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Love your reactions! Just subscribed. Let me see if I can help you with Bjorn and Agnetha's names. You are pronouncing it like Bshorn, when it is really softer as Byorn, one syllable. Agnetha can be pronounced three ways according to her. An-yetta, or Ang-yetta, or Ang-y-etta the last two barely pronouncing the g. In any case, the th just makes a t sound. Keep up the good work man. Love it. Try reacting to Grace Vanderwaal' music. She started on AGT and is incredible.
@@brucethrasher8551 As a swede I must correct you. Björn's name in english is pronounced as it is spelled: Bjorn. The correct swedish pronunciation of Agnetha's name is Angneta, where it's a subtle "N" pronunciation before the letter "G" and the letter "H" is silent.
@@antonwiderberg7571 As I said the name Bjorn is pronounced exactly the way I said. I was not spelling it. I was trying to get an American to say it correctly. One syllable. Just like you said, and just like I said. As far as Agnetha, that came from her mouth, she said any of the three are correct. I did not know how to say it, so I came across an interview where she explains it.
@@brucethrasher8551 I know what interview you're referring to. In that interview she only says "An-ye-tta" because she wants to make it a lot easier for all non native swedish speakers. And in the same interview she says her name in the correct swedish pronunciation, which is Angneta. How can you even question a swedish native speaker regarding a swedish pronunciation? Angneta is the correct pronunciation, ask any swede and they will agree with me.
I'm 63 years of age, I've been luck enough to see ABBA live in Manchester UK in 1977 and this song still, for god's sake, makes me cry every time I see or hear Agnetha perform it. I have a tear in my eye as I type this. For me, Agnetha Faltskog is simply one of the greatest female vocalists of all time. Her emotion runs so unbelievably deep. She's one of those people who only needs one name to know who she is. Like Elvis, the name Agnetha is simply enough. On top of that, she was and remains to this day stunningly beautiful in both mind and body I feel gifted to have had the pleasure of listening to her all these years. I really can't think of anyone else I would say that about.
This particular version rips me up and gives me goosebumps still....after all these years. Agnetha’s performance is so raw, because her emotions were so raw, she’s singing her pain as it’s happening, she even tears up a few times, she’s singing her life...it’s about her and Bjorn’s divorce. He wrote it, and she had to sing it..and she is a super trooper, an incredibly courageous woman, because she did, she got up there, and she sang it.
I feel kinda bad for her as she had to sing it because she was heartbroken after their divorce and singing about it without crying makes me sad. Agnetha is a really strong woman.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches Agnetha said: "Björn wrote it about us after the breakdown of our marriage. The fact that he wrote it exactly when we divorced is touching really. "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."
This is the break up song - no victories, and no winners in divorce. When you think that this song was written by her now ex-husband (playing guitar) in a drunken hour or so. Despite the denials that it was strictly about them, he did later admit that when he showed her the song, she cried her eyes out. This is real emotion, real feelings being exposed. Abba had a dark side to much of their music, especially towards the end - a very Scandinavian thing I believe. The new songs, the lyrics reflect all that too. Magical, clever, complex music making and story telling - that on the surface appears so simple. DO NOT COMPARE TO MADONNA!
Exactly! The story goes that they gave Agnetha the option of singing backup, but she insisted on singing lead - even though it - according to HER words "stomped on her heart" at the time.
By the way, "the Winner Takes it All" title is completely summed up in the final lyric where she says "no self confidence, but - you see - the winner takes it all."
Abba to this day gives me chill’s and smile to my face, Í was á child when they won theEurovision contest and Í remember it almost like it was yesterday.
@@lisamareepritchard6375 I agree this is an emotional song but for me personally it is not relatable. I have a very beautiful and strong relationship with my wife. Touchwood. Now the ABBA song that really scares me is "Slipping through my fingers". I grew up listening to that song and it never bothered me. But now as a father to a 4 year old daughter it scares the sh*t out of me. The looming inevitable. 😒
As much as I love Agnetha's original version, Mirelle Mathieu's French cover is even better - it is absolutely amazing. And ABBA sings back up on this cover! Listen here: th-cam.com/video/nm2BY3Os7kk/w-d-xo.html
They were super stars and massively talented. Back then there was no Auto tune, so what you hear is unadulterated talent. Music now pales in comparison.
@@lukapitkanen3333 Music now is shallow, one dimensional drivel. There are precious few musicians these days that can sing without autotune, write actual deep and meaningful lyrics or even play instruments anywhere close to how they were pkayed in the past. If you have a suggestion as to those great modern musici, l am more than happy to be proven wrong.
@@kellyr2681 It would be absurd to say there’s only few musician that can sing or write music when there’s millions of artists working today. But I can suggest a few. I think you want to hear mostly traditional live instruments and no autotune. Check out Fleet Foxes, Destroyer (chinatown is a good song if the band doesn’t show up on search), Fiona Apple, Blood Orange, Angel Olsen. They all have meaningful lyrics too. But if you really want to enjoy music you should open your mind for new things and not be restricted by ideas like autotune=bad. Listen to Beach House, it’s one of my favorite bands all time!
