ABBA - 'Winner Takes It All' Reaction! When a Breakup Feels Like You Have Lost Everything!
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"The Winner Takes It All" is one of ABBA's most famous songs, released in 1980 as part of their "Super Trouper" album. It was written by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, the male members of the band, and the lead vocals were performed by Agnetha Fältskog, one of the female members.
The song is known for its emotional depth and introspective lyrics, which tell the story of a breakup from the perspective of the person who feels they've lost everything. It's often interpreted as a reflection on the real-life divorce between Björn Ulvaeus and Agnetha Fältskog, although both have stated that the song's lyrics are not directly autobiographical.
"The Winner Takes It All" has been praised for its powerful melody and poignant lyrics, and it became one of ABBA's biggest hits, reaching the top of the charts in several countries. It's since become one of their most enduring and beloved songs, frequently covered by other artists and featured in various films, TV shows, and musicals. 
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Do you know how great a song this is? To sing a song so personal that represents your life is great and heartbreaking at the same time
Just so much talent ❤ no music like this anymore 😢
Fleetwood Mac Rumors did a whole album about the relationships
@@deantait8326 I remember another ground breaking album
Before auto tune when people actually could sing. ❤
This is so much harder to take, when you hear the guys wrote the music and lyrics, from their own perspective, and just expected the girls to sing them. No matter how close to home they were. This was about her divorce from Bjorn, their kids were still young, and here she is singing about it to the world. So difficult, and still done so well.
It’s like Fleetwood with kids involved smh
The two couples were about to divorce. The singer's husband who is on guitar wrote the song for her so you can imagine the pain of every word. To hear more of Freda the other lead singer check out Fernando and Knowing Me Knowing You
No. Björn was supposed to sing this song, but FOR COMMERCIAL REASONS they decided it would be better if Agnetha sang it.
I rather think it was for artistic reasons . I do not think a man is lead on any of their songs. Impressive to make it
@@eirikasbjrnberg8753the song "Does your mother know?" Björn is lead vocals.
Such a sad song. What a performance. Annetta’s voice so clear and beautiful.
It's Agnetha...Great song.
@glenn20081965 spelling yes but in an interview she pronounces her name. The phonetics were very close to how they are spelling it in their comment, so a matter of perspective.
@@glenn20081965 I remember back in 1978 a magazine cover with her on and underneath written "Aniette",lol.,,,'but you can call me Anna -if it's hard to pronounce",.
What I’ve always been impressed with when it comes to ABBA is how well the songs are written lyrically. English is not their first language, yet their songs rhyme exactly where they should, and their songs tell stories. They are 100% fluent in a language that they weren’t raised with. That’s pretty amazing.
English was taught in school as a second language, as it was/is in several European countries.
As a life-long rock nut,my guilty pleasure has always been ABBA.
Fave being Waterloo.
Their tunes are SO catchy and infectious,you can’t help tapping your feet and even singing along.
I need therapy now after that confession!
Wait till you read the disarmingly emotional confessions about their ABBA love as told by Bono in 2023,Brian Eno(2010),David Grohl(who confessed he sobbed while listening to Abba's new songs,2021) and Richie Blackmoore's deep respectful words on the Swedes.It's a feeling they couldn't fight back.They had gotten hooked on them for good.
The greatest song ever made about a divorce ! Just think Agnetha was singing it shortly after her own divorce. Guess who had been her husband? Bjōrn, the guy with the guitar who's playing and singing right next to her. Moreover, he is the author of the heartbreaking lyrics she's singing. By the way, after a little more time the two other members (Frida and Benny) will also divorce.
What a Gut wrenching Song done so well !
Metal head here who loves ABBA.
There's a whole army of such fans that join you,,,,either openly or even secretly.
What a vocal. What a break up song. What a piano player. Over 100 million records sold around the world.
AT this Time Abba records sales officialy IS over 400 millions 🎉
@@alainbrunetti9012 Officialy!
The name ABBA comes from the first initials of the four members - (Agnetha and Björn), (Benny and Anni-Frid),
Check out more ABBA - Does Your Mother Know - SOS - Waterloo - Knowing Me Knowing You - Fernando - Mama Mia - Take a Chance on Me - Chiquitita ...... and many many more, remember that the style etc.....was 70's Way before MTV
They had a few personal song, both couples met got together and got married, after a few years of touring and having some difficulties both couple broke up and divorced, but still remained a group!
Same as the couples in Fleetwood Mac, seems like couples in bands breaking up but staying together makes for some good music!
I'll go with Take a Chance on me
This is the break up song ever
Check out " Chiquitita" by ABBA, one of the greatest happy sad song of all times, with a pretty strange music video🙂
The live version "abba i concert" is a masterpiece.
Tha spanish version is GOAT in LatinAmerica, best selling single ever , by an artist from Sweden that's odd.
Agnetha has such a great voice! One of the best sad love songs ever made! dbl ♥
This is Literally the End. It was written by Bjorn for Agnetha to sing during their divorce. Those words were real. 💔💔
This is generally regarded as the "breakup song" about Agnetha (lead singer) and Bjorn's (guitar player) divorce. Bjorn wrote it and showed it to Agnetha, who reportedly started crying when she read the lyrics. Now, I don't know that I would be willing or able to sing lead vocals on a song that my ex wrote that pretty much described our breakup, but she did, and she nailed it, and you can definitely see the emotions in her eyes and on her face... they were real. Now, the other couple, Benny (piano player) and and Anni-Frid (Frida), divorced a bit later, and Frida sings lead vocals on what is regarded as their breakup song, "When All Is Said and Done", and that was another hit single for the group. The funny thing is, ABBA's best breakup song is one that they wrote and sang before either couple split up. It is called "Knowing Me, Knowing You".... and features vocals from both women and backing vocals from both guys, and the lyrics just seemed to foreshadow what was eventually going to happen just a few years later.
