FIRST TIME HEARING ABBA - THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL REACTION
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- FIRST TIME HEARING ABBA - THE WINNER TAKES IT ALL REACTION
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ABBA wasn't just a band. ABBA was a force of nature. One of the wonders of the world
YEAHHHH!!
😇
Timeless music.
This is the best review of this song I've seen. You didn't interrupt it at all and you responded with your facial expressions very emotionally per the words of the song. Nicely done!
ABBA IS a force of nature...
Can we stop for one moment and remember she is singing live... no auto tune.
the only way to do it, ask Beato
One more thing, they were divorced by this time all of them. Imagin tha feelings behind it.
@@asadahlberg1706 yes... singing you lost it all written by the person who you have separated from.
She's actually lip-syncing. Very common for this type of thing. Especially at that time.
@@nicolashalseth2591 Yes, though you can find a couple of live performances by ABBA on CZcams as well, though I haven't seen one of this song anywhere. Either way, no autotune, as it didn't exist yet.
Agnetha was singing the story of her life, written by her ex-husband playing the guitar standing right next to her!!! One of the greatest biographical songs ever!!
Yep, so many people now don't realize this was a true topic/story.
Yes, talk about professionalisme! From both of them, but Agneta had to portray and personalize the song! Dang that must have been so hard!
Abba is pop perfection ❤️
Her best performance ever ❤
Björn has denied that this is a biographical story., but❓
Exactly!!!
What ABBA did was so magical… only they never took advantage of it! They always stayed humble and never took it for granted. The best pop group ever
Sie haben soviel positives Image für Sweden...gebracht...dafür allein müßten die vier endlich mal vom Königshaus bzw dem Parlament einen hohen Orden bekommen......den hätten Sie echt verdient........Bitte liebe Politiker........macht es bitte...... .🙏🙏🙏✍️✍️✍️
sure, never took advantage of it ;)
Well said 😊
@@jfk21 you cant say they lived as royals …. Yeah they made gazilions of money, they drove BMW’s and yeah Benny and Frida owned a Ferrari…. Because she liked fast cars. They didn’t had outrageous houses…. If you see it is now, well very humble people
@@kengui7253 Sie haben 1.Milliarde ausgeschlagen....(.für 3.Konzerte....hatte ihnen ein Scheich geboten.....) ...hab das im Spiegel gelesen (Deutsches Information.s Magazin....2000)also um Geld ging es bei den 4 .ABBA.s schon lange nicht mehr.....
No autotune. Just amazing and magical. You are swept away to another world.
I've heard it a million times and it still 😢 up. 🥰
I almost cry everytime I listen to this beautiful and sad song. Masterpiece
It amazes me how people of her age haven't ever heard super famous songs like this before... 😱😱
I often think the same thing. A while back I watched a load of videos of youngsters reacting to Bohemian Rhapsody and was gobsmacked that they had never heard the song or heard of Queen. It's the same with Abba. These four people stood at the pinnacle of pop music for years, but the youngsters don't know them. Baffling.
Tbh, though, where would they hear them? The radio stations play the latest hits, and when youngsters listen to streaming services, they would obviously only have songs they know in their playlists. I doubt they tune in to oldies channels. For some of them, the parents, or possibly even grandparents might have some old records in their collection, but the kids probably wouldn’t play them. It’s pretty much the same for older people like myself. I know some “newer” music, even some songs I like, but ask me what’s currently in the charts, I wouldn’t know, because *my* playlists and the radio stations *I* listen to are mostly full of older songs.
@@patriciamillin1977 Good point about the radio stations etc. Though I can remember back in the 70s one of the joys of music was exploring and trying something unknown. We used to have record parties where we each brought a different LP record to share with the others. I got into a lot of different bands that way.
@@snowysnowyriver I agree, we explored a lot more back in those days, but again, it was mostly music from our generation. I also grew up listening to my parents’ records, and we had a music teacher at school who allowed us to bring in our own records and then discuss them rather than always just having to listen to his classical records (some of which I did love, my favourite being Gustav Holtz’ Planet Suite). But kids today have their phones or other devices that they listen to music on mainly with headphones, so they don’t generally share that listening experience. I assume they might talk about songs they like, but current music.
As parents we can play "our" music in our home, so that the children also get to love the music from our generation.