Abba one of the greatest group where every song has meaning and poetry with beautiful voices that combine and sound almost angelic their music is one of a kind and I will forever love them it doesn't get old.
For many of us, Abba will always be associated with the best years we had, the 70s. Things were simpler back then. In these times of lockdown, wars, global warming, social unrest this music is peace for the soul. And a lot about our own nostalgia.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I'm sure they would say that to the public, no point airing your dirty laundry in public, it's just too much of a coincidence that he wrote this song the same time they were getting a divorce.
Here's what makes the song even more interesting. The guy playing the guitar in the purple suit was married to the girl singing it. They had just gotten divorced. He wrote the lyrics while drunk, including "tell me, does she kiss, like I used to kiss you", which his ex wife is now singing here. Her pain in this song is all real.
@@FortWorthFabian Yeah. They'd just got divorced. Then Benny got divorced from Frida. But they still made music for another year or so, but the music got very dark, very deep. The last song, "The Day Before You Came", is a million miles away from Waterloo etc. It's just Benny on a synth, and Agnetha singing about a woman's dull, barely remembered day of boredom. The title suggests that this is before someone came and swept her off her feet, but the music is telling a very different story - one of foreboding and death: th-cam.com/video/1HnOFwqpLRQ/w-d-xo.html
@@kingstumble Agnetha makes it clear in her interviews that yes, of course it was about their divorce, but that saying "The Winner Takes it All" is kind of sarcastic because, of course, there are no winners.
For years Bjorn denied the song was about his and Agnetha’s divorce, but, in recent years he no longer denies what is plainly obvious. Agnetha has always been pretty clear that the song while not necessarily being a literal interpretation of the breakup with Bjorn, it obviously was influenced by the disintegration of their relationship. I like this performance video, but, I think the official video for the song packs a more emotional punch. To me this song marks a turning point and the beginning of the process of the band dissolving. So, while I recognize it as a stunning piece of music in ABBA’s catalog, at the same time I find it a real sad indicator of how different the energy of the band was from that point on right up till the end.
Agnetha has always managed to put her heart into the songs bringing the emotion to the forefront This song gets me each time. It was playing on the radio when my partner for 15 yrs walked out.
The official video of this is absolutely incredible. In the last section Agnethas' voice "cracks". Gets me every time! Even thinking about it now.... Pure talent these guys, rightfully lauded as GOAT!
Don't be so sure. She's said it's her favorite song. Bjorn said he wrote the lyrics while getting stupid drunk. She quit the group because she wanted to devote her time to their children and was getting traumatized by touring (over the top stalking fans and the demands of their performances. Check out the song "I'm a marionette"). Bjorn wanted to continue touring. She quit and got the children. So who won?
Appreciate you doing so much with Abba reactions. My dad loved Abba and remember driving to Baltimore National Aquarium yearly from Philadelphia listening to Abba...Great music and talent transcend genres.
This is one of the most iconic vocal performances of all time .everything about the music singing and musicianship is top draw. Treasure of the highest quality.
This song makes me sad, not because of my broken marriage, but because compared to most modern music, the older music was of a much better quality. There’s no comparison. Awesome emotional divorce song.
Greetings from Sweden! Glad you liked this song. :) My mom is swedish. When I was a boy I used to go fishing with my mom a lot, and she being a huge ABBA fan she always played ABBA tapes in the car, so I became a fan from an early age. This song is so beautiful and hauntingly sad at the same time. I believe anyone can relate to it in a personal way.
hi fabian this is the first time in my life I have ever watched any form of reaction vidios and it wasent until ABBA recorded their 2 new songs,I was born in 1946 and was weened on great music from all over the world such as The Four Seasons ,the Belmonts ,Elvis Beatles Demiss Rouissos and the list goes on and in 1964 I joined the army spending the next 25 years to 1989 loved my life but even we did lots of active service music brought warmth into our hearts and both me and my wife love to dance when ever we had a chance and without a doubt ABBA recorded some of the best music ever some sad but heart warming and the rest brilliant but I have been so impressed by your reactions which stared after about 4 songs I beleave then you was becoming hooked and its so easy with ABBA as their music grows on you and you had a thirst to know more about them and I say well done Fabian home work on going and you are taking part in a historic moment in history which is about to explode with the release of their new album which in the UK 80000 orders have been place by music shops man the world will go crazy never been seen before unlike some who have jumped on the band wagon to build up their subscribers keep up your great work you have my respect Jim Foster now living in Spain
Also, I can't help getting a little choked up at the words in the last verse "and I understand", if you listen very carefully she goes a little sharp and her voice cracks ever so slightly, as she get emotional in that moment herself. Those girls were both wonderful at expressing the emotions as they be felt empathetically. The whole band were barely old enough to have experienced anything of life, yet so mature beyond their years.
@@OgreProgrammer Agnetha and Bjorn had married, won Eurovision, had two children, toured the world and (separately), Europe and North and South America, sold (at that time, over 100 million records) and divorced so I guess her experiences were pretty limited.
Thank God we had them and sad that we never acknowledged them because if you're a 16 year old male in America, they weren't "cool" enough so a lot of us had a secret crush on her, both of them really and now go ask any boomer and we can finally say WE LOVE ABBA! The same for Karen Carpenter, it is the greatest gift to people. Nobody else can claim to make such painfully joyful music.
