Newfoundlander here and we had teen clubs in the 70's. Just places to hang out and associate and have fun. They would shut it down at 10 pm. We loved it. Ping pong, hikes, dances and square ball! Loved it and Abba was adored by us all. Just saying.
So True,though it' seems that the guy here don't really get it,seems they are so out of his waters,so he better leaves the Swedes to us who do feel them.And being in the dance-club at 17,16,14 back then was reaaally such innocent and carefree fun,even by just eating cinammon buiscuits and drinking lemonade..Oh well....
Oh come on, I am 65 we danced and absolutely enjoyed ourselves - ABBA were just part of the dance scene, Rod Stewart Maggie May, so many songs - it’s Europe we had the time of our lives!!!!🥰♥️🥰
I always thought the Dancing Queen just wants to dance. I never thought she was looking for anything else but someone to dance with. When her dance partner wants more, she moves on to another dance partner. Because she just wants to dance. She's not playing. She's sitting limits.
Right. Why we let the unsavory elements in society dictate whether people can just dance and enjoy life is sad. Unfortunately there are predators. This is a theme song for enjoying dancing and great music and being young. Heaven forbid that is an acceptable idea. Just being sarcastic. Dance, queens and kings.
ABBA wrote all their songs, they were both married couples and the initials of their first names are ABBA. There's lots of dance parties and they aren't all drinking and doing anything wrong. Things were a lot more innocent back then, you really need to just listen to the music and dance and have fun and try to let your mind think the worst. Times have changed a lot since the 70's! ABBA is from Sweden and was Famous and Popular around the World! Check out ABBA - SOS - Waterloo - Mama Mia (Also movie made with all ABBA songs) - Knowing Me Knowing Youo - Take a Chance on Me - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Fernando - Angel Eyes - Chiquitita - Lay all your Love on me -
Dude, it was the 70's period...anything goes! I'm 66 and still massively in love with this song. I loved to dance and discoed 3 nights a week minimum. This song was everywhere and in every disco at the time. A girl that just loves to dance, that's all.
in most of USA in the 60s (Free Love & Sax ual Revolution) 14,15,16 was normed as Young Adults. You could go to Vietnam at 16 w/ paren waiver to join military (especially if you had ex-military parent- several HS Jrs & Srs at my school joined up). Europe has ALWAYS considered 14-15 yr old girls to be of age.
There's one element of the song that a lot of people miss. The 17-year-old girl who just wants to dance is making her own decisions. When her dance partner wants more from her, she is proactive and moves on. She still wants to have fun, though, so she looks for another dance partner. There's nothing wrong with girls having harmless fun! If there's a guy who gets the wrong idea, there's nothing wrong with the girl turning him down and continuing to have fun.
ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member's first name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
Here in Europe ABBA is the childhood's soundtrack to some millions.Abba is still really big deal here.And Btw 2 days ago they all 4 got honoured by the King and Queen of Sweden in a special ceremony that took place in the Royal Palace. All four were there and it was an emotional moment for many people to watch this.
Back in the 80s, maybe 90s teenage British Asians would go to 'Daytimers'. Night clubs would be booked for alcohol free, daytime 'clubbing', dancing mostly to 'bhangra', parents mostly didn't know anything about it. I think attended by teenagers from all communities; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. There's a bit in the film 'Blinded by the Light' where the main character accompanies his sister to one.
We had a dance club and bar in San Francisco called The Peppermint Tree where young teens could come into the club to dance, you had to have a stamp on your hand to drink alcohol.
Speaking as a 65 year old woman, who WAS a 17 year old girl in 1976, I can categorically say you have no idea what you're talking about. First, minors could go into any establishment that sold food. My brother was a professional drummer from the time he was 14 and was 11. He was always accompanied to his gigs by one of both of our parents, and I often went as well. But even before that there were big dancehalls around that we went to with our parents from the time we were younger. Kids weren't excluded, and there were always others there too. It was also good when my brother was 18 and could be considered my guardian, so I went with him and his wife. As for the song itself, it's a power ballad about a young woman coming into and testing out the power of her sexuality. Whatever dance partners she chooses, the dance is all he's getting from her. When she senses he's getting too intense, she switches partners. Every young woman goes through this phase, and she's there with older sibs or friends or cousins, so she's in a safe environment. If she came in with a fake ID, and that wasn't as strict in those days, there's no way she went alone. Still a safe environment. Freud used the term libido, as not just sexually, but as sexual life force.You sneaking into the X rated movies was a male variation of the same internalization of the same thing. It's also a trait of our species that any woman can choose to engage in sex with virtually any man, any time she wants to. But because the consequences for women, conception, pregnancy and child birth are potentially going to drain her of resources, we try to find the best genes available. The females of many species do this. For humans, women are searching for genes that are as different from her own as she can, usually, but not always, within her own ethnic group. Dancing close to a man in an environment where both of them are probably lightly or heavily perspiring is an opportunity for the smelling mammalian part of our brains, the limbic system, to seek out what it needs. Our neocortex regulates over all behavior, but the older parts of our brains are still carrying out their functions. And, like it or not Dad your little girls are going to mature into sexual adults, like every other human being. And they'll be testing out their own power and their own breaks. Trying to do that for them has never worked, especially if they sense you're doing it from a place of fear. So your best bet is to arm them with education on the subject. I always made sure that contraception and sex were paired in the minds of my kids, and they never acted recklessly. That doesn't mean no rules or discipline. And we made it clear that a far worse decision, getting in a car with a drunk driver, would get them in far more trouble from us, than getting a little high. So calling us for a ride home was the responsible thing to do. Once again, testing their own breaks. If in a place where they didn't like the vibe, they knew we had their backs.
Right, it was mid-80s before the drinking age completed the graduated change from 18 to 21 and the signs started going up on doors that said you had to be 21 or older to enter the premises. Before then parents actually had control over what their children were allowed to do and not and didn't rely on the government to babysit for them.
@@Renkk17 so this guy lives in colorado, not in Canada or Europe and is not old enough to remember when the drinking age in the United States was 18. I am not going to speak to what happens in other countries because I don't live there and can't say. But what I can say is what happened in the United States when I was a teenager and the drinking age was 18. And you, being from another country shouldn't be speaking about what happened when I was a teenager in my country and trying to tell me I'm wrong.
@@Renkk17 it's called the mansplaining. Don't actually have to accuse someone of being wrong, just talk down to people in an insinuating manner by explaining something that everyone already knows like your an authority. What exactly and what I said made you feel the need to educate me about other countries? What is it that I said that made you think I didn't know those things already... I think maybe you should have taken your mansplaining to be pee instead because obviously he's the one that doesn't understand this and asked for an explanation, which is why I wrote my comment. And next time you feel the need to mansplain something to someone then you should actually check your information because I went in fact checked you and there are 21 countries who's drinking age is 21. It's always good when you want to have conversational superiority with someone to actually know what you're talking about.
