one of the best bands ever. their harmonies are beyond epic. songwriting,etc. and as far as staying power. i can imagine 500 years from now people will still be listening to ABBA.
She was married to the guy playing the guitar who also wrote the song and they got divorced but continued to play in the group. It must have been weird but they got on with it and turned it into another hit.
ABBA were the real thing - a supergroup. This song was written by her ex husband shortly after they broke up. He wrote the lyrics in a drunken hour or so - showed her the lyrics and she burst out crying. They were two married couples when they formed the group. They sang without the technologies we have today - they were for real. The other girl, Anni-Frid also had a beautiful voice - try Fernando! They harmonised perfectly together and made a very unique and recognisable ABBA sound. The boys wrote the music and lyrics - sounds simple, but actually pretty complex and always with a "hook" to get stuck in your brain. Watch more!
"Dancing Queen" is indeed a perfect pop song, but somehow tinged with a sadness that the singer is no longer a 17 year old dancing queen herself (at the "advanced" age of 26 when she sang it!) Others have described the feelings of melancholy, yearning and of the sadness that ABBA always portrays so beautifully. "One of Us", "Chiquitita", "Fernando", "Happy New Year", "Thank you for the music", "Knowing Me, Knowing You" and many more invoke similar emotions.
This was Agnetha's voice, just beautiful, yet very sad & true. The song was about her husband (on the left) who wanted a divorce. The song was written by Benny, the pianist. Ani-Frid was the other singer. I honestly don't know how they wrote such a sad song that Agnetha could sing. Very very sad. 😥😥
I love to see young people appreciate ABBA, ive been a massive fan since 1974, They are the best and most successful group of all time. Great to know you want to do more ABBA, there's so many to choose from and you won't be disappointed, they never made a bad song
ABBA are a huge rabbit hole if you enjoy pop and older music, well worth a deep dive. Two females share leads, Agnetha and Frida, and all four, but especially the females do the gorgeous harmonies. The males. Benny and Bjorn, write and perform the music and lyrics. Could you react to their TV performance of "SOS" in 1975 please?
A masterpiece of ABBA 👌! A song about getting divorced... Sung by Agnetha, and written by her ex-husband, Björn (on guitar, to her right). The other couple, formed by Frida and Benny, the boy at the piano, divorced the following year (1981). ABBA would go on a hiatus (which became almost permanent) in 1982. BEST ⭐ POP ⭐ BAND ⭐ EVER! PLEASE MORE 🙏! I Suggest 'Money money money' Take care, Rere See you soon ✌️ Love ❤️ from Chile 🇨🇱🤗😘👍
The funny thing about that song is that it involves the people in the group, the 2 couples in the group were married to each other and decided to call it quits, and the song is about their divorce. It’s crazy that they wrote that a song and performed it.
ABBA's music is often based on their experiences and outlooks on life, more so than people believe. Benny and Björn wrote all the songs and music together, usually sitting in a small cottage on an island in the Stockholm Archipelago. Agneta and Annefrid were the singers. They were originally two couples, Björn + Agneta and Benny + Annefrid. They both split after a while. Who instigated the separation between Björn and Agneta is unknown - and unimportant. After the split, they continued to cooperate as a band.
ABBA has released well over 100 great songs. Plenty to choose from for future reactions. Dancing Queen is probably their most famous and successful release.
In this song Agnetha actually sing about her life and divorce with Bjorn (man, who wrote songs and played the guitar in the group), that's why it feels so real from her.
For someone who doesn;t know, it's not that easy to clear out what era was this song recorded.Still sounds so relevant for a track that was released .... 44 years ago!!No autotune btw.Just pure talent and technically superior vocal potentials.
The greatest pop/rock group of all time and so ahead of their time as far as the technical side of composition lyrically and musically. Benny Anderson on keyboards was instrumental in the arrangements of every song he and Bjorn wrote. I saw them live in Sydney Australia in 1977 when I was 15 yrs old and to this day I still play all my ABBA songs! They reunited only recently and are now the most successful band over 50 yrs.!
The first Song I heard when I was a 3yo kid in 1980. Since then this Song is in my deepest memories. It started my love for music in general. Later I became a Queen Fan but ABBA always was close to my Heart.
Official video is also a must seen even privately.It's wrapped up with a lot of emotion and Agnetha who handles the lead here is very convincing in her acting.She possibly put some of her real experience in there.
I just found your channel thanks to the algorithm. I love watching young people discovering and loving the music that I grew up with. I enjoy hearing your analysis and thoughts. The 70s and 80s music tells stories that everyone can relate to in some way, and they sing it with the passion and pain of having gone through those situations and emotions. I'm so excited to see your reaction to what's next. In my opinion, Dancing Queen is their biggest hit. Have you ever heard of the movie Mama Mia? That show is based around ABBA's most loved songs. I consider myself a manly man, and even i shamelessly enjoyed that movie, it being a musical chick flick and all. I'm looking forward to bringing your past reactions and for what's next. I'm sure you hear it all the time, I love your accent! Much love from the 🇺🇸.