A slight correction, Madonna got permition from Benny and Bjorn to sample 'Gimme gimme gimme' and it was only the second time the have said 'yes'. To all other requests their reply has been 'no, write your own music. We did.'
Thank you so much for your reaction video to this song. Agnetha has often been quoted as saying this was her favorite of all their many hits. Interestingly, it was actually written by Bjorn specifically for Agnetha to sing the lead in. Some people perceived it as being rather mean-spirited as they were going through their painful breakup at the time, but in reality it was actually more cathartic. A couple suggestions for future video reactions, Waterloo (the song that actually put them on the international map), Fernando (in which Anni-Frid sings the lead) and Does Your Mother Know (in which Bjorn sings the lead). Also, probably the best of their live videos would be Gimme Gimme Gimme from Wembley in '79.
500 million records sold worldwide, an award-winning Broadway show, and 2 movies about ABBA. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 10 years ago. When music was great, not like the hip hop, rap crap we have now. You just can't compare.
The amazing, incredible ABBA! This was a very deep song as was many of their hits, but ABBA did have their lighter moments too. "Two For The Price of One" just shot into my head as a prime example, a great song and very much underrated.
I think this song is about processing that she lost her man to another woman and how that makes her feel like a loser and replaceable. But she’s accepting it because she understands that she doesn’t have control over it. I ❤Abba
I watched another documentary and it indicated that Bjorn wrote this song in an hour and gave it to Agnetha to sing. It has been reported that when she read the lyric's for the first time , Agnetha began to cry, because she knew it was about her and Bjorn. Overall, one of my favorite songs.
Fabian it's a privilege and a pleasure to watch your channel for the first time! I have a take on these 4 beautiful people! Do you have any idea how hard it must be to married to two guys who obviously love you but They love their music way more than they love you! Those Are two of the strongest women I've ever seen! And then to perform music that is all about your relationship or breakup or divorce! So sad but so powerful at the same time! Bjorn and Bennie are the greatest hitmakers of my lifetime and they stopped recording as Abba in 1981! Agnetha and Anni-Frid are the most loved vocalists of a band probably ever! This group released there promotional videos for each song long before Music videos even existed! I love this group Fabian as you can probably tell! If you haven't done so you should do a reaction to the two new songs I still have faith in you and Don't let me down! Great job! I'll continue watching!
Abba visited Paris on October 21-22 1980 to appear on the Stars tv show at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent, which was broadcast on October 25. They performed this and Super Trouper there. Please react to The day before you came. It was the last song they recorded. It is beautiful.
That hair look was created by Farrah Fawcett from Charlie's Angels original 70's TV Show. Everybody used it including Madonna in the reaction for Confessions DiscoTribute. 😊
Today this #ABBA reaction is Top 5 in all your videos, in only 10 weeks! +46.000 views! Amazing! (the first four You did in almost a year ago) "The winner takes it all" (ABBA) is the greatest heartbroken song in all times, a Masterpiece! and Agnetha Fältskog did the greatest perfomance and interpretation of all pop music
+50.000 views today ! Amazing! 1) +50.000 The winner takes it all 2) +-31.000 S.O.S. 3) +-23.000 Knowing me knowing you 4) +20.000 Chiquitita 5) +20.000 Dancing Queen 6) +-18.000 Thank you for the music 7) +-16.000 Gimme gimme gimme 8) +14.000 Mamma Mía 9) +13.000 Fernando 10) +12.000 Take a chance on me 11) +11.000 The name of the Game all Your videos of ABBA songs that have more than 10.000 views
The Name of the Game, Voulez-vous and The Winner takes it all - all songs using the analogy of "the game". The first two are about "the games people play" (to quote the Joe South song), while this one is about "the gods" deciding people's fates, gambling with their lives and relationships. The winner comes out on top but has little control over it - it was decided by the gods throwing dice, i.e. chance or fate.
I only started to look at reactions when someone put me onto Dimash. It's great to see some of you young guys discovering music that's ingrained in us. This is one of ABBA's best (and that's a high bar). I sneaked I a preview and you've done 'The Day Before You Came' (the best of all).
One of their later songs, still a great one! It was about the time that Agnetha and Bjorn were divorcing so there was an extra thing with this song. Amazing group, was a child passing outside homes partying with groovy lights and disco balls and i was telling to myself "soon". But times are ever changing so i didn't get to live those moments. Abba though are eternal!
Abba became popular after the eurovision song contest the only one's to go on to greatness because all the others were one hit wonders. Abba are still the only one's to break the mold and are still famous til this day
Always got her pain. It's a great song but I've always thought that Bjorn had no right to make her get up in front of a camera to film this, especially as the divorce was only just gone through.
Well, the fact that she was singing about her own pain made it a heartfelt performance, and going by her comments about it, was also in a way therapeutic or cathartic, because the song was really about what all of them were going through - Benny and Anni-Frid would also divorce shortly thereafter.
7:14 Abba had three more background singers who are not seen in the video They are in the background to the right. Tomas Ledin, Lisa Ohman, and Birgitta Wollgard.
