ABBA Reaction Like an Angel Passing Through My Room | Dereck Reacts
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Hi all welcome back to another video Dereck Reacts back at it again! This time around we take a look at another ABBA song from "The Visitors" album titled "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room." This time around its Frida on vocals going solo. I was unsure what I was listening to at first, but was so involved with Frida and her delivery and this great poetic song of reflection. See my full review now!
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"Like an Angel Passing Through My Room" is the closing track on ABBA's 1981 album The Visitors. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus.
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Frida ... in my humble opinion ... has the most beautiful voice in the world!
Karen Carpenter had, but Frida isn't far from her. 😀👍
A lot of people say Agnetha is able to cry with her voice (They're right!), and I say Frida is able to hug you with her voice (especially with this song)!
You know ever since i bought the album in 1981, every Christmas Eve i wait till everyone has gone to bed and just sit with only the tree lights on and i listen to this ! thats every Christmas Eve for 38 years !!
Beautiful ❤️
Is a very good idea
Me too since 1981, when I was 13.
Wow this is exactly what it is. I'm making a red stained glass Victorian lantern for Christmas inspired by this.
Very inspiring! 💚
Goosebumps. Always loved Frida's voice. It is unique. ❤️💖
"Vocal perfection..!" Frida is an angel. So beautiful, so sad. Haunting. Perfection.
The most beautiful "All" ever sung in history!
Frida is perfect here. This is the only Abba track with just one voice. A Drop Dead Gorgeous Song & Sung To Perfection !!
This and disillusion are the only ones
@@linkey03 Frida joins in parts of Disillusion, starting from “wishing, hoping, chasing shadows” ... “thinking, wondering what you’re doing”. Like An Angel is the only ABBA song with only one voice. Benny and Bjorn have stated this and it is also documented in The Complete Recording Sessions.
@@lounolastname4477 the “frida” you can hear in them parts mate is just Agnetha harmonising with herself in a higher key. Dilsillusion and like an angel passing through my room only feature one vocalist
@@linkey03 that is not true, Frida joins Agnetha in the parts I mentioned. Unless you are calling Benny, Björn and Micke Tretow liars when they say Like An Angel Passing Through My Room is the only ABBA song to feature only 1 voice, as all 3 have stated it in the past
This is one of the most beautiful things ABBA recorded, one of so many hidden gems. As stark and stripped back as it gets, just Frida's ethereal voice, a music box, and the sound of a clock reaching midnight on the mantelpiece of someone's life and stopping. As an angel passes though their room and the embers of a fire die down too, spiriting them away. A dark lullaby that highlights the unsurpassed quality of Benny nd Bjorn's writing, and the expressive warmth and resonance of Frida's soaring voice at its most magnificent. No-one did happy-clappy pop or pant-swinging disco like ABBA, but my god no-one did sad and dark story-telling like them either. Bravo for your sensitive reaction Dereck
The chords and her lower tone it's what makes it so beautifully haunting.
Frida knows how to DELIVER! She makes us all imagine that scene, the fireplace, the darkness, the shadows on the walls. Love this song so much!
Great to hear you enjoying Frida’s voice. Her voice was the depth that added to all ABBA’s songs. It’s a hi-fi voice!
"I let the Musik speak", with Frida, is just amazing too!
This really was ABBA's perfect ending to their last album. Frida's voice is absolutely heartbreakingly beautiful here. It always makes me think of someone either falling asleep or even dying, epecially as the tickking stops at the end, like a clock and time running out.
Not their last album anymore, as technically there are 10 tracks to complete "Opus 10", you just have to take them from the CHESS soundtrack and accept other singers doing 4 of what are ABBA songs. And technically the two Gemini albums are ABBA albums too.
It is sung as a lullabye. Frida instinctively knows how to interpret a song.
I LET THE MUSIC SPEAK is also one of my favorite from Frida’s ...... very theatrical.....
Absolutely!! I LET THE MUSIC SPEAK highlights the perfection of Frida’s voice and shows off their operatic ability!