Yep Abba still works just fine, no dry eyes here.
I’m my humble opinion one of if not the greatest band of all time ABBA, I never tire of hearing their music.
There was the Bee Gees in America... and ABBA in Europa. And we still love them all... it was magic to hear ABBA!!!
Beautiful reaction. I'm a metalhead, but ABBA is one of my favorite Pop bands. The have huge number of great songs.
Same here.
Hey, if ABBA's good enough to have influenced Swedish Metal bands (and they did!), it's good enough for me. 🤷♂️
And awesome basslines. 🙂
@@revylokesh1783 für mich sind Sie die "Pop/Mozarts unserer Zeit"....die Beatels sehe ich als Vorreiter/Vorbild /Vorband...für diese hervorragenden ABBA,s .....
If you are into rock and metal, check out the pianist Gamazda.
It takes on a whole new meaning when you find out her ex husband is standing there next to her and wrote the song for her to sing. It is literally about their break up.
Isn't exactly.
Is a fiction, not a real story, not 'literally'
(obviously influenced by your own experiences)
and specialy the pianist Benny decides who is the Ladie in the lead voice for each song
Yes they broke up around this time.
True
@@eduardooscar309 Benny can say it was fiction, because he was also going through his own marriage waning and he didn’t want to think about his own feelings, but Björn HAS admitted that of course it was his (Björn’s) feelings about the divorce and that it took him an entire bottle of whiskey to be able to write the lyrics. You don’t have to do that if you’re writing fiction.
@@eduardooscar309 Ulvaeus admitted that the heartache of their breakup inspired the song, but noted that the _title_ (not lyrics) should not be taken literally: "Neither Agnetha nor I were winners in our divorce." The booklet for the double CD compilation ABBA - The Definitive Collection states _"The Winner Takes It All"_ is the song where Bjorn admits that the sad experience of his and Agnetha's divorce the previous year left its mark on the lyrics."
I am a punk of the 80's and there are ABBA songs I love. This one and 'The Day Before You Came'. There is nobody on Earth who doesn't love an ABBA song.
Hahame too…there was a time when it wasn’t ‘cool’ to like this band (more because of those ‘thank you for the music songs’), but those two songs you mentioned are perfect (pop) songs and you can’t not like them 😊
Punk's not dead.
There two best ABBA songs, but there isn't a bad one.
I love ABBA and “The day before you came”is my favourite of all their songs.
Also “Eagle”is a classic.
Must admit I prefer their more obscure stuff to songs like super trouper or dancing queen
Yes my partner was a skin head then a punk rocker long before I knew him and ABBA was his guilty pleasure!
I just adored them always instrumentals just fab and voices just pure.
Keep listening, they will become one of your favorite groups ever. Beautiful harmonies and soaring piano melodies are just so easy to listen to. Never heard a bad Abba song.
Totally agree!
Such sad songs though
@@truthhunterhawk3932No, not all of them
@@truthhunterhawk3932 this one is, som others are too. But for instance Dancing Queen isn't. You have all kind of music made and performed by Abba.
Just choose. They even have made one knew recently.
I grew up listening to Abba. My mom was a huge fan in the 70’s and 80’s when she was in her teens/20’s. Now I’m a mom and my daughter loves Abba. Their timeless magic connects the generations ❤
I'm a 100% Metalhead and I don't know what brings this in my YT List.... but hell ABBA is one of the greatest band ever. They are phenomenal.
Bjorn wrote this song during their divorce, for his wife to sing. It was Real Life. Call Agneta a True Professional. Thanks for your reaction.
As far i know you are not exactly right about it. While it can be , that it was during their divorce, the song came to him not because of that. I heard from Björn himself: that he was on a party... and he was also a bit drunk late night, and walked home alone on the streets, and within that 30 minutes of walking, this melody came into his head, and back at home he wrote it down (not the notes himself, because none of the Abba-members could read notes). But the chords etc he wrote down.