Exactly!! We did too in The Netherlands.... Just enjoying ourselves, dancing and listening to great music. Innocent. But this is typical American purity.
The Beatles “She was just 17, you know what I mean…” was only recorded about decade earlier. New generation of teens will dance to it. Specially your daughters since you will be playing that song in your house.
ABBA was and is huge. They broke up in 83 and didn’t drop another album until 2021 which promptly went to #1 worldwide (#2 in the USA.) your reaction to this song is funny because they have another song, “Does Your Mother Know,” which is about that very thing. ABBA songs to react to: Chiquitita Fernando Waterloo SOS Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! Money Money Money Knowing Me Knowing You Take A Chance on Me The Winner Takes It All When All Is Said And Done Thank You For The Music I Have A Dream Does Your Mother Know Don’t Shut Me Down I Still Have Faith In You Etc…etc…etc!
Good Lord, its been going on that long? And America didn't even try to (unsuccessfully) duplicate it until 2022 (with limited success, let's see if they can pull it together again in 2024)
I’m from N. Ireland and we had disco’s at our local hall from when I was only 13yrs old. You met up with your friends and danced the whole time. No drinking or smoking. Was going to nite clubs from 16yrs old. Again danced the whole time. Didn’t drink or smoke and had a blast. 💥 and Dancing Queen was one if not thee biggest hit around. Happy days ✨🇨🇮
A few days ago, 06/24, Abba received the Royal Order of Vasa from the Swedish royal couple for her extraordinary career. 7:00 In Germany in the 70s there were teen parties on Sunday afternoons in the discotheque where ABBA music was also played.
When this song came out, there were clubs everywhere. Teen clubs as well. Going to a club just to dance and party? I did it routinely at age 16. You live in a completely different time and different background where parents actually wanted to know where you were vs parents who tossed you out the door at 9am and be back at dark.
Sometimes you look at things so darkly. I understand since you’re a dad. This song uplifts so many people though. When the club age was 18 , people could get in at 17. We loved to dance in the seventies. I would go with my girlfriends. Nothing shady went on with us. We watched out for each other.
Europeans. Europeans are in the club at seventeen. And at sixteen ...and if you can cheat the entrance control - at fifteen. Legal age limit for drinking beer and wine in Germany: 16. In theory, you should leave the club at midnight if you are not eighteen yet.
I went at 13 with a group, got my stamp on and nothing happened. Why? Teens are ( or at least were) broke, drinks in a disco/club are expensive so... there was no reason to doubt. Also because we really went there to dance, if we wanted to do something stupid or ahem "round some bases", we'd have taken it to a less public place, where you wouldn't risk running into your uncle and aunt having a date night, or a neighbor who likes to gossip. But we were also raised differently to the kids today. I remember there was this one time when there was a gang fight that broke out because the gf of one dude was spotted at the disco with another dude and the guys gathered up for a knife fight. We recognized the troublemakers, we didn't wait for the scandal to break out, we took our sh*t and left. Would kids today do that? Nope, they'd stay to film it, or stream it on socials, and then pose as victims when they'd get their asses kicked and/or thrown out of there. And they'd probably be intoxicated.
I'm 58. When I was in Germany in '78-'80, aged 12-14, all you had to do to buy beer was ask for it and hand over the DM. I could buy beer and even schnapps at any stand along the way of a Volksmarch and beer at the local schwimbad, carnivals or even the local arcade. To be honest, I really just preferred to get a Spezi.
Dude we had clubs that were for kids under 18. I'm 61 and we were in the real clubs at 18 where I grew up. Great song putting to much dad thought into it. Skating rinks on Friday nights all us younger kids went without parents.
We all were in the club in the 70's. I was clubbing at 13. Clubs back then had teen nights, and we took full advantage. Of course they only sold soft drinks on those nights. Also, ABBA is the 3rd biggest selling group in history.
ABBA is a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
ABBA is an acronym for the band members first names Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Ani-Frid. They are from Sweden. They had 19 wold-wide hits between 1972 and 1982. They are still releasing music / performances today.
We had teen clubs back in the late 1960’s and into early 70’s. Kids could go and hang out. 18 y/o couldn’t get in…they were considered an adult. So at 17 you could be a dancing queen.
I'm from the UK. I started going to clubs at 16. Yes, there was a bar, but we didn't drink alcohol we just went for the dancing. My dad dropped us off at the door and was waiting outside at midnight to pick us up. I am grateful that I had a loving and generous Dad who I miss.Gone now for thirty years
When I was in junior high and high school in the midwest in the 1960s, there were dance nights for the kids at clubs that usually catered to adults. Sometimes there was live music, and sometimes there were only records, but dancing was what was on our minds. ABBA is the most innocent music in the world, and even now I love it. You might have heard of the broadway musical "Mama Mia!" That's the story of this band; the music and lyrics were written by band members Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus. Their entire catalog is worth checking out.
ABBA...classic!! The music inspires dancing in any generation. Bruddah, you looking too much into the words! Take it easy! ABBA broke tour records around the world; matched by Earth, Wind, and Fire, Elton John, etc. How lucky I grew up in the 1970s!! BEST DECADE of music!
Hey in Europe you can be in a club if you are under 17 ...haha! And we are even allowed to drink alcohol at 16 🙂 You have to see it that way: its an empowerment song for young women! Next song: Chiquitita, the best happy-sad song ever! Angelic voices!
Oh, noes. The poor babies will be corrupted! Yeah, I can't overemphasize how stupid and counterproductive the US's babying of teens over the past 30 years has been. What's worse is its started to make its way into adulthood. 17 year olds have fought in wars, yes, even in the US's wars. They've conquered other countries in the past. But Heaven forbid they are in a public place (and hence actually safer) with others of their age and even *gasp* full-on legal ADULTS where they can DANCE and DRINK.
Dont hurt yourself, pops! Its wholesome as hell. Youre 17 back in the day, you cant drink or smoke legally, you cant own or do shit, you just graduated and have all this newfound responsibility and youre still seen as a child in the laws of the law and tour parents and schoo. You're 17, and you can't do anything. Well, then ima dance tonight!!!. The best part of this music video is seeing the kids in the crowd, in their own little bubble, not trying to impress anymore, just dancing, busting down the moves.