Frida really shines in The Visitors album, amazing !
@@iaingardiner7360 Fridias vocal on I Let The Music Speak is mindblowing incredible extraordinary
Yes a wonderful song I agree
I think I have not 1 but maybe 50 favorite Abba songs 😅
Frida's voice is absolutely stunning in this song. I guess I always knew there was a strong vibrato there but it just was part of the song. Thanks for mentioning it and making me focus on it.
Frida is a angel! FRIDA passing to my heart!!!
I love this sooo much. Her voice is so beautiful. ❤❤
this is one of the most peaceful songs ever written in my view. From the lyrics to the vocals to the sublime instrumentals. It lowers my blood pressure instantly, lol. Obviously the guys are putting Frida's voice front and center in this song. It almost sounds like she's in an echo chamber. Last song on their last album. What a way to go out.
Frida has amazing vibrato and beautiful dark voice.
This song is so beautiful, reflecting on times gone by, loves come and gone, the memories are the angel, passing through for a brief moment, then gone again. It is beautifully heartbreaking and one of Frida's finest moments. The Visitors album is amazing - you will love it!
I love what you have said x
@@andrewmcdonald6987 Thank you x
Lovely bedtime lullaby from Frida - magnificent!
Dereck. You hit a home run. The Visitors last ABBA album, the group is about to disband, both couples are divorced, all of them are tired of ABBA and the explored new styles The Visitors, the album is dark, sad, however is to me their finest album. I discover The Visitors many years after it was released in 1981. Their happy songs such as Dancing Queen, or Mamma Mia are long gone here, however they have mature in their music. Like an Angel Passing Through My Room is the last track on this album. I think. Closing a full circle on their music. Bravo!!! Amazing reaction. Look at the album cover you will notice other bits of clues on their last days as a group.
Not their last album
Anni-Frid Lyngstad is an astounding interpretative mezzosoprano singer that along with soprano voiced Agnetha Fältskog they could couple each other perfectly. Listen to Frida on Our Last Summer, Put on Your White Sombrero, Knowing Me Knowing You, Should I Laugh or Cry, Me And I, I Have a Dream, Andante Andante, all longing, dramatic and emotion filled performances. And she's got a wild rock edge too! She even turns Money Money Money into a mini Broadway musical in itself!
She was the one who chose Fernando for her Svenska album, later in English and she had continually showed a great taste in her performances doing David Bowie, 10cc, Beach Boys cover versions.
Surprisingly fluid singing in Spanish, Frida must be heard in Swedish as well, thus Som En Sparv, Vill Du Låna En Man, Man Vill Ju Leva Lite Dessemellan...
It's evident that she's totally right when she sings I Let the Music Speak!
Frida..... Sooo underrated😤 has always been my favourite Abba member😜🤗💖
I Wonder (Departure) so reflective of when I had to leave my small Yorkshire village and move to a big city😵😩 I was only 17 at the time (1978)but I knew the significance of this song the moment I heard it and it had me in tears😪😭
🇬🇧😷💖
Like an Angel Passing Through My Room is sheer beauty and Frida's voice does shine. It gives me shivers especially when she hits those kind of operatic notes towards the end of the song. If you want to hear more of Frida's shining voice please react to I Wonder (Departure), Andante Andante, Our Last Summer, I Let the Music Speak. Also, please react to En Ledig Dag, live version. You will be amazed at what she can do with her voice.
Every Time when I‘m listen to this, it brought me to tears. It‘s so emotional.
Gorgeous!! Frida so underrated imo
That truly is a gorgeous vocal at 5:40, with the subtle chord changes underneath. Love how the video fades in that one word, "All", on screen at that moment. It shows how much beauty ABBA could pack into even a _single word, a single note_ , with only minimal accompaniment. Astonishing.
Frida has a natural gift for singing those inflections. This song sits so perfectly with her voice. There were many arrangements of the song, some uptempo but IMO they chose the best one. Very atmospheric and the same as The Day Before You Came, there is a mystery as to what the song is really about. Most ABBA songs deliver the storyline very strongly, but this one is open to interpretation. Frida really shines. It shows the depth of her talent and her personality.