Just for your own satisfaction you should check the official video for this, the emotion Agnetha (my first crush) brings to it is Oscar worthy. As people have said there are so many brilliant ABBA songs, but a couple I’ve not seen mentioned are Arrival and Eagle. One of the great stadium songs is Thank You For The Music which sums up their careers. Thank you for carrying the flame for the greatest music into the next generation, you make an old man feel very pleased that the music of my youth will live on through people such as yourself.
Almost every ABBA sing will amaze you.... Upbeat: Super Trouper, Voulez-Vous, Take a Chance On Me, Dancing Queen, Lay All Your Love On Me and many more Songs like Winner Takes It All: One Of Us, The Day Before You Came, Chiquitita, Fernando, Happy New Year (good to comment on around newyears day) and many more
This was a song about divorce... Agnetha (singer) and the guitar player, Björn. I recommend Dancing Queen, Fernando, Mamma Mia, and many more. They are a Swedish group form the 70s.
But, digital audio workstations were already around since the early 90:s (91 and on) and they could manipulate the pitch manually (ie no Auto in the tuning) by cutting the audio parts up to slices and pitch them manually. Auto Tune made this much easier. And samplers were around already in the 80:s and in them you could also make recordings of voice parts and control the different takes from a sequencer in a computer triggering the samples from the outboard sampler. Probably good enough for quality and length of the clips in the absolute best samplers already in the mid 80:s! Synclavier and Fairlight at that time were already kind of digital audio workstations with CD-sound quality (or even above it). But, as said, not as easy and not automatic. But still voice pitch correction nevertheless much earlier than many would have thought! Earlier than that, even around Abbas time, An eventide Harmonizer could be used to make minor subtle pitch corrections. But it wasn't that good to begin with but apparently it got better over time...
stunning in its honesty, beauty, longing n heartache, bjorn ( guitar) wrote it about her ( agnetha singer) n ver divorce, whn she read v lyrics she creid as she knew it was about her. agas emotive vocal touches most of us. uve discoverd a gold mine, abba one of v bigest seeling groups of all time, ver hitmakers in 70s n early 80s. 2 married couples, boys songwriters n v 2 girls singers, wonderful n powerful combo. aga hated fame n wanted out n vey broke up after reachn superstardom. she became a recluse trying to recover frm being 'famed'. shes oknow. last yr vey relaesed a new album, first since breakup in early 80s. v boys also wrote musicals. frm sweden. enjoy ur discovery!
@@petterhansson7312 That's not true. At the time they tried to present it that way but that's because that's what famous people often do. But it's far from the truth. Agnetha was devastated by the divorce and their daughter had a very hard time with it as well.
Both songs u reacted "Chiquitita/The Winner" are part of the 2nd best selling album ever in the UK "ABBA GOLD" (still in the charts since 1992-over 6 mill.copies sold there )and the album with the longest chart residency ever there too.
3 groups dominated the 70's music: ABBA (Sweden), The Bee Gees (Australia/UK) and Boney M. (Germany), especially the 2nd half of the decade. There's 2 movies where most ABBA songs are featured: Mamma Mia 1 & 2 with Meryl Streep and Amanda Seyfried. ABBA's album "Voulez-Vous" is a great hit with some 12 songs or so, a real treat to the ear.
Björn at the Guitar wrote the Lyrics about ending a relationship.. which he ended, with Agnetha, on the leading vocals.. She is said to have been crying when she for the first time was reading the lyrics... Björn denied it was all about them breaking up.. now everyone knows it probably was?!? .. ABBA- A small band from Sweden with only 450million+ records sold !!! :D :D
Beautifull voice and song. Though a Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal Head their song FERNANDO seems to call my attention!! DANCING QUEEN another Bangah!! Great Reaction! You nailed! No such thing as Auto Tune then and competition was tough to be noticed from the streets basically. No RU-vid! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
ABBA produced some of the best music ever at one point people made fun of being an abba fan but people realise now just how good they are and it is cool to be an abba fan in todays world yet another legendary group i was fourtunate to grow up with ! Gimmie Gimme Gimme is another fantastic abba song.
We, the ABBA fans, expect you to come back with many more of their hits. And, as happens with many reactors, we expect you to say every time "This is my favourite ABBA song so far">
How nice to see you again with what I believe is your second reaction to ABBA songs Your previous song was "Chiquitita" from January 1979, and now it's "The winner takes it all" from August 1980 Both were the first singles from their albums. But there is one more important fact that unites these two songs By the time of the release of "Chiquitita" the blonde couple Agnetha and Björn had separated And by the time of the release of "The winner takes it all" their legal divorce had already been finalized And the lyrics of this song (written by the blonde guitarist, on a melody by the bearded pianist) are an inspiration from her own divorce (not exactly their real life) I agree with you that the interpretation of the blonde singer Agnetha is extraordinary, in the exact sense of the word Only she can use her prodigious soprano voice with such power, emotion and vulnerability "The winner takes it all" was the eighth #1 in the UK and ABBA's fourth and final Top 10 in the US and it's blonde Agnetha's favourite song ABBA has over 20 worldwide hits Waterloo (winner of Eurovision 1974) Mamma Mia Dancing Queen but I suggest you do some with brunette Frida on lead vocals: Fernando Knowing me knowing you Super Trouper (all three were #1 in UK) I hope you continue your deep immersion in ABBA's deep catalogue Best regards from Buenos Aires Argentina South America
Apparently, during the break up of the two players in the band, he sat down one night with a piano and a bottle of whiskey and essentially made this song. It was him putting his heart into the music, expressing himself about what happened to his marriage and what he felt that he was going through. Apparently his ex was quite stunned when she read the song and he said to her deal with it. This is how I feel, and if you can’t deal with it, it’s not my problem.