The lyrics came much much later. And the first lyrics were even happy, as far i know. It was only later that they changed it to sad lyrics. There is also a fresh interview with Benny and Björn, were both say that the melody comes always first...and later on, they fill it with lyrics. They also say: the lyrics aren't so important. Thats why Abba got mostly critized back in the days for meaningless lyrics (like ''honey honey''... or ''ring ring'' ... or ''money money money'' (...''always funny...in a richmans world'' ) ) ... It was for that critics that they began to make more meaningful lyrics to the songs (like ''the winner takes it all'' ) ... But still: the song ''the winner takes it all'' was with happy lyrics first... and later on with sad lyrics - turned out, the sad lyrics fit much better to the song.
In general Abba had mostly happy , or even goofy songs (like ''when i kissed the teacher'' ) . I think they just want to make songs which lifts the mood of people... and are good to dance to it... thats also a reason why the ''lyrics'' didnt have to be deep.
Anyway .. because of the sadness of the lyrics most people think, that it was because of the divorce. Björn often said in interviews that it was not the case. Because he already broke up with Agnetha 2 years earlier (so the relationship was at an end already). Also it was much more hurtful to Agnetha, than to Björn.. Björn was in 1980 already happy with another women (who he married 1981). So i hope you see: the song has nothing to do with 'Björns sad feelings'' ... In fact Björn and Agnetha literally hated eachother between 1978-1981 ... so that they even argued a lot in the music studio - they literally yelled to eachother in those times in the music studio etc..
Hope you now can better see, how this song didnt had anything to do with ''Agnetha finding another guy'' ... she was even pregnant end of 1977 (her son was born right in december 1977 ... she had no reasons to cheat on Björn, or divorce him.. they were a family in 1978 ) ...
So really : the song wasnt written because of sad feelings of Björn. Björn in fact was very happy in love with his new girlfriend in 1980 - when he wrote this ''sad song'' ... Yes, the lyrics came from Björn, and yes, he said, he was inspired from his divorce for the lyrics - but thats it - he said often clearly : the song has nothing to do with his situation with Agnetha, back than.
@@PygmalionFaciebat sorry, you have it mixed up.
It was about the divorce, and it took a whiskey to write it down.
You can still be sad about a divorce and still get into a new relationship.
And yes, you can still divorce without hate each other. Esp when you have children together.
At least in Sweden at that time. Not say there was divorces that the couple hate each other, but not all was or is that.
Well, be it fiction or real, ABBA understood showbusiness and put in enormous efforts to sell their products (pop songs) The more the theme of a song resonates with the experiences of the listening audience, the better the song does on the top selling music charts. Commercial music is akin to acting, actors don't need to have had a first hand personal experiences of the characters in the scripts that they interpret.
The Winner Takes it All, most people don't understand is about being jealous of the new woman who has replaced her (the narrator ) in her matrimonial home. The new woman who is now in her ex life is the winner and the singer or the narrator is the loser.
Ja der Song war bei einem Glas Wisky in 1.Std fertig (Aussage stammt von Björn Ulvaeus ) u.Agnetha hat er gefragt ob Sie es singen könnte.......Respekt für die Leistung von beiden......Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland
@@PygmalionFaciebat Agnetha was the only member able to read and write music AND also play the accordion AND piano
Love this girl...Talk about feeling it. Those of us with experience of love and heartbreak hear this song just like she is hearing it...
Masterpiece no other word
I am so grateful that I was raised on this music.
An emotional roller coaster!
ABBA is EPIC, prestine, wonderful, clean, absolutely Godlike!
The magic of ABBA. Better be careful it's highly contagious. Thanks
ABBA... one of my all time favorite bands. She has a angelic voice.
Мороз по коже от голоса Агнеты. Она прекрасна, богиня!
This is a very powerful and sad song because the members were married to one another and had painful divorces. Yet stood beside one another and sang about their feelings in public. One hell of a group.
One of the best songs of the best pop band in history
America really missed out on how great their songs were when they were around and performing . Now everybody looks back and appreciates their songs .
She’s from Nigeria
@@DeannaSt I think that you don't need to tell that. Everyone can hear she is not speaking the "American dialekt" :)
The song is about the blonde singer and the guitar player….Agnetha and Bjorn, who were married.
At these time They was divorced
mpressive reaction from this young woman. It seems she is in sync with the lyrics and the emotions and has experienced that herself. Very nice to look at her face!