The Day Before You Came was Agnetha, sorry to nitpick as such, but very important for the discussion. It showed off her wonderful lower register, same as The Winner Takes it All. Both her and Frida were wonderful. Fernando was esp a Frida classic.
@@suziejane1008 I know TDBYC was Agnetha on lead vocal. If you re-read my post you will see that in the context I was comparing LAAPTMR and TDBYC as both being mysterious, not saying they had the same vocalist.
@@suziejane1008 'Cassandra' is even MORE a Frida classic, and likely ABBA at their most tragic!
The song seems to be about looking back on life and getting away from the frantic business of it all.
If you liked Frida's voice in this song then you should react to her singing " I WONDER (DEPARTURE) ... a masterpiece
The live version is stunning also!
@@synchronicityman9062 The 'live' version is the better one than the album recording. The live version had to have studio redubs because the sound quality was variable from the concerts.
Frida's contribution to ABBA has always been shadowed by Agnetha it seems.....and sadly. I adore Frida and her voice is magical. Of course Agnetha is amazing, they both helped shape one of the most influential bands of all time.
@@vad8712 I think they were both extraordinary and both respected. They sang an equal number of solos, and blended their voices magically on choruses and backing tracks - Like An Angel Passing Through My Room is, in fact, the only Abba song that featured just one singer throughout.
@@vad8712 I always had the feeling that Frida was pushed too much into the background at the beginning of the ABBA period. Her warm voice is existential for ABBA in my opinion, and at the end of the ABBA period she had several hits in which she was the lead singer. In my opinion, you always needed at least 100%. Still a great, interesting woman today. She has always been my secret favorite ABBA member. From the beginning.
A real gem of a song,stunning!!
I let the music speak and I wonder also show Frida's lyrical and wonderful voice, certainly the best vocalist of the group, the vocal variety and technique are impeccable!
Amazing track, superb vocals by Frida. Tnx for you great reaction!
The guys wrote amazing songs and the ladies sang them so well
So calmly and solemn song..frida lead the vocals...ticking of clock is the sound intro...lovely...💖💙💛 It is just like that you were in a church like pavilion ...💖💙💛
Check out her amazing lead vocals on The Visitors and Should I laugh Or Cry
@Watchflex Watchflex, The Visitors: a Cold War master pience and yet another Abba song that just might surprise good ol' Dereck.
Agree. Please,Please React to both of those songs!
‘Should I laugh or cry’ has some of the most clever lyrics from ABBA
Should I Laugh or Cry is such a great song. They had about 5 tracks ready for that "last" album that never arrived. Too bad it was never completed. The Visitors is my favourite ABBA album.
I find Frida's voice to be very seductive, she draws you in & takes you with her. Not many can do that.
The best song! Love Frida on this track. Amazing
Wonderful Frida🥰
La voz maravillosa de Frida puede cantar cualquier estilo musical…
It is indeed a beautiful song, and Frida's delivery of it is indeed vocal perfection. It's the only ABBA song with just one vocalist, and she and Benny recorded it alone in the studio soon after their divorce so it was very personal and poignant for her. She had a classical singing voice which she used to good measure at various stages of her career. You can also hear this on 'I Let The Music Speak' another musical masterpiece on The Visitors album. But you really should check out the synth-pop classic that is the title track. I think it'll be right up your street, Dereck. There's a lyric video available for that one too which you will probably need as the lyrics are deep and cryptic!!
No Abba song was ever recorded without the 2 men being there.
Not according to Frida. LOL- 'We were the only two, Benny and I, in the studio alone with the tic-tic of the metronome sound'.
@@rf6724 Not to be overly critical, but ABBA's Spanish language album "Gracias Por La Musica" was recorded in early 1980 without B & B being present. B & B had gone on a songwriting getaway (to Barbados if I remember rightly). So, using original backing tracks of their chosen songs, Agnetha & Frida recorded this album with Michael Tretow in charge, plus their Spanish translator who was friendly with the band.