What a killer song. They are way before my time, but the ABBA sound is known around the world. I could hear this in White Lotus or a club in Santorini or in Miami. It's dated but so beautiful and moving and the beat is propulsive, building so much emotion. And of course her voice is so delicate and piercing at once. Just lovely.
The best pop band ever to grace this world. Sold more records than any other group besides the Beatles. Please can you react to I’ve Been Waiting for You by ABBA. It’s my absolute favourite by them. It was never released as a single (except in Australia) but it’s a brilliant song.
Björn- (the guitarist), who is standing beside her, was her husband. The band was two married couples. Björn wrote the lyrics and Benny-(piano player) wrote the music 2 weeks after their divorce came through. Yes, they all have turns in taking lead vocals. Try: Fernando / Does your mother know / Knowing me, Knowing you. There's over 100 songs to explore
PS There was no autotune as it needs processing power and PCs weren't a thing in the 70's. let alone mobile phones! There was some basic pitch correction and of course mixing desks in the late 70's but auto-tune as it is now didn't start until the 90's This is pure talent though, and you can watch live performances to realise just how good they were.
I love this song. If you look at her face, you will know this was personal to her. Another great break-up song is 'If you could read my mind' by Gordon Lightfoot. About his divorce. Cher sang 'Believe' in '99, that was the first auto-tune song in pop music. According to Billboard 'Believe' was the #1 song of that year.
As far as I know Bjorn - the blonde guitarist - wrote it about his divorce with Agnetha - the singer - which is exemplified by the line "the judges will decide, the likes of me abide." ABBA afr infamous for being inter married like Fleetwood Mac. Only, all 4 members of ABBA were married whereas Mick Fleetwood wasn't married to any band members. I'm so glad you loved it bc it is, always has been & always will be my favorite ABBA song. Many of their songs are fabulous of course but the way they write beark-up songs stand out with their honesty & how the music is still happy. Only Go your own Way by Fleetwood Mac is a happier break-up song. IMO. [oh & my other fave by ABBA is knowing me knowing you which again is an example of their break-up songs] I like your channel BTW as it's a bit of a rarity to see fellow compatriots doing reactions.
I read in the comments somewhere that this song was written at the time of the breakup of 2 of the members of this group. Imagine doing this song this good in the middle of all that. I would personally recommed Chiquitita or Fernando, soo good 🎵🎵
ABBA was a global phenomenon, like the Beatles, Kiss, etc. I was totally smitten by Agnetha (the blonde, female vocalist) as a young boy. Agnetha and Bjorn (guitarist) used to be a couple and Anafrid (the other female vocalist) was married to Benny (pianist). Agnetha and Bjorn divorced. This song was about that. You can catch some looks from Bjorn before he snaps back to his 'stage face'. ABBA, the band name is made from their names A(gnetha)B(jorn)B(enny)A(nafrid). You've got to react to 'Dancing Queen' - one of, if not, their most famous song. If you want to see another amazing, blonde, female vocalist, singing a melancholy song about a break up, try Lara Fabian (French Canadian singer) singing 'Je Suis Malade' (I Am SIck), live, in 1999 (in French - there are versions with English subtitles). It's incredible, especially that last note. I don't speak French, but you don't need to. It's fantastic.
If you liked Agnetha's singing, maybe you could react to a song she released last year called Where Do We Go From Here. At 73 years old, she still has a great voice.
Yes, magnificent... and you're absolutely right: no autotune at that time. Much has been said already in the other comments, but I think nobody wrote that -- if this actually is the first ABBA song you reacted to -- you started somewhat backwards with the last one. So, you've got a rabbit hole before you, and you might like to start with "Waterloo", which was their breakthrough song, internationally. I hope you will continue. 🙂 All the very best from Germany
Oh my dear, when will we hear one of the songs of Demis Roussos, one of the legends of singing throughout musical history? He has a galaxy of immortal songs. He was the king of romantic songs during the sixties and seventies with his wonderful golden voice. Let us start with the song Winter Rains. Thank you, the one with the most beautiful smile.
Some audiences are just reserved it doesn't mean they didn't love it. Also back in the 60s and 70s into the 80s people were used to that level of bands and musicians. :D
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