In Europe we (can) trust our kids and allow them mistakes from which they learn: In Germany you can go to a club at 16, you just have to leave before midnight. And you even are of legal drinking age for beer and wine. The US rules sound rather odd and destructive to us, forcing nearly adult or fully adult young people into illegality. You're old enough to join the Army and kill people around the world, but not to go dancing? Seriously?
In GER and much of central Europe, many kids still get lessons in ballroom dancing at age 14. In commercial dancing schools/clubs, not at their High School . So going to a dancing club is totally normal.
The drinking age should again be 18 in the U.S. (a legal argument could be made that having it at 21 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment). Excluding alcoholics, EVERYONE I know drank more when they were under 21.
Exactly..and later music ,hate to say but like some rap were vulnerable, the lyrics and videos...parents should have really watching their girls then !
In those times, my community center had a dance night every Saturday night. You had to be 12 to go. They played music sold snacks, pop and candy... We danced and danced. Some of the best times of my life... it was just awesome ❤
I used to go to a disco for under 18s once a week from 13yrs old Just to dance My mum or my friends mum would collect us at 10pm I had all ABBAs records and it was an innocent and fun part of my teens
When the dancing culture hit big during the disco era, there were dancing clubs open to teens for limited weekend daytime time slots. Just teens meeting and dancing to the current hits. Somewhat like the roller rink without skating. The memories of this era during my freshman (9th grade) years are ones I cherish and never forget 🥰
I got in clubs at 17 and I tried to be a Dancing Queen!! At that time in the '70s, you could get in bars in some areas at 18, but you could only be served beer. If you were 21 and older you could have mixed drinks!! The small clubs weren't as strict as they are now!! It was absolutely some of the best times I ever had!! I wasn't a big drinker, so just dancing and hanging with friends was a great time!! I miss those times so much!! ❤❤
17 years olds were not babied in the 70s like they are today. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the drinking age in the US was 18 back then and younger people were allowed in the club but were not allowed to drink. And FINALLY, 17 is the only three syllable teen number.
The older generation as teens had the privilege of going to actual dances where no alcohol was served. The 50s, 60s, 70s. High schools had Friday night dances as well as dance halls just for teens. We did have “The Time of Our Lives “. Sorry you missed it.
Benny Anderson, piano player, Bjorn Ulvaes, guitarist, wrote the music for all the ABBA songs. Stig Anderson was the Manager of Polar Studios in Sweden and helped ABBA get their start. The little kid dancing you mentioned is Bjorn and Agnetha’s( the blonde) daughter. They were married and divorced during ABBAs 10 years at the top. Benny and the red head Anna-Frida was also a couple who also married and divorced. The group remained together for a few years after both divorces. Even singing the songs their exs wrote about their divorces!!!! They were all successful singers in Sweden and were dating before they ever became ABBA.
9:44 - to 11:44 - my biggest laugh in a long time - could not stop - wife had to check on me as to why I was laughing so hard - thanks for the comedic relief.
I’m just another one of these people that are completely stun that you are unaware of who ABBA are… Look forward to watching you react to the videos and music of one of the greatest bands in the world is ever seen
My parents are traditionalist Christians, my mum's Norwegian, we had a pretty sheltered childhood. ABBA were the only contemporary pop music we could listen to. The song is a nostalgic look back at teenage hood, remembering that joy, fun and riddled with Nordic melancholic sadness as adults in one's 30s/40s.
In the 90's I started joining my older relatives on some of their nights out when I was 12. So when I turned 18, I was kinda over it already. This things there were no legal age limit to drinking then. - But for me it was mostly soda and laughing and dancing with my peeps. Danes did, and still do thing differently than the US, but I do admit that I was usually the youngest in the club. But only by a couple of years. And I was also lucky that my relatives where such great teachers and protectors. So when most of my friend stated to go out, I knew enough to keep them out of the worst trouble.
Yes rediculous! I knew someone who had already been around the word by 19 yrs old. In American bars he was not allowed a drink and in some "Bible belt states" was asked to leave the bar !
Up until like 1986, drinking age was 18 in America, and we could go to clubs. Many had clubs we could go to with adults at age 16, but our hand stamps were different color meaning no alcohol.
Get a grip! In Texas, I got my driver's license & bought my 1st car at 14 in the 60's. I had a job after school to pay for everything. We spent a lot of time at the drive-in movies. When you picked up your date, her Dad always answered the door. Time to make a good impression! He would tell you when she had to be home. If you wanted to continue dating her, you got her home on time. AND, you never told him that you were taking his little girl to the drive-in.
When I was a teen in the early 70s we had dances every weekend. Teens only. No alcohol. I'm sure not everyone was completely "innocent" but most of us just wanted to dance & have fun.
Oh for heaven’s sake…this was a different time and era. The group name ABBA (pronounced ah-ba) is the initials of the group members, Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Björn and. Annie-Frid were both born in 1945, Benny in 1946 and Agnetha in 1950. They’re from Sweden and in 1974, they were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. This song was written in 1976, so the writers would have been 30 years old. Back then teen dance clubs were really popular because the disco era was at its peak. Teen clubs didn’t serve alcohol and usually had an earlier closing time than an adult club would. Teens also danced at community centers, at home parties, school events, etc. The Broadway play and later movie Mama Mia! was based on their music, and Mama Mia, Here We Go Again the sequel as well.
German here. Me. Went dancing, drinking etc with 17 (16). legally. They are Swedish. Probably the same. And yes, everything was earlier. My mom has stories from being 14/15. She is over 70 now. live was just wilder then
I'm from the USA, but I went to Germany in 1988 with a high school group and we got to go to all sorts of places and do all sorts of things you'd have to be 18 or even 21 years old to do in the USA.
as a 55 year old who listened to this as a younger woman and knew the lyrics coming up. I died literally spit my coffee on my computer screen I was laughing so hard when you said..."maybe its innocent...lets just have fun..." It was different then not better and yes there were clubs around the world that had allowed children into the club with the parents... Dad instincts dead on BP
I'm in my 60's and and have loved this song since it came out. Back then I had a friend from Finland named Tuula, and she was absolutely a dancing queen. No matter where she went, if there was dancing, soon the people around her would move off in a circle and just watch her. With my two left feet I could never dance, but that was ok, because just watching her was magic! This song will forever remind me of her. I believe she was 17 when we first met at university. They never carded you at campus parties. And yes, we did have some wild ones like in the song! 😅
I'm from Canada and 63. We were going to the clubs when we were 15 or 16...lol! Those were the days! And we all turned out great! Legal age for drinking and going to bars is 18 in Canada. I have relatives in Holland and I went there with my family when I was 16 and my cousins took us to clubs and we danced away!