Actually I can't hear Frida AT ALL in 'My Love, My Life', which is very worrying. I hear Bjorn in it in the far background; otherwise it's just Agnetha backing herself. Please tell me I'm wrong, but if you listen fully, you'll struggle to find her at all. I also find it weird that Agnetha's called out for 'When I Kissed The Teacher' when all I hear in the verses is Frida double-tracked, and then when it gets to the "One of these days..." refrain, that's where you hear Agnetha double-tracked. And why shouldn't Frida be on a lot of this song, after all, Agnetha whisper repeats the 2nd verse of 'Knowing Me, Knowing You'!
Dereck, it is clear from your reactions that music moves you deeply. That's a wonderful gift. It's great to watch. My interpretation of this song is memories. It reminds me of my younger sister who passed away 10 years ago. The music box was her youth, her purity, her character. I can imagine sitting near the fire place, watching memories of our childhood go by. Beautiful song. 'I Let the Music Speak' is a definite recommendation, and 'Should I Laugh or Cry.'
played this at my partners memorial service 25 yrs ago. reverberating through a tiny beautiful chapel covered in gold mosaic. still makes me emotional lisiting to it
Absolutely heartbreaking. But such a beautiful and appropriate gesture you made.
MY ABSOLUTE FAVE VOCAL FROM ANNI-FRID. SILKY SMOOTH VOICE, SUNG WITH SUCH EMOTION, IT HURTS. I CRY EVERYTIME WHEN THE VISITORS ALBUM ENDS WITH THIS TRACK 💘💘💘💘
Such a beautiful song, so peaceful. Frida's voice is perfection. React on I let the music speak, please!
Props and Kudos to Björn for this enigmatic lyrics. Such a one of a kind song.
I always loved Frida's voice - outstanding !! Dreck you're got a talent, you see the key in the songs - that's so wonderful, and you're right,
ABBA did not only "sing" the songs, they telling stories, and they feel the songs and go through it.
Really a grrreat reaction, Dereck,...can't wait for the next...
This song is very poignant. Benny and Frida were alone in the studio at 3am and recorded together. They had just completed their divorce and he was expecting a baby with another woman and I think he just got remarried. This song is very special.
Where you there?🙂😏
Peter Rhyner just a big ABBA fan.
@@Destinyslotus That could be kind of true, but 90% of what Abba-fans tell people on TH-cam are wild speculations and (often severe) misunderstandings, presented as facts.
WTF? why are you going after Samantha? She is absolutely right in what she said, and before anyone asks, no...I wasn’t there either. But the people that were there left meticulous notes and details. Check out Carl Magnus Palm. The details Samantha sparks of were published in several of his books
Amazing voice. Like a lullaby.
Goosebumps! I haven’t heard that in years! 💖Frieda’s vocals were so underused in solo in my opinion!
Frida is my favourite singer, her voice is so versatile. Please react to Put on your white sombrero
It' one of those songs that reaches in and tugs at your soul :-)
They recorded many versions of this. Some with a more traditional ABBA sound and finally decided on this simple version recorded with just Benny and Frida in the studio. One of my favourite ABBA songs.
Frida’s masterpiece
I also saw Like An Angel Passing Through My Room as a lullaby. If you're impressed by Fridias vocal on this track, you should hear her vocal on another track from The Visitors album called I Let The Music Speak, Fridias vocal is just mindblowing. The first track on The Visitors album which is the title track sees Fridia on lead vocal also, alone safe in the house but she is threatened and terrified by an external force invading her home; in contrast Like A Angel Passing Through My Room (last track on the original The Visitors album without the bonus tracks attached on the remastered cd version) again sees Fridia alone in the house except this time she's at peace falling asleep in front on the fire, I always felt the contrasts were deliberate.
Beautiful song. The Visitors album is a masterpiece. Listen to it from start to finish... the original 10 songs (ignore the bonus tracks for now)... its magnificent.