She was married with one of the other bandmembers called Björn. The song is about their divorce. They still performed together after the divorce
I'm from Europe, and I grew up with Abba. I was 14 when they won the Europian song festival, and every time they had a new album out - that was all we talked about for weeks. And for me - this is their best. Beautiful, the way Agnetha voice is here, the lyrics about growing apart, the melody. It still gives me the chills.
I feel like this about almost each of their songs the moment I'm listening to it!
First Album I ever bought Abba Arrival.£ 3.95 Woolworths.
@@harryflashman3141 was my first album also. For 4,95 gulden at the V&d in the Netherlands.
This takes me way back to my youth, in some way, painful memories.
You can almost feel the pain in the lyrics .. the hurt and fact that they now work together and must accept that they have new people in their lives... I think it made them an even greater pop band that hurt and sadness ... must have been tough on them all but somehow they came through it and continued to entertain the world. ... ABBA are a class act simple as that they had it all.
How many years after the divorce did ABBA continue?
@@Vikingshop I think they continued for 4 years after Björn and Agnetha split up
@@johanbogg9158 - thank you 🙏
and no matter how many people cover the song - no one delivers it with that same pain and angst as Agnetha does.
A sensational group of writer, singers, performers, storytellers, musicians and genuine stars. Growing up watching these guys, from their win in the 'Eurovision Song Contest' until now. I feel very blessed. Looking back now, they are as relevant and enjoyable as ever. One of the best ever groups of any genre. And that singing....awesome. Thank u for your wonderful reaction. Lovely to see u feel this song as I have. Those lyrics and how they are sung is so powerful. Gr8 honest review. Thankyou. 💕💕
Being born when dinosaurs ruled earth can have a few benefits 🤪🦕
The greatest POP group of all time [ OVER 400,000,000 records sold ] along with the finest female singer in the world ,AGNETHA FALSKOG .with a Pitch Perfect, perfect pitch. And a amazing B2 - F7 range. on several songs her high range is not picked up by arena sound systems.
Next one it's gotta be KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU.But the Official video plz.It's important and iconic.
Angelic voice… and before autotune… ❤
Abba is so fantastic, so many hits, greetings from abba country Sweden
Poor girl. She wasn't expecting this tornado of emotions that hit her out of the blue. ABBA is something else really
I AM 48 and i love ABBA since i was still a Boy and your tears Also make the tears well up in my eyes ...so emotional ...beautifully... i AM Brazilian and i can assure almost 200 million people are in love with ABBA...and ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks a million for emotional vídeo!
ABBA was the only band my grandparents, parents and we all loved.
My elderly dad loved them. He had a whole load of their albums in the 90s.
The lyrics are very emotionally intelligent or eventually genial , the voice is absolutely flawless , the melody is perfectly suited to the message. Simple and yet so complex... perfection, one of the best songs of all times.
As a youngster I never appreciate ABBA, now one of the best groups ever, you learn
It’s a very sad song.
I’m impressed at your reaction; first time I’ve seen this; I’ve cried too upon hearing this song because we all have been there before.
Thanks so much.
There is a reason why ABBA were the first act to have an album spend over 1000 weeks in the UK top 100 album charts
Their melodies are so intoxicating. Pop music at its finest. Seeing your emotional reaction was really powerful
Only love clarifies your existense. Awesome and beautiful reaction.
I stayed in a hotel owned by one of the Abba members. Each room had an Abba CD. Abba was the background music to my teenage years. Special.
The emotional potency of this song is why it's alive today, after decades.. Something today's "music" will never achieve..
This is one of my Favorit Songs . Its so simple but so touching. I Love her voice
It's simple only in the melody
the lyrics is strong, the lead voice is exceptional, the background chorus is great
@@eduardooscar309 well i spoke about the melody is simple not the lyrics. ABBA is well known For not complicated Melodies. Thats why they are so huge .i didnt said anything negativ
@@feridedogan7653
I read your comment well
It is true that you did not say anything negative about ABBA
And it's also true that your word 'simple' didn't clarify that it was just about the melody (hence the reason for my answer)
Likewise, if you know ABBA songs well, they are not characterized by simple melodies (like this one), they have many rhythm changes and contrasts.
eg "The name of the game"
Which, whether they are simple melodies or with great changes, no characteristic is exclusive to make great and timeless songs as ABBA has achieved in its iconic history.
