two punch of killer pop bangers \u201cFingers Crossed\u201d and \u201c24 Hours,\u201d the first two singles off her superb fifth album, Magic Still Exists.<\/em> Packed with wall-to-wall hooks and immaculate disco-inspired production, it remains one of the strongest (and most underrated) pop albums in recent memory\u2014even if, partly due to the pandemic inhibiting her ability to promote it, the record didn\u2019t quite get the attention it deserved. (Though that isn\u2019t to say it wasn\u2019t a hit in her home country: Magic Still Exists<\/em> earned Agnes four Swedish Grammy nominations in 2022, and she took home the prize for composer of the year.)<\/p>\n Now, Agnes is back again\u2014and finally ready to announce her sixth album, Beautiful Madness,<\/em> another collection of masterful pop gems that lands on January 23.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been four years since I released my last album, but it feels like time has been flying,\u201d the musician says over Zoom from a studio in Stockholm, where she\u2019s been recording live versions of some of the album\u2019s tracks. \u201cIt\u2019s exciting, but nerve-wracking at the same time.\u201d After the limitations imposed on her throughout her last album cycle, Agnes is keen to make performing a central part of her roll-out this time\u2014and indeed, it\u2019s an album that will come to full, glorious life on stage, in no small part thanks to its club-ready sound. If Magic Still Exists<\/em> was, by and large, a sort of disco pop fantasia, Beautiful Madness<\/em> has its roots firmly in a rich variety of dance genres, from house to techno.<\/p>\n Photo: Swim Club<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you were a teenager in Europe during the late 2000s, you\u2019ll vividly remember Agnes\u2019s voice from the soaring harmonies and dramatic strings of \u201cRelease Me,\u201d which hit the top 10 all over the continent. Yet following the success of that single, while Agnes remained a notable pop star in Scandinavia\u2014it helped that she\u2019d first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2134503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[22587],"class_list":["post-2134502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-musician"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/The-Cult-Swedish-Pop-Star-Agnes-Returns\u2014and-Announces-Her-Club-Inspired.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2134502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134504,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2134502\/revisions\/2134504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2134503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2134502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2134502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2134502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}