In Europe, ages of consent were generally younger than here in America. Also, there are many "teen clubs" where there is no alcohol. ABBA's Benny wrote the song.
I lived in Denmark in the late 70s and they were everywhere. We went to the clubs at 16, drank and danced all night. Different times back then. I saw them twice and it was phenomenal. Their talent was exceptional.
Sign me up for your ABBA rabbit hole. Although there are tons of songs I'd do before Chiquitita... like Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, The Winner Takes it All, Super Trouper, Fernando, Take A Chance On Me for starters...
For many of us, it really was very inncent. We really just wanted to dance. One of my best memories, I was 19, my work had a dance for some reason. I guess people were not sure of proticol or something, NO one asked me to dance. So, heck, I think it was Santana that came on and I went out to dance by myself. By the end of the night I was dancing with half a dozen guys, it was all just great fun. Raise your girls to recognize their own inherent worth, and they'll be OK.
She is 17 because, yes, it was different back then. On the maturity scale, yesterday's 17 doesn't even compare to today's 17. I know 16 yr olds today that are perfectly happy having their parents chauffer them wherever they want to go. In the 70's & 80's your drivers license was your ticket to freedom and personal responsibility. In fact, I had a part-time job and a checking account at 17. I'd add that this song is mild compared to a fair amount of the stuff out there today.......right Cardi B?
Yes ,I don't know what happened we were younger and it was ok...BP traveled the world with rap. Do you know how rap ( early gangster type garbage) corrupted the youth? What freaking kind of clubs were young kids going in then and seeing what goings on and hearing what kind of language???
We got in bars and were supposed to drink beer only, but I got mixed drinks and had many taken away, because they knew I was under 21!! Oh, the memories!! 😂😂
Girls back then just growing up & being girls together can invoke a reaction in men with no intention to do so. So to a guy, it is a tease. Then, forcfome goals, it's intentional. Have 4 sisters...2 innocent and 2 snakes... Hormones man
♥ ABBA! So many songs to request: SOS, Vouez Vous, Winner Takes It All, Money Money Money, Chiquitita, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Take A Chance On Me & Summer Nite City
We went to clubs 15 ... 16 ... 17 years old in the UK... back in the 70s and 80s and 90s as long as you could get in ... the legal age was 18 ... but if you looked old enough you got in .. I got into a club for the first time at 16 ... 1984 ... solihull... west Midlands.. UK 🇬🇧
Sometimes a dance is just a dance. Dance clubs for teens were innocent.
💯💯👍👍
❤️100% true.
Newfoundlander here and we had teen clubs in the 70's. Just places to hang out and associate and have fun. They would shut it down at 10 pm. We loved it. Ping pong, hikes, dances and square ball! Loved it and Abba was adored by us all. Just saying.
@@candytoo3729 ...'Abba was adored by us all"...Absolutetly.
Who's in the club at 17?
?????? EVERYBODY IN A FREE COUNTRY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gen X checking in
Hes from the USA, doesn't know what it's like to live in a free country 🤣
True…and innocently!
If you live overseas you could
abba was much bigger and more successful than many people realize. they are one of the best selling groups of all time. look them up!
So True,though it' seems that the guy here don't really get it,seems they are so out of his waters,so he better leaves the Swedes to us who do feel them.And being in the dance-club at 17,16,14 back then was reaaally such innocent and carefree fun,even by just eating cinammon buiscuits and drinking lemonade..Oh well....
It's just about dancing, you don't have to make it dirty. Saw them in concert back in the day, it was sweetness personified.
Oh come on, I am 65 we danced and absolutely enjoyed ourselves - ABBA were just part of the dance scene, Rod Stewart Maggie May, so many songs - it’s Europe we had the time of our lives!!!!🥰♥️🥰
yeah, but he's comparing it to nowadays and the kids from now, wouldn't know what to do in a disco/club without booze or some sexual situation.
@@m0t0b33 Plenty of sex back then. But in Europe we don't go hysterical about sex like in America. We sent the uptight Protestants your way
@@m0t0b33 They love Ecstasy now.
I always thought the Dancing Queen just wants to dance. I never thought she was looking for anything else but someone to dance with. When her dance partner wants more, she moves on to another dance partner. Because she just wants to dance. She's not playing. She's sitting limits.
Agree with you that’s what the songs about
Yep, that's how I took it. Just let me dance!
@@julieCA58 Agree.
Right. Why we let the unsavory elements in society dictate whether people can just dance and enjoy life is sad. Unfortunately there are predators. This is a theme song for enjoying dancing and great music and being young. Heaven forbid that is an acceptable idea. Just being sarcastic. Dance, queens and kings.
@@catserver8577 ❤️
ABBA wrote all their songs, they were both married couples and the initials of their first names are ABBA. There's lots of dance parties and they aren't all drinking and doing anything wrong.
Things were a lot more innocent back then, you really need to just listen to the music and dance and have fun and try to let your mind think the worst. Times have changed a lot since the 70's!
ABBA is from Sweden and was Famous and Popular around the World!
Check out ABBA - SOS - Waterloo - Mama Mia (Also movie made with all ABBA songs) - Knowing Me Knowing Youo - Take a Chance on Me - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Fernando - Angel Eyes - Chiquitita - Lay all your Love on me -
Dude, it was the 70's period...anything goes! I'm 66 and still massively in love with this song. I loved to dance and discoed 3 nights a week minimum. This song was everywhere and in every disco at the time. A girl that just loves to dance, that's all.
Dude, I went dancing in the 60s!!!
Remember, the legal age for a club was 18 in the US at this time. Younger could get in in Europe. Don't judge yesterday by today's standards.
All ages shows were allowed in bars around me at that time especially if there were live performers.
or Europe by American ones!😂
I wish more people would not judge yesterday by today's standards. Can't we just move forward? I salute you.
They had some clubs without alcohol for teenagers at that time in California.
@@bobr5274had clubs for teenagers here in Virginia at one time as well. Not sure any still exists nowadays.
Back in the 70's and early 80's, the legal drinking age was 18. We had no problems getting Into a club at 17 back then.
👍simple times, clean fun!
Truth
16 up until 10 years ago over here, I went to the club every weekend at 16.
Man the good ol' days.
in most of USA in the 60s (Free Love & Sax ual Revolution) 14,15,16 was normed as Young Adults. You could go to Vietnam at 16 w/ paren waiver to join military (especially if you had ex-military parent- several HS Jrs & Srs at my school joined up). Europe has ALWAYS considered 14-15 yr old girls to be of age.