Keep this up and you will quickly become a respected music historian! This was a great song and a great react video. I love that you deep dive into the bands from the past and really form an opinion based on knowledge.
The song is about divorce. Her man has met a new woman and she is the loser. ABBA consisted of two married couples. They had divorced at this time but still performed together. They used the pain of the divorce and break-up to fuel their song-writing creativity in their later years.
Those musicians were not background. Abba had a fantastic band of stellar musicians who made both recordings and live concerts some of the best experiences there were.
If you were ever in love with someone and broken up...this just rips the heart out of you. Even all these years later. Lyrics and her incredible voice and emotion. PS Agnetha's voice and Madonna's... there's no comparison. Agnetha's is so superior.
i saw a special on ABBA. Benny and bjorn went to this island and wrote the music and lyrics and weeks/months later the girls were brought in and worked 5 or 6 hours on each song, to nail the feel. This song is about their breakups... Benny and the dark hair singer were married as were bjorn the and the blonde
The song is so beautiful and it always makes me sad. Don't know if anybody else suggested this but check out Meryl Streep's rendition from the movie "Mamma Mia".
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If you want to see how they performed 100% live in stadium settings, this is a great example:
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You'll enjoy Agnetha shredding it at 01:53
Love your reactions! Just subscribed. Let me see if I can help you with Bjorn and Agnetha's names. You are pronouncing it like Bshorn, when it is really softer as Byorn, one syllable. Agnetha can be pronounced three ways according to her. An-yetta, or Ang-yetta, or Ang-y-etta the last two barely pronouncing the g. In any case, the th just makes a t sound. Keep up the good work man. Love it. Try reacting to Grace Vanderwaal' music. She started on AGT and is incredible.
@@brucethrasher8551 As a swede I must correct you. Björn's name in english is pronounced as it is spelled: Bjorn. The correct swedish pronunciation of Agnetha's name is Angneta, where it's a subtle "N" pronunciation before the letter "G" and the letter "H" is silent.
@@antonwiderberg7571 As I said the name Bjorn is pronounced exactly the way I said. I was not spelling it. I was trying to get an American to say it correctly. One syllable. Just like you said, and just like I said. As far as Agnetha, that came from her mouth, she said any of the three are correct. I did not know how to say it, so I came across an interview where she explains it.
@@brucethrasher8551 I know what interview you're referring to. In that interview she only says "An-ye-tta" because she wants to make it a lot easier for all non native swedish speakers. And in the same interview she says her name in the correct swedish pronunciation, which is Angneta. How can you even question a swedish native speaker regarding a swedish pronunciation? Angneta is the correct pronunciation, ask any swede and they will agree with me.
I'm 63 years of age, I've been luck enough to see ABBA live in Manchester UK in 1977 and this song still, for god's sake, makes me cry every time I see or hear Agnetha perform it. I have a tear in my eye as I type this. For me, Agnetha Faltskog is simply one of the greatest female vocalists of all time. Her emotion runs so unbelievably deep. She's one of those people who only needs one name to know who she is. Like Elvis, the name Agnetha is simply enough. On top of that, she was and remains to this day stunningly beautiful in both mind and body I feel gifted to have had the pleasure of listening to her all these years. I really can't think of anyone else I would say that about.
I saw them in Australia. My favourite band of all time. I've always loved Angetha LOL - an absolute stunner :)
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Me to 63years,I was lucky to see the ABBA MUSIC MOVIE, many times 🌍😃😘
Then i’m not the only one 😢👏🏻👏🏻
I cannot think of a better singer than Floor Jansen to make a cover of this song.
This particular version rips me up and gives me goosebumps still....after all these years. Agnetha’s performance is so raw, because her emotions were so raw, she’s singing her pain as it’s happening, she even tears up a few times, she’s singing her life...it’s about her and Bjorn’s divorce. He wrote it, and she had to sing it..and she is a super trooper, an incredibly courageous woman, because she did, she got up there, and she sang it.
And with that they created one of the hardest songs to cover. No one can match the emotion she puts in this song.
@@bobrezendeassis Yeah it's like she is the only one that can sing it right
I feel kinda bad for her as she had to sing it because she was heartbroken after their divorce and singing about it without crying makes me sad. Agnetha is a really strong woman.
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches Agnetha said: "Björn wrote it about us after the breakdown of our marriage. The fact that he wrote it exactly when we divorced is touching really.
"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."
Virginia - When does she tear up? Or are you just imagining it?
This is the break up song - no victories, and no winners in divorce. When you think that this song was written by her now ex-husband (playing guitar) in a drunken hour or so. Despite the denials that it was strictly about them, he did later admit that when he showed her the song, she cried her eyes out. This is real emotion, real feelings being exposed. Abba had a dark side to much of their music, especially towards the end - a very Scandinavian thing I believe. The new songs, the lyrics reflect all that too. Magical, clever, complex music making and story telling - that on the surface appears so simple. DO NOT COMPARE TO MADONNA!
Exacto!!!
Exactly! The story goes that they gave Agnetha the option of singing backup, but she insisted on singing lead - even though it - according to HER words "stomped on her heart" at the time.