@@eduardooscar309 well the Word simple is maybe Bad in America. Simple means for me something Good. I Like simple things. And i am not the only Person who said ABBA is known For their simple akkords and compositions. Pop music should be simple For people to sing it in the concerts . You try to Make the Word simple Bad. I Love simple things because they are not fake and not forced. And i think you clearly Dont Know much about compositions . I said nothing wrong Bad or disrespectful. It was a fact
@@feridedogan7653
I read your first comment
and now the second
and I see that you have not read mine
I don't criticize that a melody is simple, and I repeated it at the end, when I said that the song can be simple or with rhythm changes, and still be great.
ej Bee Gees have their first big hit with "Massachusetts", which has a simple, linear melody with no variations
and it's a wonderful song
It is in my Top 5 of them
and coming back to this
The winner takes it all
has a simple melody
and it's also in my ABBA Top5. along with songs with more complex melodies such as
The name of the game
simplicity and complexity, done well, are admirable
You are right: I don't know about music or melodies or compositions, I speak because of what it generates in my soul and heart when listening to them
surely you know more about music than me
Cheers
Her voice is incredible especially in those upper scales !
Fell I love with Agnetha in 1974 in England
Watched ABBA in Vancouver in 81 I think
Best concert I have ever watched
Her life was somewhat tragic but somehow survived
Still in love with her
All the albums wore out
Great songs great music
all four memebers were going through divorces at the time the song was written, such a sad song with an upbeat tempo , Abba were such a good group , 40 years later this powerful song is still touching people around the world
Abba cracked the code for perfect pop songs. They produced so many fantastic songs. They just knew how to do it- again and again and again. My favourite songs are ‚I‘ve been waiting for you‘, ‚Hole in your soul‘ and ‚under attack‘! Indeed, thank you for the music! You are truly genius masterminds!
A very big Fan from Austria❤️
Love Hole in your soul. Bang a Boomerang is still one of my favorites that many people don't even know exists. Also the original long version of Eagle.
Anna have great songs and producing.
Abba
This isn't an amazing song is a DREAM!!!!!!!
From Denmark,
I'm a big fan of ABBA
ABBA won the international Melodi Grand Prix we have in 1974 Europe with No. WATERLOO, they became famous
Bjørn & Agneta divorced in 1979, so maybe that's what she's singing about.
Hi :) As i am from Sweden i grow up with ABBA songs:) The song is some from their breakup Agnetha and Björn wich did indeed wrote the song. I can also say that this is actually Agnetas own favorit of all their songs:) Agneta and Björn has a dauther together and are good friends but didnt divorce because of cheating, Agnetha was a very shy women and she had it hard 2 be on tour so much of them stopp making tours was when Benny and Anne-Frida and Benny also got a divorce to much 4 them all, Frida did actually end up and married a real prince actually sadly he died. She also did a solo song wich is called there is something goving on wich i liked a lot a heavy pop with much base. Agnetha has done solo songs 2 but it took a longer time 4 her . There was a man a fan that broke into her home wiich made her more withdrawn 4 a long time. Björn did marry a women named Lena i think and Benny a woman named Mona and they had a son Peter wich also became a artist, Today Benny has a band called BAO Benny Anderssons orkester as its written in Swedish. Another very emotionel song that they do wich i love is named Slipping trou my fingers check that out and one that is a rock pop song i think is a song that hasnt been getting the full attention as it should thats the song Why did it have to be me:) You have a cold chest of songs and u will never forget them. ABBA is Sweden as much as Volvo and Ikea only Roxette has been as high up as ABBA and people loved them because they were and are extremly humble people very simple and easy going. And Björn and Benny has done musicals thats been played in London many years called Chess and others to. They are extremly good musicians and Agnetha and Anne-Frid their voices was a great match:) Just a little info. Hope u are doing well i am from a city outside of Gothenburg called Kungsbacka or in English Kingshill:) take care hugs and Gby Rika.
I grew up with Abba - they were my absolute favorites. Especially Agnetha - As a fan, I saw her and Björn split up and then this song. I was devastated at the time. I've always wondered how did Agnetha manage to sing this song that Björn composed in his pain after the breakup. Abba are and will remain unattainable and are incomparable. It was very moving to see a young woman like you being so moved by this song.