No it wasn't, it was 21
There's one element of the song that a lot of people miss. The 17-year-old girl who just wants to dance is making her own decisions. When her dance partner wants more from her, she is proactive and moves on. She still wants to have fun, though, so she looks for another dance partner. There's nothing wrong with girls having harmless fun! If there's a guy who gets the wrong idea, there's nothing wrong with the girl turning him down and continuing to have fun.
You never heard of ABBA ? Probebly top 3 biggest band ever. OMG.
ABBA is an acronym formed from the first letters of each group member's first name: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
Biggest in Europe, not as big here. It took awhile to US to catch on..
It's just a coincidence the ABBA acronym is also Hebrew and Aramaic for Dad/Daddy. You pronounced it correctly for both meanings.
Here in Europe ABBA is the childhood's soundtrack to some millions.Abba is still really big deal here.And Btw 2 days ago they all 4 got honoured by the King and Queen of Sweden in a special ceremony that took place in the Royal Palace. All four were there and it was an emotional moment for many people to watch this.
They still sold an amazing amount of records in the USA, 8,000,000 singles and 22,000,000 in album sales!
Bjorn and Benny wrote this song. They are the BB in ABBA! Agnetha and Anni are the AA!
There were teenage clubs where they would just dance.
Back in the 80s, maybe 90s teenage British Asians would go to 'Daytimers'. Night clubs would be booked for alcohol free, daytime 'clubbing', dancing mostly to 'bhangra', parents mostly didn't know anything about it. I think attended by teenagers from all communities; Hindu, Muslim, Sikh. There's a bit in the film 'Blinded by the Light' where the main character accompanies his sister to one.
We had a dance club and bar in
San Francisco called The Peppermint Tree where young teens could come into the club to dance, you had to have a stamp on your hand to drink alcohol.
@@bkm2797 Yes, I used to go to a place called Mother's in San Jose that was quite similar. It's a night out as a Junior or senior in High School....
We had one called the Hullabaloo. You guys go way overboard sometimes.
just "dance"
17 in the club in the 80s was probably everywhere in the Western world except the USA
This song is 50 years old. Times were so incredibly different back then. You can't look at this through 2024 eyes.
Speaking as a 65 year old woman, who WAS a 17 year old girl in 1976, I can categorically say you have no idea what you're talking about. First, minors could go into any establishment that sold food. My brother was a professional drummer from the time he was 14 and was 11. He was always accompanied to his gigs by one of both of our parents, and I often went as well. But even before that there were big dancehalls around that we went to with our parents from the time we were younger. Kids weren't excluded, and there were always others there too. It was also good when my brother was 18 and could be considered my guardian, so I went with him and his wife.
As for the song itself, it's a power ballad about a young woman coming into and testing out the power of her sexuality. Whatever dance partners she chooses, the dance is all he's getting from her. When she senses he's getting too intense, she switches partners. Every young woman goes through this phase, and she's there with older sibs or friends or cousins, so she's in a safe environment. If she came in with a fake ID, and that wasn't as strict in those days, there's no way she went alone. Still a safe environment. Freud used the term libido, as not just sexually, but as sexual life force.You sneaking into the X rated movies was a male variation of the same internalization of the same thing. It's also a trait of our species that any woman can choose to engage in sex with virtually any man, any time she wants to. But because the consequences for women, conception, pregnancy and child birth are potentially going to drain her of resources, we try to find the best genes available. The females of many species do this. For humans, women are searching for genes that are as different from her own as she can, usually, but not always, within her own ethnic group. Dancing close to a man in an environment where both of them are probably lightly or heavily perspiring is an opportunity for the smelling mammalian part of our brains, the limbic system, to seek out what it needs. Our neocortex regulates over all behavior, but the older parts of our brains are still carrying out their functions. And, like it or not Dad your little girls are going to mature into sexual adults, like every other human being. And they'll be testing out their own power and their own breaks. Trying to do that for them has never worked, especially if they sense you're doing it from a place of fear. So your best bet is to arm them with education on the subject. I always made sure that contraception and sex were paired in the minds of my kids, and they never acted recklessly. That doesn't mean no rules or discipline. And we made it clear that a far worse decision, getting in a car with a drunk driver, would get them in far more trouble from us, than getting a little high. So calling us for a ride home was the responsible thing to do. Once again, testing their own breaks. If in a place where they didn't like the vibe, they knew we had their backs.
Right, it was mid-80s before the drinking age completed the graduated change from 18 to 21 and the signs started going up on doors that said you had to be 21 or older to enter the premises. Before then parents actually had control over what their children were allowed to do and not and didn't rely on the government to babysit for them.
@@Renkk17 so this guy lives in colorado, not in Canada or Europe and is not old enough to remember when the drinking age in the United States was 18. I am not going to speak to what happens in other countries because I don't live there and can't say. But what I can say is what happened in the United States when I was a teenager and the drinking age was 18. And you, being from another country shouldn't be speaking about what happened when I was a teenager in my country and trying to tell me I'm wrong.
64 male here. I agree with you 100%! Times were different back then!
@decolonizeEverywhere So America rules the World? Is that what your saying?
@@Renkk17 it's called the mansplaining. Don't actually have to accuse someone of being wrong, just talk down to people in an insinuating manner by explaining something that everyone already knows like your an authority. What exactly and what I said made you feel the need to educate me about other countries? What is it that I said that made you think I didn't know those things already... I think maybe you should have taken your mansplaining to be pee instead because obviously he's the one that doesn't understand this and asked for an explanation, which is why I wrote my comment.
And next time you feel the need to mansplain something to someone then you should actually check your information because I went in fact checked you and there are 21 countries who's drinking age is 21. It's always good when you want to have conversational superiority with someone to actually know what you're talking about.
All of Europe was dancing in clubs at 15. Even in former Yugoslavia. 😀 Because we went dancing. Nothing else.
Simple and fun times.
Exactly!! We did too in The Netherlands.... Just enjoying ourselves, dancing and listening to great music. Innocent.
But this is typical American purity.
The Beatles “She was just 17, you know what I mean…” was only recorded about decade earlier. New generation of teens will dance to it. Specially your daughters since you will be playing that song in your house.
ABBA was and is huge. They broke up in 83 and didn’t drop another album until 2021 which promptly went to #1 worldwide (#2 in the USA.) your reaction to this song is funny because they have another song, “Does Your Mother Know,” which is about that very thing. ABBA songs to react to:
Chiquitita
Fernando
Waterloo
SOS
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Money Money Money
Knowing Me Knowing You
Take A Chance on Me
The Winner Takes It All
When All Is Said And Done
Thank You For The Music
I Have A Dream
Does Your Mother Know
Don’t Shut Me Down
I Still Have Faith In You
Etc…etc…etc!
