If, in 1605, Miguel de Cervantes had the pop sensibilities of Sweden’s ABBA, Don Quixote might have spent the past 400 years being sung at every iteration of a stadium or karaoke bar on the planet.

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs and videos — and anything else that strikes them as intriguing. Cher, ‘Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After ...

BOTTOM LINE Mamma mia! Cher goes deep on her album of Abba covers. Everything about “Dancing Queen” (Warner Bros.) is surprising. The idea that Cher would cover an album’s worth of songs of one of her ...