By the way, "the Winner Takes it All" title is completely summed up in the final lyric where she says "no self confidence, but - you see - the winner takes it all."
Abba to this day gives me chill’s and smile to my face, Í was á child when they won theEurovision contest and Í remember it almost like it was yesterday.
The way she phrases “you’ve come to shake my hand” kills me
Every damn time...
Same, I love this song but it brings me to tears
@@lisamareepritchard6375 I agree this is an emotional song but for me personally it is not relatable. I have a very beautiful and strong relationship with my wife. Touchwood.
Now the ABBA song that really scares me is "Slipping through my fingers". I grew up listening to that song and it never bothered me. But now as a father to a 4 year old daughter it scares the sh*t out of me. The looming inevitable. 😒
@@nikhilreddy8550 slipping thru my fingers MAKES ME CRY EVERY TIME
I always get goosebumps whenever she says “does she kiss like I used to kiss you”
There's a reason no one covers this classic, and she's singing!
No one could ever sing this with the raw emotion angetha does, period!
Try Emanne beashas version it is truly beautiful. I came here to find where it came from. No disappointment with either version.
Meryl Streep killed the song in front of Pierce Brosnan in the movie Mamma Mia and I will defend this version as also very good
Mirelle Mathieu has made a cover: Bravo, tu as gagné
@@neojc128 lol
As much as I love Agnetha's original version, Mirelle Mathieu's French cover is even better - it is absolutely amazing. And ABBA sings back up on this cover! Listen here: th-cam.com/video/nm2BY3Os7kk/w-d-xo.html
Man never compare her to maddona,she has more class in a toe than maddona ho ever had
Madonna? Who?
Class. And a FAR FAR better singer.
AMEN BROTHER!!!
You nailed it, Clarence!
Madonna is nothing compares to Agnetha.
They were super stars and massively talented. Back then there was no Auto tune, so what you hear is unadulterated talent. Music now pales in comparison.
I couldn't agree more. Pop Royalty. Can't believe Fabian's (comparatively speaking) only just discovered them. Youngsters these days!!!!!
@@Robbocop I discovered ABBA when I was 9 and now I’m 14 and they are so much better than pop music
Music now is as good as it ever was. You just have to look for it (or just appriciate different qualitys in music)
@@lukapitkanen3333 Music now is shallow, one dimensional drivel. There are precious few musicians these days that can sing without autotune, write actual deep and meaningful lyrics or even play instruments anywhere close to how they were pkayed in the past. If you have a suggestion as to those great modern musici, l am more than happy to be proven wrong.
@@kellyr2681 It would be absurd to say there’s only few musician that can sing or write music when there’s millions of artists working today. But I can suggest a few. I think you want to hear mostly traditional live instruments and no autotune. Check out Fleet Foxes, Destroyer (chinatown is a good song if the band doesn’t show up on search), Fiona Apple, Blood Orange, Angel Olsen. They all have meaningful lyrics too. But if you really want to enjoy music you should open your mind for new things and not be restricted by ideas like autotune=bad. Listen to Beach House, it’s one of my favorite bands all time!
Abba one of the greatest group where every song has meaning and poetry with beautiful voices that combine and sound almost angelic their music is one of a kind and I will forever love them it doesn't get old.
That voice the beauty the group best of all time❤ saw them at Wembley in 77 love them since 74 till now j❤❤❤
For many of us, Abba will always be associated with the best years we had, the 70s. Things were simpler back then. In these times of lockdown, wars, global warming, social unrest this music is peace for the soul. And a lot about our own nostalgia.
The best years were the 60's. But ABBA is great as well
@@philippedevine5124 agreed. Two decades of limitless creativity.
Agnetha is perfection
Written by Bjorn about his divorce from Agnetha, the best divorce song in history.
Try "Walking on a Wire," by Richard & Linda Thompson.
His words and guitar.
Her voice.
Not gonna say it's any better, but it's in the neighborhood.
And he made her sing it which always amazes me, this tells you about their commitment to art.
One of the great voices of pop, also one of the great beauties, Madonna, okay but no Agnetha
@@EaterOfBaconSandwiches I'm sure they would say that to the public, no point airing your dirty laundry in public, it's just too much of a coincidence that he wrote this song the same time they were getting a divorce.
Fact : The song is NOT about the divorce/breakup of them its fiction. said by Benny Andersson
Heartbreak, vulnerability, and acceptance (by the singer) is so masterfully captured in the deep, deep lyrics.
Here's what makes the song even more interesting. The guy playing the guitar in the purple suit was married to the girl singing it. They had just gotten divorced. He wrote the lyrics while drunk, including "tell me, does she kiss, like I used to kiss you", which his ex wife is now singing here.
Her pain in this song is all real.
Yea i knew Bjorn and Agnetha had a relationship but had no clue this song was written in association with their split. WOW
@@FortWorthFabian Bjorn has since denied that it is about them in particular, but make up your own mind!