In 1974, ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo"
And second place, I believe, was Olivia Newton John.
Good Lord, its been going on that long? And America didn't even try to (unsuccessfully) duplicate it until 2022 (with limited success, let's see if they can pull it together again in 2024)
They failed to qualify the year before with "Rock Me".
@@angharaddenby3389 No, with Ring, ring.
and it was promptly banned by the BBC at the onset of the Gulf War.
I’m from N. Ireland and we had disco’s at our local hall from when I was only 13yrs old. You met up with your friends and danced the whole time. No drinking or smoking. Was going to nite clubs from 16yrs old. Again danced the whole time. Didn’t drink or smoke and had a blast. 💥 and Dancing Queen was one if not thee biggest hit around. Happy days ✨🇨🇮
A few days ago, 06/24, Abba received the Royal Order of Vasa from the Swedish royal couple for her extraordinary career. 7:00 In Germany in the 70s there were teen parties on Sunday afternoons in the discotheque where ABBA music was also played.
When this song came out, there were clubs everywhere. Teen clubs as well. Going to a club just to dance and party? I did it routinely at age 16. You live in a completely different time and different background where parents actually wanted to know where you were vs parents who tossed you out the door at 9am and be back at dark.
Sometimes you look at things so darkly. I understand since you’re a dad. This song uplifts so many people though. When the club age was 18 , people could get in at 17. We loved to dance in the seventies. I would go with my girlfriends. Nothing shady went on with us. We watched out for each other.
Europeans. Europeans are in the club at seventeen. And at sixteen ...and if you can cheat the entrance control - at fifteen. Legal age limit for drinking beer and wine in Germany: 16. In theory, you should leave the club at midnight if you are not eighteen yet.
I went at 13 with a group, got my stamp on and nothing happened. Why? Teens are ( or at least were) broke, drinks in a disco/club are expensive so... there was no reason to doubt. Also because we really went there to dance, if we wanted to do something stupid or ahem "round some bases", we'd have taken it to a less public place, where you wouldn't risk running into your uncle and aunt having a date night, or a neighbor who likes to gossip. But we were also raised differently to the kids today. I remember there was this one time when there was a gang fight that broke out because the gf of one dude was spotted at the disco with another dude and the guys gathered up for a knife fight. We recognized the troublemakers, we didn't wait for the scandal to break out, we took our sh*t and left. Would kids today do that? Nope, they'd stay to film it, or stream it on socials, and then pose as victims when they'd get their asses kicked and/or thrown out of there. And they'd probably be intoxicated.
I'm 58. When I was in Germany in '78-'80, aged 12-14, all you had to do to buy beer was ask for it and hand over the DM. I could buy beer and even schnapps at any stand along the way of a Volksmarch and beer at the local schwimbad, carnivals or even the local arcade. To be honest, I really just preferred to get a Spezi.
In Germany you can still now go into the clubs from age 16 years on, not only back then. :D
One of the biggest selling bands in the world. From the beautiful country of Sweden.
And really a super group! The Wall of Sound!
Dude we had clubs that were for kids under 18. I'm 61 and we were in the real clubs at 18 where I grew up. Great song putting to much dad thought into it. Skating rinks on Friday nights all us younger kids went without parents.
Sure did. Poor folks today. I feel for them.
We all were in the club in the 70's. I was clubbing at 13. Clubs back then had teen nights, and we took full advantage. Of course they only sold soft drinks on those nights. Also, ABBA is the 3rd biggest selling group in history.
I started clubbing at twelve, with my friends. Saturday Night Fever was everywhere and we danced our socks off.
A discussion of the moral complexities of "Dancing Queen." Wow.😂
LOL!
😂
I know, right??? Only in America, I guess.....
ABBA is a Swedish pop supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music.
it's a coming of age time. Young people used to go to dances, everything wasn't about sex
ABBA is an acronym for the band members first names Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny, Ani-Frid. They are from Sweden. They had 19 wold-wide hits between 1972 and 1982. They are still releasing music / performances today.
Fun fact, I believe it was back in 2000 ABBA was offered a guaranteed 1 billion to do 100 shows and they said no. That’s a lot of money to turn down.
We had teen clubs back in the late 1960’s and into early 70’s. Kids could go and hang out. 18 y/o couldn’t get in…they were considered an adult. So at 17 you could be a dancing queen.
I'm from the UK. I started going to clubs at 16. Yes, there was a bar, but we didn't drink alcohol we just went for the dancing. My dad dropped us off at the door and was waiting outside at midnight to pick us up. I am grateful that I had a loving and generous Dad who I miss.Gone now for thirty years
When I was in junior high and high school in the midwest in the 1960s, there were dance nights for the kids at clubs that usually catered to adults. Sometimes there was live music, and sometimes there were only records, but dancing was what was on our minds. ABBA is the most innocent music in the world, and even now I love it. You might have heard of the broadway musical "Mama Mia!" That's the story of this band; the music and lyrics were written by band members Benny Andersson and Bjrn Ulvaeus. Their entire catalog is worth checking out.
ABBA...classic!! The music inspires dancing in any generation. Bruddah, you looking too much into the words! Take it easy! ABBA broke tour records around the world; matched by Earth, Wind, and Fire, Elton John, etc. How lucky I grew up in the 1970s!! BEST DECADE of music!
😂😂OMG.....i'm nearly after falling off the chair laughing at your reaction !!......i was definitely in the club at 17,i'm 51 now.
Hey in Europe you can be in a club if you are under 17 ...haha! And we are even allowed to drink alcohol at 16 🙂 You have to see it that way: its an empowerment song for young women! Next song: Chiquitita, the best happy-sad song ever! Angelic voices!
Oh, noes. The poor babies will be corrupted! Yeah, I can't overemphasize how stupid and counterproductive the US's babying of teens over the past 30 years has been. What's worse is its started to make its way into adulthood. 17 year olds have fought in wars, yes, even in the US's wars. They've conquered other countries in the past. But Heaven forbid they are in a public place (and hence actually safer) with others of their age and even *gasp* full-on legal ADULTS where they can DANCE and DRINK.
Good answer 👍
Happy-sad pretty much sums up ABBA's music. I love 'em.
Dont hurt yourself, pops!
Its wholesome as hell. Youre 17 back in the day, you cant drink or smoke legally, you cant own or do shit, you just graduated and have all this newfound responsibility and youre still seen as a child in the laws of the law and tour parents and schoo. You're 17, and you can't do anything. Well, then ima dance tonight!!!. The best part of this music video is seeing the kids in the crowd, in their own little bubble, not trying to impress anymore, just dancing, busting down the moves.