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My favourite ABBA album. (Could have done without "Two For the Price of One" though.
It's kind of fun but not up to the standards of the rest of the album.
@@mgbchoralmusic6443 I think it's great, but the jokey gotcha ending could have been done differently, incorporated in a different way. One of my fav sounds to come out from them melody wise.
The ticking clock continues after the music fades, then it just stops. Very fitting since this was the final song on ABBA's final studio album. Now you should listen to the first song on the album, The Visitors.
I let the music speak final track..
I like it when Frida gets a chance to shine. So many of their better known songs either throw a spotlight on Agnetha or on their harmonizing that it feels like she's a little overlooked as an equally talented performer sometimes. This isn't a song I'd want to play often, as it's so sad. But when you're in that mood & you want sad or contemplative songs while you're thinking, this is a great one to include.
Beatiful Abba!!!!
Just 2 years ago, at my lowest ebb, this was the song I'd planned to 'sing me to sleep' - I'd planned my suicide. The 'peace' & 'tranquility' you spoke of, was exactly it. Something after all the pain, that would sooth, as I gradually slipped away. Needless to say, as I've just finished almost 2 years of therapy, I lived to tell the tale.
ABBA were a long way by this point, from the celebration of youth that is Dancing Queen. This is the introspection of middle age, but how wonderful is it that it's an introspection with some calm, & warmth (whilst never denying the pain).
ABBA get plenty of credit, but it can never be enough.
Great reaction; thank you! I'd highly recommend "The Visitors" title track for more Frida vocal genius!
First time I heard this one. It reminds me of my dad the last years. He lived as much in the past as in the present. Old precious memories passed him by like old friends. Or as an angel? Beautiful.
An ABBA masterpiece.
5:21 When the beauty of her voice and the words smack him in his soul. That look on his face, I just want to reach out and hug him and say "I know".
I bought this album on the day it was released. The final song on the final studio album. The final chapter - stunning and beautiful now, just as it was the first time I heard it. ❤️
This is a fabulous song off a fabulous album. You should listen to Djupa andetag (Deep Breaths). Frida knocks that album out of the ball park. In particular Ögonen (The Eyes) , áven en blomma (Even A Flower), Sista valsen med dig (Last Waltz with You).... These 3 songs are fabulous in any language. Yes it is Swedish but you do not care when you hear her. You will be quite impressed.
That is such a good album!
Yes! Do Djupa Andetag!!!
I love your vision of the song and Frida is excellent... you should listen to "I Let The Music Speak" from the same album "The Visitors", also with Frida on lead vocals where her vocals is at its peak of perfection!
Frida did a good job in the delivery; Benny and Bjorn did a good job in writing this song.
Another great song from Frida is definitely I WONDER .....it’s a very underrated song from ABBA. A very nice ballad. Frida at her best!
Great insight Derek. Their lyrics have meaning on many levels. Give ‘Move On’; ‘Cassandra’; ‘Should I laugh or cry’ a listen (among so many others I could recommend). Cheers matey for a great reaction 👍🏻
Last song recorded by pop royalty ABBA at that time ( we currently awAit their new songs).
Benny and Frida alone in the studio.
One of the most beutiful songs of all time. I want it played at my funeral -just to make more people hear it😃
Derek YOU ARE SPOT ON WITH THIS!! FRIDA!! XXOO
I suggest you listen to the full original The Visitors album! It’s a masterpiece! Frida’s voice shines throughout the album. I Let the Music Speak and the title track are probably the best examples of that. Other great ABBA songs with Frida lead vocals are Andante Andante and I Wonder (the live version!). You’ll be amazed by what she can do with her voice! And she has such a unique sound!
I didn't appreciate Frida's voice enough when I was young but I do now very much!
Incredibly wonderful 💗❤️
This song, Dereck is one I like listening to with headphones on and close my eyes and find it reflective, dreamlike and it takes you to another place.
One of Frida's best lead vocals. Check out "Me & I" from the Super Trouper album. You'll enjoy the synths.