@@FortWorthFabian Yeah. They'd just got divorced. Then Benny got divorced from Frida. But they still made music for another year or so, but the music got very dark, very deep. The last song, "The Day Before You Came", is a million miles away from Waterloo etc. It's just Benny on a synth, and Agnetha singing about a woman's dull, barely remembered day of boredom. The title suggests that this is before someone came and swept her off her feet, but the music is telling a very different story - one of foreboding and death:
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@@kingstumble Agnetha makes it clear in her interviews that yes, of course it was about their divorce, but that saying "The Winner Takes it All" is kind of sarcastic because, of course, there are no winners.
For years Bjorn denied the song was about his and Agnetha’s divorce, but, in recent years he no longer denies what is plainly obvious. Agnetha has always been pretty clear that the song while not necessarily being a literal interpretation of the breakup with Bjorn, it obviously was influenced by the disintegration of their relationship. I like this performance video, but, I think the official video for the song packs a more emotional punch. To me this song marks a turning point and the beginning of the process of the band dissolving. So, while I recognize it as a stunning piece of music in ABBA’s catalog, at the same time I find it a real sad indicator of how different the energy of the band was from that point on right up till the end.
You have to do, The day before you came, that is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece.
I second that.
This!
That. And The Visitors.
Absolutely.
@@animalfriend6413 Yep
Agnetha has always managed to put her heart into the songs bringing the emotion to the forefront
This song gets me each time. It was playing on the radio when my partner for 15 yrs walked out.
THE HIGH NOTE IS JUST BONE CHILLING
The official video of this is absolutely incredible. In the last section Agnethas' voice "cracks". Gets me every time! Even thinking about it now.... Pure talent these guys, rightfully lauded as GOAT!
It's about her and Bjorn's divorce. He wrote it she sang it.
Such a beautiful song! Great job covering all these ABBA hits!
"Summer Night City" is a strong ABBA song - the bass is cool - great drive
Heavy metal song with a Bach fugue running through it
The bass players name was Rutger Gunnarsson. He played the bass on all ABBA’s recordings. He died april 30th 2015.
Just found your reaction channel and love your reactions to ABBA. I’m 75 years old so I went through this with them! One of my favorite groups!
Thanks for this. It's not her victory, it's the ex's victory and she's just left as the 'loser'.
Don't be so sure. She's said it's her favorite song. Bjorn said he wrote the lyrics while getting stupid drunk. She quit the group because she wanted to devote her time to their children and was getting traumatized by touring (over the top stalking fans and the demands of their performances. Check out the song "I'm a marionette"). Bjorn wanted to continue touring. She quit and got the children. So who won?
he's talking about the song, and is obviously correct. Didn't you listen.
Appreciate you doing so much with Abba reactions. My dad loved Abba and remember driving to Baltimore National Aquarium yearly from Philadelphia listening to Abba...Great music and talent transcend genres.
another great ABBA video is "knowing me knowing you".
Ahah-ah
This is one of the most iconic vocal performances of all time .everything about the music singing and musicianship is top draw. Treasure of the highest quality.
At 9:53 Agnetha lets with her Operatic voice
This song makes me sad, not because of my broken marriage, but because compared to most modern music, the older music was of a much better quality. There’s no comparison. Awesome emotional divorce song.
'My love my life' and 'slipping through my fingers' are also brillint tracks and in a simillar style to this
This is the ultimate break up song ever, you can really feel the pain of the split.
The lyrics are just amazing!
Greetings from Sweden! Glad you liked this song. :)
My mom is swedish. When I was a boy I used to go
fishing with my mom a lot, and she being a huge ABBA fan
she always played ABBA tapes in the car, so I became a fan from an early age.
This song is so beautiful and hauntingly sad at the same time. I believe anyone
can relate to it in a personal way.
So beautiful, I grew up with Abba
hi fabian this is the first time in my life I have ever watched any form of reaction vidios and it wasent until ABBA recorded their 2 new songs,I was born in 1946 and was weened on great music from all over the world such as The Four Seasons ,the Belmonts ,Elvis Beatles Demiss Rouissos and the list goes on and in 1964 I joined the army spending the next 25 years to 1989 loved my life but even we did lots of active service music brought warmth into our hearts and both me and my wife love to dance when ever we had a chance and without a doubt ABBA recorded some of the best music ever some sad but heart warming and the rest brilliant but I have been so impressed by your reactions which stared after about 4 songs I beleave then you was becoming hooked and its so easy with ABBA as their music grows on you and you had a thirst to know more about them and I say well done Fabian home work on going and you are taking part in a historic moment in history which is about to explode with the release of their new album which in the UK 80000 orders have been place by music shops man the world will go crazy never been seen before unlike some who have jumped on the band wagon to build up their subscribers keep up your great work you have my respect Jim Foster now living in Spain
Also, I can't help getting a little choked up at the words in the last verse "and I understand", if you listen very carefully she goes a little sharp and her voice cracks ever so slightly, as she get emotional in that moment herself. Those girls were both wonderful at expressing the emotions as they be felt empathetically.
The whole band were barely old enough to have experienced anything of life, yet so mature beyond their years.
3/4 of them were in their mid 30s, Agnetha 30. Hardly barely old enough to have experienced anything in life.
And write about nature subjects in their second language.
@@OgreProgrammer Agnetha and Bjorn had married, won Eurovision, had two children, toured the world and (separately), Europe and North and South America, sold (at that time, over 100 million records) and divorced so I guess her experiences were pretty limited.