LOL. After I watched this video, I'm so so happy to be a child from the 70s / 80s and to be a German. Thanks for your video 💐
In the UK and Europe getting into a club at 15 was not unheard of... Good times, lol
In Europe we (can) trust our kids and allow them mistakes from which they learn: In Germany you can go to a club at 16, you just have to leave before midnight. And you even are of legal drinking age for beer and wine.
The US rules sound rather odd and destructive to us, forcing nearly adult or fully adult young people into illegality. You're old enough to join the Army and kill people around the world, but not to go dancing? Seriously?
In GER and much of central Europe, many kids still get lessons in ballroom dancing at age 14.
In commercial dancing schools/clubs, not at their High School .
So going to a dancing club is totally normal.
You could get into a Club, but not allowed to drink, but 16 was a Min in the UK.
Who was in the club ? ... 😂 EVERYBODY !!! 💃🏻🕺🏼👯♂️
The drinking age should again be 18 in the U.S. (a legal argument could be made that having it at 21 violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment). Excluding alcoholics, EVERYONE I know drank more when they were under 21.
Discotheques and dance clubs were places where you could showcase your dance moves like 'Dance Fever'. They weren't hookup places until much later.
Exactly..and later music ,hate to say but like some rap were vulnerable, the lyrics and videos...parents should have really watching their girls then !
Vulger not vulnerable
In those times, my community center had a dance night every Saturday night. You had to be 12 to go. They played music sold snacks, pop and candy... We danced and danced. Some of the best times of my life... it was just awesome ❤
I used to go to a disco for under 18s once a week from 13yrs old
Just to dance
My mum or my friends mum would collect us at 10pm
I had all ABBAs records and it was an innocent and fun part of my teens
ABBA is from Sweden and were a world-wide phenomenon. Dancing Queen was released just before disco became really popular in the late 70's.
Excactly.
Yeah and not all the members of Abba could speak English, so the girls were often singing phonetically.
When the dancing culture hit big during the disco era, there were dancing clubs open to teens for limited weekend daytime time slots. Just teens meeting and dancing to the current hits. Somewhat like the roller rink without skating. The memories of this era during my freshman (9th grade) years are ones I cherish and never forget 🥰
I was in the club at 15-it was about the dancing 100%
In Michigan, we had dance clubs everywhere in the 60s. They were non-alcoholic venues.
Different time 🤣 and it’s Europe. We did it different no big deal to party at 17 yers old 😂😂😂
Lol like no one partied in the US at 15, 16, or 17.
I got in clubs at 17 and I tried to be a Dancing Queen!! At that time in the '70s, you could get in bars in some areas at 18, but you could only be served beer. If you were 21 and older you could have mixed drinks!! The small clubs weren't as strict as they are now!! It was absolutely some of the best times I ever had!! I wasn't a big drinker, so just dancing and hanging with friends was a great time!! I miss those times so much!! ❤❤
17 years olds were not babied in the 70s like they are today. Also, as mentioned elsewhere, the drinking age in the US was 18 back then and younger people were allowed in the club but were not allowed to drink. And FINALLY, 17 is the only three syllable teen number.
The older generation as teens had the privilege of going to actual dances where no alcohol was served. The 50s, 60s, 70s. High schools had Friday night dances as well as dance halls just for teens. We did have “The Time of Our Lives “. Sorry you missed it.
It´s just 50 years since ABBA won the European Song Contest for Sweden with a song called Waterloo. They have written hundreds of songs and musicals.
Eurovision
Oh, I was 15 getting into clubs dancing to disco with my older sisters! So much innocent fun we had.
ABBA!!!! They're great.
The winner takes it all with abba, great lyrics 😊
Benny Anderson, piano player, Bjorn Ulvaes, guitarist, wrote the music for all the ABBA songs. Stig Anderson was the Manager of Polar Studios in Sweden and helped ABBA get their start. The little kid dancing you mentioned is Bjorn and Agnetha’s( the blonde) daughter. They were married and divorced during ABBAs 10 years at the top. Benny and the red head Anna-Frida was also a couple who also married and divorced. The group remained together for a few years after both divorces. Even singing the songs their exs wrote about their divorces!!!! They were all successful singers in Sweden and were dating before they ever became ABBA.
There is no way that girl dancing is Agnetha's daughter Linda she was born in 1973.
In the 80's, we had teen dance clubs. Good times!
School dances in junior high. Great times.
ABBA was comprised of the two ladies and their husbands - the ladies did the singing, the husbands wrote the songs and did backing instruments
Just two words: more ABBA
9:44 - to 11:44 - my biggest laugh in a long time - could not stop - wife had to check on me as to why I was laughing so hard - thanks for the comedic relief.
lol things were so different in the 70’s and 80’s than now
I’m just another one of these people that are completely stun that you are unaware of who ABBA are… Look forward to watching you react to the videos and music of one of the greatest bands in the world is ever seen
My parents are traditionalist Christians, my mum's Norwegian, we had a pretty sheltered childhood. ABBA were the only contemporary pop music we could listen to.
The song is a nostalgic look back at teenage hood, remembering that joy, fun and riddled with Nordic melancholic sadness as adults in one's 30s/40s.
This was in the 70`s, I`m Danish started going to clubs at 16, and that was in the late 80`s. I get you have to be 21 to be adult in US.
In the 90's I started joining my older relatives on some of their nights out when I was 12. So when I turned 18, I was kinda over it already. This things there were no legal age limit to drinking then. - But for me it was mostly soda and laughing and dancing with my peeps.
Danes did, and still do thing differently than the US, but I do admit that I was usually the youngest in the club. But only by a couple of years. And I was also lucky that my relatives where such great teachers and protectors. So when most of my friend stated to go out, I knew enough to keep them out of the worst trouble.
Yes rediculous! I knew someone who had already been around the word by 19 yrs old. In American bars he was not allowed a drink and in some "Bible belt states" was asked to leave the bar !
As I said before America is prudish in a lot of respects...that's what I got when I lived in Europe...
Up until like 1986, drinking age was 18 in America, and we could go to clubs. Many had clubs we could go to with adults at age 16, but our hand stamps were different color meaning no alcohol.
We started going to clubs at 16, pretty normal in the 80s/90s. Drinking age is 18. So 17 is pretty normal to club
Get a grip! In Texas, I got my driver's license & bought my 1st car at 14 in the 60's. I had a job after school to pay for everything. We spent a lot of time at the drive-in movies. When you picked up your date, her Dad always answered the door. Time to make a good impression! He would tell you when she had to be home. If you wanted to continue dating her, you got her home on time. AND, you never told him that you were taking his little girl to the drive-in.
