Don't Shut Me Down By Abba

[237SJ]

Does this song remind anyone else of The Day Before You Came? I can hear similarities in the structure of the song.

[Buenchico]

The Guardian reviewer seems to agree with you:
"Don’t Shut Me Down . . . tells a story, a little like The Day Before You Came"
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/02/abbas-new-songs-reviewed-a-perky-moving-return-to-pops-highest-peaks

. . . as does the BBC's writer:
"The second track, Don't Shut Me Down, is a mini-melodrama in the vein of the Abba classic The Day Before You Came, where a woman returns to her partner years after walking out"
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58423452

[Mozz71]

It's a great tune. It has that classic Abba sound so it's inevitable that it was going to be similar to some of their oder material.

[237SJ]

Thanks Buenchico. So it's not just me then.