Yes, I remember the fanbooks back in the day where friends filled in information on the various pages. The other girls all seemed to like Agnetha the most, so I decided I would go for Frida. Always in favour of the underdog. But then Agnetha turned out to be a quite selfless person. After all, she loved recording, but did not enjoy the overseas concerts and the attention. She was a blonde woman with blue eyes, but not a narcissist. And in Sweden, she hadn't caused much of a stir with her appearance, because her country is full of blondes with blue eyes anyway.
ABBA were genius! Taking their real life drama and playing it out in song for all of us to here.
Так сильно, что эмоции переполняют. Так искренне, что веришь. Так по человечески правильно, что жалеешь о тех изменениях, которые происходят в общении людей.
This song and "Knowing me, knowing you" always break me. No matter how many times I hear them. Anybody that went through a heartbreak feels these songs in their fibers, I am sure of it.
The final divorce papers were delivered before she went to the studio
This is pure emotion
When she sings in concert it's just so so
ABBA’s vocals are the cleanest in the business. Nobody else comes close.
I was just watching another of your reactions and I said to myself I hope they react to ABBA.
Wow.
ABBA was my moms fav, so we grew up listening to them in the 80s we had a record player, I still love and listen to them, remind me of her.
Agnetha always knew how to act a song. Even though this one wasn't about anyone she made it personal.
It was personal for her. She had just broke up with her husbond, who is also in ABBA and wrote the song.
You can also call them F-ABBA.It's a synonim to their fabulous music legacy.
They were such a hit that they made the musical films Mamamia and Mamamia herewe go again just fun films with an all star cast having fun!
The ABBA song that makes me cry every time is Chiquitita..omg it's heartbreakingly beautiful. The message of picking oneself up despite the pain and continuing. But then also they did it in Spanish and they gave the rights to the song to Unicef. It is heartwrenching when put into that context of politics and poverty.
DEEP Inside abba touched our hearts ❤
one of the best songs ever recorded, always hits straight in the feels.
One of the greatest songs ever written, sung by an amazing singer with a voice the Gods would be proud off
Congratulations Starr ABBA got you. Now you may dive into the journey most of us have lived. The 70's spawned unbelievable amount of music enjoy your trip to music wonderland.
The winner takes it all. It's like singing our lives. A song that I can sympathize with.
Keep going on your ABBA adventure. They are the best Band ever
Hi :-) I'm a 61 year old man in the UK. I've never really been a fan of Abba, but after watching you and listening along 'with' you, I have shed any musical biases I may have had and you let me appreciate the music/lyrics afresh. Thank you. (Oh and the same applies for your BeeGees video, I never thought I would have a lump in my throat listenig to them :-) )
Way before autotune just pure talent. 40 years later this song still knock me out!
From the very First time that I ever heard ABBA in 1977 (more than 45 years ago) until this very day, they have been my most favorite musical group of ALL time. Their music is entirely original compositions written by Benny and Bjorn. The girls voices have the perfect blend with the guys vocals. I get goose bumps even today just listening to an ABBA piece especially if they are the performers. Your initial experience watching the video and listening to them will NOW be with You FOREVER. Enjoy. Greetings from Ontario, Canada.
Not to forget that not only did the girls voices have a perfect blend with the guys.....: The girls two voices together witout the guys were/still are a very special harmony. Growing up in Scandinavia they, at that time, didn't appeal much to me. Not exotic enough? Not fond of popmusic perhaps. I don't know. I was more blown off my feet by Kate Bush and other extraordinary personalities. But as I started playing the piano, the compositions of ABBAs songs really struck me as this was popmusic really taken to a higher level.