When I was a teen in the early 70s we had dances every weekend. Teens only. No alcohol. I'm sure not everyone was completely "innocent" but most of us just wanted to dance & have fun.
Oh for heaven’s sake…this was a different time and era. The group name ABBA (pronounced ah-ba) is the initials of the group members, Björn & Benny, Agnetha & Anni-Frid. Björn and. Annie-Frid were both born in 1945, Benny in 1946 and Agnetha in 1950. They’re from Sweden and in 1974, they were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest. This song was written in 1976, so the writers would have been 30 years old. Back then teen dance clubs were really popular because the disco era was at its peak. Teen clubs didn’t serve alcohol and usually had an earlier closing time than an adult club would. Teens also danced at community centers, at home parties, school events, etc. The Broadway play and later movie Mama Mia! was based on their music, and Mama Mia, Here We Go Again the sequel as well.
German here. Me. Went dancing, drinking etc with 17 (16). legally. They are Swedish. Probably the same. And yes, everything was earlier. My mom has stories from being 14/15. She is over 70 now. live was just wilder then
I'm from the USA, but I went to Germany in 1988 with a high school group and we got to go to all sorts of places and do all sorts of things you'd have to be 18 or even 21 years old to do in the USA.
And a bit safer...
Yep...I startet at 14 ! 1973
as a 55 year old who listened to this as a younger woman and knew the lyrics coming up. I died literally spit my coffee on my computer screen I was laughing so hard when you said..."maybe its innocent...lets just have fun..." It was different then not better and yes there were clubs around the world that had allowed children into the club with the parents... Dad instincts dead on BP
I'm in my 60's and and have loved this song since it came out. Back then I had a friend from Finland named Tuula, and she was absolutely a dancing queen. No matter where she went, if there was dancing, soon the people around her would move off in a circle and just watch her. With my two left feet I could never dance, but that was ok, because just watching her was magic! This song will forever remind me of her. I believe she was 17 when we first met at university. They never carded you at campus parties. And yes, we did have some wild ones like in the song! 😅
I'm from Canada and 63. We were going to the clubs when we were 15 or 16...lol! Those were the days! And we all turned out great! Legal age for drinking and going to bars is 18 in Canada. I have relatives in Holland and I went there with my family when I was 16 and my cousins took us to clubs and we danced away!
The four ABBA members received Swedish knighthood on Friday, May 31st.
Like, 2 days ago?
Yes
Yes
That was such an emotional moment.Here in Europe it got transmitted via live streaming.Some channels also got live the whole ceremony.
I was in the club at 17 in the 80’s in Brooklyn; was a different (and better) time! ❤
Dancing at 17 is better than what some of the 17 year olds are doing on Prom Night.😂
Benny Anderson was one of the band members and Stig Anderson was their manager.
In Europe, ages of consent were generally younger than here in America. Also, there are many "teen clubs" where there is no alcohol. ABBA's Benny wrote the song.
I’m 50, from the Midwest US, and have been clubbing since I was 14…y’all younger generations were SHELTERED! 😂
As a teenager of the 70's there were under age disco's at the Newcastle Town Hall, and they were great.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
🙏 "Thank You For the Music" is one of the most beautiful of ABBAs songs. There are many of course. And thank you Black Pegasus for the reactionsl ❤🙏
I lived in Denmark in the late 70s and they were everywhere. We went to the clubs at 16, drank and danced all night. Different times back then. I saw them twice and it was phenomenal. Their talent was exceptional.
We used to go out to the clubs and dance without any other expectations. No pressure. Just fun.
Sign me up for your ABBA rabbit hole. Although there are tons of songs I'd do before Chiquitita... like Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, The Winner Takes it All, Super Trouper, Fernando, Take A Chance On Me for starters...
For many of us, it really was very inncent. We really just wanted to dance. One of my best memories, I was 19, my work had a dance for some reason. I guess people were not sure of proticol or something, NO one asked me to dance. So, heck, I think it was Santana that came on and I went out to dance by myself. By the end of the night I was dancing with half a dozen guys, it was all just great fun. Raise your girls to recognize their own inherent worth, and they'll be OK.
She is 17 because, yes, it was different back then. On the maturity scale, yesterday's 17 doesn't even compare to today's 17. I know 16 yr olds today that are perfectly happy having their parents chauffer them wherever they want to go. In the 70's & 80's your drivers license was your ticket to freedom and personal responsibility. In fact, I had a part-time job and a checking account at 17. I'd add that this song is mild compared to a fair amount of the stuff out there today.......right Cardi B?
It is not like that at all. Once again you people live through rose coloured glasses and are too stupid to know better.
Honey, I was in the discos at 17, it was different back then...
Yes ,I don't know what happened we were younger and it was ok...BP traveled the world with rap. Do you know how rap ( early gangster type garbage) corrupted the youth? What freaking kind of clubs were young kids going in then and seeing what goings on and hearing what kind of language???
Truth
We got in bars and were supposed to drink beer only, but I got mixed drinks and had many taken away, because they knew I was under 21!! Oh, the memories!! 😂😂
Girls back then just growing up & being girls together can invoke a reaction in men with no intention to do so. So to a guy, it is a tease. Then, forcfome goals, it's intentional. Have 4 sisters...2 innocent and 2 snakes...
Hormones man
It was not all that different then. Now the girls hang out with Drake or Diddy.
ABBA Swedish band won Eurovision in 1974..it all started from there. ❤
♥ ABBA! So many songs to request: SOS, Vouez Vous, Winner Takes It All, Money Money Money, Chiquitita, Gimme Gimme Gimme, Take A Chance On Me & Summer Nite City
Back in 70s and 80s there were tons of dance clubs that had teen nights. We'd hit the clubs all the time. No alcohol just dancing.
Don't get too hung up on the whole seventeen thing. They needed 3 syllables to make the line work
Love it.
So right ! He's doing a reaction I wouldn't have expected from him ! Lol
Exactly and it rhymes with queen
This is one of the best songs ever to me. Always gets people up dancing at events without fail.
Abba massive in the UK at the time ❤ gotta delve into this group you'll be amazed .
I remember there being dance clubs for teens at least in the 80's because my teenage sisters would go.
We went to clubs 15 ... 16 ... 17 years old in the UK... back in the 70s and 80s and 90s as long as you could get in ... the legal age was 18 ... but if you looked old enough you got in .. I got into a club for the first time at 16 ... 1984 ... solihull... west Midlands.. UK 🇬🇧
Look at the Winner takes it all. Amazing song, amazing vocals legend of a band.
G'day and welcome to Fatherhood. ABBA was huge in Australia when I was growing up. Just goes to show my age.