One of my favourites is "The Day Before You Came' - very haunting
Thank God we had them and sad that we never acknowledged them because if you're a 16 year old male in America, they weren't "cool" enough so a lot of us had a secret crush on her, both of them really and now go ask any boomer and we can finally say WE LOVE ABBA! The same for Karen Carpenter, it is the greatest gift to people. Nobody else can claim to make such painfully joyful music.
Voulez vous is a great song!!
The Freddy Mercury comment I loved so much. I'm 61, and Abba is near and dear to my heart... Thanks, truly, for letting them be experienced again!
The original promo video is unbeatable. Gorgeous woman.
Beautiful female voices effect men it's in our DNA
This was a French TV show...
One of their best TV shows was recorded in Switzerland...You'd love Kisses of Fire or Lovers(Live a Little Longer)!!!
Agree 😍😍😍😍😍
A slight correction, Madonna got permition from Benny and Bjorn to sample 'Gimme gimme gimme' and it was only the second time the have said 'yes'. To all other requests their reply has been 'no, write your own music. We did.'
Yes, so it is!
You're spot on with it being a great Queen song. Never thought of it that way.
Bro, Agnetha's facial expressions on the Official Video make us cry!! Please, try The Name of the Game!!! You will get mad!!
Thank you so much for your reaction video to this song. Agnetha has often been quoted as saying this was her favorite of all their many hits. Interestingly, it was actually written by Bjorn specifically for Agnetha to sing the lead in. Some people perceived it as being rather mean-spirited as they were going through their painful breakup at the time, but in reality it was actually more cathartic. A couple suggestions for future video reactions, Waterloo (the song that actually put them on the international map), Fernando (in which Anni-Frid sings the lead) and Does Your Mother Know (in which Bjorn sings the lead). Also, probably the best of their live videos would be Gimme Gimme Gimme from Wembley in '79.
thanks for the comment glad you liked it
I was so very sad when they all divorced. Agnetha was very broken and from her point of view it really felt like she was "the loser standing small".
500 million records sold worldwide, an award-winning Broadway show, and 2 movies about ABBA. Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 10 years ago. When music was great, not like the hip hop, rap crap we have now. You just can't compare.
The amazing, incredible ABBA! This was a very deep song as was many of their hits, but ABBA did have their lighter moments too. "Two For The Price of One" just shot into my head as a prime example, a great song and very much underrated.
There will never be a band like abba again i love them so much thank you abba.
Amazing music group. Swedish masters of creating World class hit songs. The best selling Swedish group of all time. There music Will never die.
I think this song is about processing that she lost her man to another woman and how that makes her feel like a loser and replaceable. But she’s accepting it because she understands that she doesn’t have control over it.
I ❤Abba
Hello from Irving! Glad I found your channel. ABBA is one of my all time favorites.
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I watched another documentary and it indicated that Bjorn wrote this song in an hour and gave it to Agnetha to sing. It has been reported that when she read the lyric's for the first time , Agnetha began to cry, because she knew it was about her and Bjorn. Overall, one of my favorite songs.
Yes I get the queen feel, it’s definitely an operatic ballad
You picked my band so I had to see you react.......I signed up.....I will get a list together for you.
ABBA was, is, and always will be one of the greatest bands of all time.
Yes, only a Freddie Mercury could be trusted not to diminish this masterpiece. ❤️
Thatd be a great cover
Fabian it's a privilege and a pleasure to watch your channel for the first time! I have a take on these 4 beautiful people! Do you have any idea how hard it must be to married to two guys who obviously love you but They love their music way more than they love you! Those Are two of the strongest women I've ever seen! And then to perform music that is all about your relationship or breakup or divorce! So sad but so powerful at the same time! Bjorn and Bennie are the greatest hitmakers of my lifetime and they stopped recording as Abba in 1981! Agnetha and Anni-Frid are the most loved vocalists of a band probably ever! This group released there promotional videos for each song long before Music videos even existed! I love this group Fabian as you can probably tell! If you haven't done so you should do a reaction to the two new songs I still have faith in you and Don't let me down! Great job! I'll continue watching!
don't forget that the last songs of ABBA (until their album comeback in 2021) are two singles recording and released in 1982
Abba visited Paris on October 21-22 1980 to appear on the Stars tv show at the Pavillon Baltard in Nogent, which was broadcast on October 25. They performed this and Super Trouper there. Please react to The day before you came. It was the last song they recorded. It is beautiful.
Amazing song, thanks for the reaction Fabian
That hair look was created by Farrah Fawcett from Charlie's Angels original 70's TV Show. Everybody used it including Madonna in the reaction for Confessions DiscoTribute. 😊
Our Last Summer is always emotional for me!!!
It was filmed for a German show called music express in 1980 and was actully filmed in stocholm ,sweden ..
You should react to ABBA “knowing me knowing you” (one of my favorite ABBA songs) another breakup song but much mor upbeat
The best break-up sang ever made. Simply impossible to cover without pretty much failing...