ABBA is acronim with initials of Their first names, two swedish couples in the Swedish quartet:
A- Agnetha (blonde singer) &
B- Björn (guitarist songwriter)
B- Benny (pianist songwriter) &
A- Anni Frida (brunette singer)
both couples separated before the breakup of ABBA in 1982
"The winner takes it all" (1980)
is one of the Best Songs by ABBA
and the Most sad and emotional too
The best lyrics (written by the guitarist Björn)
and the greatest performing with the amazing Interpretation of the lead singer (the blonde Agnetha, his ex wife)
The lyrics is a fiction, it is not about Their real life, although it is obviously influenced by Their own experiences and the realization of the legal divorce in the middle of 1980, even though They were no longer a couple or lived together more than a year and half ago, at the end of 1978
ABBA have more than 20 worldwide hits between 1972/1982, included:
Waterloo
Fernando
Dancing Queen
Take a chance on me
Chiquitita
All these songs are in your album recopilation GOLD (1992) that a year and half ago have more than 1.000 weeks at Top 100 in UK Official Charts (first group singer or artist to do it)
and after 35 years all ABBA members return to studio in 2017 and recording initialy two new songs and finally a full new album Voyage released in last November 2021 that is a worldwide success
ABBA begin your worlwide fame when They won the classic Eurovision Song Contest at Brighton UK in April 1974 with their iconic song "Waterloo"
that's my suggestion to next reaction:
"Waterloo" by ABBA at Eurovisión 1974
Excuse me, sorry for nit-picking. But Anni-Frid is her name (without an A at the end), and her nickname abroad (Not in Sweden) is Frida with an A at the end. :)
@@cookies6455
Yes ,I know it
It was a type mistake
I remember that eurovison contest, I feel honoured to have lived at that time, and to still be here for their Virtual/Avatar concert this yea...whatever else happens in this god forsaken world I will always have this
@@dtulip1 You are old hehe, as me ;) Nahh 55 is the new 35 ;)
@@cookies6455 A little more nit picking then... Anni-Frid is nicknamed Frida also in Sweden. Greetings from Sweden
ABBA was "the Beatles" of the 1970s. They took the world by storm.
I feel sorry for all people who were born after the ABBA era had ended; they missed a lot of good music.
This is a beautiful reaction to ABBA's masterpiece, thank you very much for that.
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ABBA member Bjorn Ulvaeus wrote this after separating from wife and fellow band member, Agnetha Fältskog. It's about a divorce where one person doesn't want to separate and clings desperately to the marriage. It put Agnetha in the strange spot of being asked to sing a breakup song written by her ex-husband. Ulvaeus didn't intend it this way. He explained: "I sang a demo of it myself which a lot of people liked and said, you have to sing that. But I saw the sensible thing of course, it had to go to Agnetha. I remember coming to the studio with it and everyone said, Oh this is great, wonderful It was strange hearing her singing it. It was more like an actress doing something when she sang it, but deeply moving. Afterwards there were a few tears as well."
Bjorn has said that while he usually didn't use drugs or alcohol while writing, he had a bottle of brandy next to him while writing the lyrics for this song. It was very personal to him. He told The London Times March 26, 2010: "Usually it's not a good idea to write when you're drunk, but it all came out on that one. By the time I wrote 'The gods may throw their dice' the bottle was empty."
Ulvaeus claimed that 90% of this song is fiction, which is why he didn't feel too bad about having his ex-wife sing it. Said Ulvaeus: "I had this image of a man walking through an empty house with all the furniture removed for the last time as the symbol of divorce and just describing what I see."
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Like Fleetwood Mac's "Go Your Own Way," this evokes some very Behind The Music moments as the male band member wrote deeply personal lyrics about a female bandmate. At least Stevie Nicks didn't have to sing lead on Lindsey Buckingham's lyrics like Agnetha did with Bjorn's.
For many people this song with its heartbroken lyrics, swelling crescendos and sudden lulls is the definitive Abba single. Benny Andersson explained to The Sunday Times June 21, 2009 how the catch in the throat music came to be written: "It's the simplest song," he said. "It has two phrases - that's it. And they just go round and round. Now it also has, around those two phrases, this counterpoint thing going on" - Andersson then played the descending theme that opens the song, runs beneath the chorus and, modulated, responds to the verse's vocal melody - "and without a doubt, without that, it would not have been a song. Music is not only melody; music is everything you hear, everything you put together. But without the core of a strong and preferably original melody, it doesn't matter what you dress it with, it has nothing to lean on." Andersson went on to say that for a long time, there were only the two phrases, the latter (the chorus) with each line following immediately after the one before. "And then one day," he went on to say as he played the song again, "we were out in the country, and I suddenly played the chorus like this, pausing each time for the phrase to gather itself, and all of a sudden it was a song.
Despite the song's portrayal of the breakdown of her marriage, Faltskog calls this "her biggest favorite" from ABBA's back catalogue. "It's a shame we never got to play it live," she told the BBC.