If you are truly a fan of Frida, you must watch this video and react to it. I have never seen a reaction to this. The video is from 1967, five years before ABBA. It really shows off her vocal range unlike any ABBA video I have seen. This video is after Frida has won a singing contest it and has a short interview, in Swedish with English subtitles. You will notice that toward the end of the interview Frida appears to be getting a little angry at the interviewer,s insistence on talking about her children and if they were interfering with her singing career. The song is, "En ledig dag" th-cam.com/video/xHUGxTvkKis/w-d-xo.html
I was going to suggest that video. She hits some great notes in the song and her high notes at the end are amazing.
This is just greatness. The first time I watched this video that's when I was convinced that Frida has a truly amazing voice and that her voice was not used to its full advantage during her ABBA years.
This song is so beautiful, but at the same time it embrace us in a little sadness, it's like the night of the last show, remembering the long past great and funny moments, now gone, suffocating by a longing feeling. Everything is history...
ABBA UNIQUE IN THE WIRLD. WONDERFUL ALL MUSIC.. I LOVE YOU ABBA.
ABBA s ballads are very enigmatic. They are uniquely sad. Even the eyes on Agnieta they are sad . Beautifully sad . That is Abba.
I loved listening to this song as a 7 year old boy nearly 40 years ago, and I'm happy to notice that it can still capture new listeners so many years later 🙂👍
Great reaction Dereck, good to see that Frida’s voice is starting to take hold of you ☺️ once you start to feel her brilliance she stays with you for ever. Some great “react” suggestions from others on here, and also check out some of her solo work particularly from Djupa Andetag, it’s not in English but it doesn’t matter because it’s so seductive and beautiful. ‘Sista valsen med dig” (“last waltz with you”) is my recommendation, Frida at her absolute gorgeous best 😍
And 'Aven En Blomma' is stunning, with an equally good video!
Synchronicity Man yes it is 👍 There’s so many to choose from. ‘Lycka’ from her pre-Abba days stands out... you could listen to Frida all day
The whole of "The Visitors" carries a definite dark theme (like a nordic noir novel in music form). It came at the end of ABBA, when both couples had divorced, which is clearly evident in the lyrics. It's my favourite ABBA album by far, and still gets listened to regularly.
Goosebumps 😍😍😍
This is one of my favorite ABBA songs. And its the only one that ever brought me to tears and actually still does. So, seeing your reaction video was very interesting as you have mentioned lots of things, that I totally agree with. To me it is the song where music and lyrics truly became one. And Frida did a tremendous job on this.
So beautiful almost like you could sing it like a lullaby. Please do "I Let The Music Speak" very poetic :)
Madonna made a version of this song during her Music era i think or was it ray of light but for sure she's a big ABBA fan even before she begged them for hung up. Ironically she said that the band were boring during one of her interviews with a Swedish television in the early 90s
Madonna should feel regret what she has said about ABBA's music.
Typical Madonna. I think it's a typical narcissistic streak of her. And so unnecessary to do. She could have expressed her appreciation better than belittling the other. It only makes her smaller. And if she has nothing positive to say, she should have kept quiet.
@@dragpalace but a decade later she begged them for sampling gimme gimme, she wrote them a letter telling them how much she was influenced by their music. She also donned the iconic costume of ABBAs 1979 tour on one of the leg of her own confessions in the dancefloor tour
Whether she meant it or not, it was Madonna being 'edgy'. Edgy, but not exactly controversial. ABBA had long been the target of 'serious music' journalists and those who regarded them as 'cheesy' or 'lightweight'. By the late 1980's, they were long gone and seemed to have been forgotten by all but the hardcore fans. So maybe she thought she was on safe ground. History has shown that Madonna's jibe was not only nothing new but badly timed. Soon after, Erasure's tribute EP would kick off the ABBA 'revival'. Revival is probably the wrong word as revivals are all too often a short lived fad. Nearly thirty years later, it's more like a reaffirmation of what a great band they were/are.