Today this #ABBA reaction is Top 5 in all your videos, in only 10 weeks! +46.000 views! Amazing! (the first four You did in almost a year ago)
"The winner takes it all" (ABBA)
is the greatest heartbroken song in all times, a Masterpiece!
and Agnetha Fältskog did the greatest perfomance and interpretation of all pop music
+50.000 views today ! Amazing!
1) +50.000 The winner takes it all
2) +-31.000 S.O.S.
3) +-23.000 Knowing me knowing you
4) +20.000 Chiquitita
5) +20.000 Dancing Queen
6) +-18.000 Thank you for the music
7) +-16.000 Gimme gimme gimme
8) +14.000 Mamma Mía
9) +13.000 Fernando
10) +12.000 Take a chance on me
11) +11.000 The name of the Game
all Your videos of ABBA songs that have more than 10.000 views
The Name of the Game, Voulez-vous and The Winner takes it all - all songs using the analogy of "the game". The first two are about "the games people play" (to quote the Joe South song), while this one is about "the gods" deciding people's fates, gambling with their lives and relationships. The winner comes out on top but has little control over it - it was decided by the gods throwing dice, i.e. chance or fate.
The official video is a better visual of the song. You need to listen to The Day Before You Came
Benny is playing the grand piano. Kind of hard to miss 😃
I think Madonna was actually given permission by the ABBA people to sample that riff from "Gimme, Gimme, Gimme".
Yes she did, she send them a handwritten letter along with a demo so they could hear and approve it.
They also have a string section off-camera for this song...; as well as other backup singers, and for many of their songs.
You do great reactions!
I only started to look at reactions when someone put me onto Dimash. It's great to see some of you young guys discovering music that's ingrained in us. This is one of ABBA's best (and that's a high bar). I sneaked I a preview and you've done 'The Day Before You Came' (the best of all).
It's about losing a soulmate! Some how I feel like you could never understand that!
''The gods may throw a dice''...their minds as cold as ice''
God damn!
One of their later songs, still a great one! It was about the time that Agnetha and Bjorn were divorcing so there was an extra thing with this song. Amazing group, was a child passing outside homes partying with groovy lights and disco balls and i was telling to myself "soon". But times are ever changing so i didn't get to live those moments. Abba though are eternal!
You know that their native language is swedish,so really emontial lyrics.I love it.
Your analysis of this song was very insightful.
Abba became popular after the eurovision song contest the only one's to go on to greatness because all the others were one hit wonders. Abba are still the only one's to break the mold and are still famous til this day
Conociendo la historia que hay detrás de ésta canción, se me cae una lágrima, además de la angelical voz. ❤️❤️😶
... Y la valentía de su actuación.💪🏻
Always got her pain. It's a great song but I've always thought that Bjorn had no right to make her get up in front of a camera to film this, especially as the divorce was only just gone through.
Well, the fact that she was singing about her own pain made it a heartfelt performance, and going by her comments about it, was also in a way therapeutic or cathartic, because the song was really about what all of them were going through - Benny and Anni-Frid would also divorce shortly thereafter.
7:14 Abba had three more background singers who are not seen in the video
They are in the background . Tomas Ledin, Lisa Ohman, and Birgitta Wollgard.
7:14 Abba had three more background singers who are not seen in the video
They are in the background to the right.
Tomas Ledin, Lisa Ohman, and Birgitta Wollgard.
It looks to me like it was aired on the ZDF channel in Germany. The show seems to be Kulturnacht (Culture Night).
ABBA music sounds simple but it's very complex and deep .
Keep this up and you will quickly become a respected music historian! This was a great song and a great react video. I love that you deep dive into the bands from the past and really form an opinion based on knowledge.
ABBA perform The Winner Takes it All on "Stars", a French tv show. Broadcast: Saturday, 25 October 1980....it´s that tv show
Ive listened to Abba since the 1980s .solid band.
as far as I know it was a TV show here in Germany. I missed it, no idea what I was doing on that day... :(
This preforming was on tv in Sweden along the Christmas
This was intense! Bjorn wrote the song and she had to perform while standing next to him! Talk about friggin arrogance and gaul!
You can only sing with that level of feeling and emotion if you've been there. Plus having a VERY good voice also helps the whole performance! :D
The song is about divorce. Her man has met a new woman and she is the loser. ABBA consisted of two married couples. They had divorced at this time but still performed together. They used the pain of the divorce and break-up to fuel their song-writing creativity in their later years.
Also I think there's a child involved- the judges will decide
Those musicians were not background. Abba had a fantastic band of stellar musicians who made both recordings and live concerts some of the best experiences there were.
Bjorn write that song for Agneta because they divorced, Agnetha had a great voice , love to hear her sing .
If you were ever in love with someone and broken up...this just rips the heart out of you. Even all these years later. Lyrics and her incredible voice and emotion. PS Agnetha's voice and Madonna's... there's no comparison. Agnetha's is so superior.
i saw a special on ABBA. Benny and bjorn went to this island and wrote the music and lyrics and weeks/months later the girls were brought in and worked 5 or 6 hours on each song, to nail the feel. This song is about their breakups... Benny and the dark hair singer were married as were bjorn the and the blonde
The song is so beautiful and it always makes me sad. Don't know if anybody else suggested this but check out Meryl Streep's rendition from the movie "Mamma Mia".