Faltskog told The Mail on Sunday in May 2013 this is her favorite ABBA song: "Björn wrote it about us after the breakdown of our marriage. The fact that he wrote it exactly when we divorced is touching really," she explained. "It was fantastic to do that song because I could put in such feeling. I didn't mind sharing it with the public. It didn't feel wrong. There is so much in that song. It was a mixture of what I felt and what Björn felt, but also what Benny and Frida went through."
Meryl Streep recorded this song in just one take for the ABBA-themed jukebox musical movie, Mamma Mia! Ulvaeus told The Telegraph: "Meryl Streep is a goddess. And at first we couldn't believe that she wanted to do it. I was completely taken by surprise when I saw her performance in the movie. To hear her delivering the songs with all the emotion we put in the lyrics is more than we could have dreamed of."
The Winner Takes It All is also the title to a 1999 documentary about the band.
Australian pop singers Kylie Minogue and Dannii Minogue record this with the BBC orchestra in 2008 for the UK comedy series Beautiful People.
Matthew Morrison and Jane Lynch performed this on the series finale of Glee in 2015.
Ulvaeus and Andersson started writing "The Winner Takes It All" in the summer of 1979 in a cottage Ulvaeus owned on the island of Viggsö outside of Stockholm. They ditched their first attempt, as it was too stiff, and worked on other songs. Four days later, they returned to "The Winner Takes It All."
"All of a sudden, two things stuck together, Ulvaeus recalled to Music Business Worldwide. "The first bit was something that was written before and then 'da da da da da da' was something else. By putting these two together, we had a whole song and we were so deliriously happy with it all night long."
Ulvaeus recorded a demo using nonsense French words and took the recording home to write the lyrics. "I'm much faster now, but it used to take me a while and this one came flowing in just one evening across a couple of hours," he said. "I used to write down the lyrics by hand very neatly on sheets of paper and then I'd make copies when I got to the studio in the morning. So I remember this morning distinctly when we gathered in the control room and Michael B Tretow, who was our sound engineer, played the backing track, which we had recorded already. We gathered and I gave everyone a sheet of the lyrics, Agnetha sang and it was magic."
She didn’t know that this was written as they were splitting up! Bless her! How she managed to sing this I don’t know! Wow!❤️
I know well this song, because my father really like ABBA. This song gives me chills
I was never an ABBA fan- having said that, they were the best at what they did. Hands down.
A part of what I think makes ABBA so special was that they wrote about the truth, often not so pleasant truth about relationships. They were two married couples before they became world famous, and in all that success their relationships broke down and they divorced. They wrote and sung about that reality - and it is why their music and lyrics are as relevant to today as ever, and why they touched people all around the world. Supergroup indeed.
What a voice (Annafrid was just as good) what a song, what a group!!!
Annafrid. Was the best support singer of the seventies. She was backing the voice , the face and the figure of 70 s popular music. The no 1. AF
The voice of Agnetta is so powerful, she was one of the greatest singers of her time.
This song is the fact of what I'm saying is true.
I know every woman's first love is never forgotten, so sad to see that most can't ever let it go.
Actually, this was their story... and many of others, so the message is universal.🙎
Beautiful reaction! One could see the emotional impact on your face during the reaction. Reactions like this allow us to see a beautiful performance again for the first time through your eyes.
ABBA had the power of story telling , this is a masterpiece by ABBA but it´s to me her song .. Noone can sing this song like Agneta did ..
you were feeling it why we love ABBA no group sings as heartfelt as ABBA glad u see that thank u
That song strikes a chord on a deep level.
The professionalism is amazing in this song considering this song is so personal to the group and what it's about.
ABBA lyrics make me sad and want to cry, but the nusic makes me happy and want to dance.
The unique combination that nade them brilliant
Sweden's number one export for many years...sending love to the whole world!
The song was made by the guitarist when he divorced the singer. It is the utmost professionalism of the singer (Agneta Fällskog) that she wanted to sing it at all especially because children were involved. ABBA's sound quality was always the best. They had their own studio in Stockholm which was the most modern in the world at the time.
No no,it was made by both Benny and Björn Benny wrote the music and Björn wrote the lyrics