Dereck, if you want to hear a song where Frida's voice comes through beautifully and with much less studio treatment, listen to "The King Has Lost His Crown" from the Voulez-Vous album. It's divine.
Like the embers as they die, love was one prolonged goodbye
Definitely check out Frida's Djupa andetag album. Her last full studio album. The song choices and production fit her sultry voice beautifully. And plenty of videos for it including a documentary on its making that reveals the person behind the voice more intimately than any of the thousand superficial interviews she and ABBA were subjected to.
Sou muito fã de frida amo a voz dela ela tem doçura na voz.❤🌹👏👏👏👏
This is beautiful, but way. way. way too short. I wanted this song to go on alot longer. Incredible lyrics and vocals.
This is pure mood music. The theme of the song I believe bothers on the wistful coming to terms with the loss of a once meaningful but mysterious romance which she likens to an angel passing through her room.
Angels are superior and mysterious beings whose interactions with mortals can only be possible on a higher cosmic, spiritual mental plane. Brief but beautiful when they visit. I think Bjorn as a lyricist has always had an inclination towards religious or superstition beliefs which he hides so well. In the song The winner takes it all, he wrote about "The gods may throw a dice.....and someone way down here loses someone dear. That means he is trying to say that the actions of the gods above determine our fate or destiny down here! There's a hit song of theirs called I have a dream which conjures up images of angels... Let's not forget that in the song "Waterloo" Bjorn convinced that Napoleon's defeat was something fated he told us same was true of falling in love. A destiny and not a choice or an ambition or even desire.
Like an angel passing through my room is another example of Bjorn's attempt at setting Poetry to Music just as they did in I Let the Music Speak assuming he alone was the sole writer of the song's lyric
This song will be better appreciated by those who love poetry. The meaning of the song is deep. Full of imagery and metaphors and clever play at words. " Dying embers warm my face (death is cold how can it heat you up?) "..... Now and Then becomes entwined playing games within my mind like the embers as they die".... What effect does he want to achieve by juxtaposing ephemeral feelings with something concrete and permanent as death?
The other song, the single that became the title of the album as well "The Visitors " is also another work of poetry set to music. The true meaning of the song is always buried under the covers of metaphors and imagery.....
If you love Frida's voice, you'd like the Visitor's title track.
Hi Dereck 👋✨😃
Thanks for reviewing this song.
I wish to suggest that you listen to this song all the way through to the end for full-effect, in regards to my interpretation...
After my wonderful parents both passed away in 2012, I ended up getting a new perspective with this son (after the original comfy interpretation from back in 1981). And my revised interpretation was emphasised after my partner of 25 years passed away two years ago.
The change was that I now interpret Björn's lyric to be about someone experiencing their own passing.
From the start, "Long-awaited darkness falls" now equates to that situation when some ill and/or elderly people sense that they are soon to die. "Ev'ry thing comes back to me" and "seeing long-forgotten scenes" to me is like when people talk about their life passing before their eye if they experienced nearly died, also conveyed through the narrator's mind's confusion of: "So the present runs into the past/ now and then become entwined/playing games within my mind".
"Like the embers as they die/love was one prolonged goodbye" is a great metaphor, and one that I totally understand sing the passing of those three important loves of my life.
Now, here is why I asked if you could please listen through to the end. Where Frida sings the last-note, that fades into the music box, that fades into just the "tick-tock"; that's where I imagine the narrator slowly passing away, then the final "tock" is when they've actually died and/or have gone to the afterlife/heaven.
For me, it's as though this song could have been a forerunner to the 'emo' and 'goth' genres, using 'Nordic Noir' as it's called.
Gorgeous!!!
The best group ever!!!!!!!
This song will play at my funeral
It's true, there's a sort of darkness to "The Visitors". You can hear that this is their final studio album. You should react to "Should I Laugh or Cry", but then even "Two for the Price of One", which is much lighter. Please also react to more songs from "Super Trouper", like "Me and I", "The Piper" and "Like Old Friends Do". Love your videos. Keep up the good work :-)