The bass line is fantastic. Her voice and the brilliance of the song sometimes overshadow it
Mike Watson on the bass.
This song always brought me to tears. And only a few years ago, I watched a documentary about ABBA, and heard the story about this song. And now I understand this song better!!!
My favorite ABBA song.
ABBA in the begining two swedish couples, meet inb1969:
Agnetha (blonde singer) &
Björn (guitarist songwriter)
Benny (pianist songwriter) &
Anni Frida (brunette singer)
Agnetha & Björn married in 1971, with two Young childrens
Benny and Frida married in 1978, withouth own childrens
both couples separated before the breakup of ABBA in 1982:
Agnetha & Björn at end of 1978
Benny & Frida at begin 1981
"The winner takes it all" (1980)
is one of the Best Songs by ABBA
and the Most sad and emotional too
The best lyrics by the guitarist Björn
and the greatest performing with the amazing Interpretation
of
the blonde singer Agnetha Fältskog and her soprano voice
The lyrics is a fiction about a divorce,
it is not about Their real life,
although it is obviously influenced by Their own experiences
and the realization of the legal divorce between Agnetha & Björn in the middle of 1980,
even though They were no longer a couple or lived together more than a year and half ago, at the end of 1978
In fact, the song was more nearly in time to the split of Benny & Frida as a couple, only a few months later
"The winner takes it all"
return ABBA to the Top of the charts,
gives their eighth #1 in UK after almost two years and half
Also was the fourth and last Top10 to ABBA in U.S (pick at #8 in 1981)
, and #1 in US Adult Contemporary too
"The winner takes it all"
was voted the Best ABBA song by the British fans,
and is the favourite ABBA song to the blonde singer Agnetha
and now in the new Voyage concerts at London that begins exactly one year before, the encore song is...
"The winner takes it all"
ABBA have more than 20 worldwide hits,
Their biggest Is "Dancing Queen" (1976)
Their first worldwide hit was "Waterloo" (1974) when ABBA win the classic Eurovisión Song Contest in Brighton UK
(last April 6 was their 50th Anniversary and still now are homenages to ABBA all over Europe, specialy in Sweden and UK, and probably in Eurovisión)
My next suggestion is songs with the brunette singer Frida in lead voice
"Super Trouper" (the same outfits, the same album, the same TV perfomance in Germany 1980)
or 'Fernando" & "Money money money" (both 1976)
I wish to You a nice week
my best regards from
Buenos Aires , Argentina 🇦🇷
South America
Many of ABBA's best songs were never released as singles. 'Andante Andante' and 'Slipping Through My Fingers' spring to mind immediately.
Like An Angel Passing Through My Room 🤗👌
They all treat eachother so well. They always did. So when they (both couples) got divorced. Nobody could tell the difference. This is one of those heartbreaking songs that you just love. I loved it when it came out and do to this day.
Abba was another great vocal group from the 70s but like The Bee Gees there was a danger in saying you liked them. I was in Jr High when they hit it big in the USA in 1976 with Dancing Queen. Admitting that you liked these 2 groups would get you beat up, especially if you were into rock. Disco was heating up and it was met with violent resistance. I’ll never forget the fights, especially if a guy was backing these groups. The girls could get away with it! The guys, not a chance!! I can admit it now I always liked them and my mom had the albums, she played them a lot!
Their song "Waterloo" has always been the guilty pleasure of this hard core rocker.
ABBA 1970's easy listening. 🎶
Very powerful lyrics .... "does it feel the same ... when she calls your name?" YIKES!
one of the Worlds greatest Soprano Singers.Near the end she hits a double F 5 for a total of 14 seconds,Thats World Class ,
their songs have put my heart back together on many levels. 🥰
U plus some millions more.....
In GB this one has been voted as their best song. They had a few number 1-songs after this one aswell in the world - for example One Of Us. ABBA is inspired from many musicgenres - some Americans beleive they where a discoband (cause of their own history) but that’s not true, actually less than 10 % of the songs is in that genre. ABBA is maybe the most diversity band ever. Cheers! 🎉
Excaxtly.Abba released more than 100 songs as a band.Only 9 of them were disco genre.And i can name them one by one.
One of us was only number three in GB
@@Urfinchannel Unfortunately sales of the last week of '81 in UK weren't published.So we wouldn't really know the single's possible course.The week before , they it was no3 and no2 was Cliff Richard's 'Daddy's home" and no1 The Human League with 'Don't U want me?" a song (that as was revealed some decades later on,) its main synth riff was Abba vibed by the Benny's main keyboard line to their '77 prog anthem ''Eagle".Btw I remember the time i had been briefly in W.Germany with my uncle in late 1981.OOU was no1 there and Abba had 2 no1 albums both great sellers. One was 'A Wie Abba" (a continental release) and of course 'The Visitors" that he had also bought from there in cassete formats and we listened in the car on our way back home.
@@Urfinchannel One of Us was Abba's last major hit song (before their comeback) and their last single in many countries. It topped the charts in Ireland, Belgium, West Germany and the Netherlands and reached number three in Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and as you wrote the UK. It also placed among the top 10 in South Africa, Norway, Spain and France.
Thank you for another great video/reaction. Both female singers in ABBA had great voices which complimented each other well so sometimes they both did lead vocals & other times either one of them could be lead and the other in the background, usually with the guys singing background a bit too. If you want to hear a song where one of the guys (Bjorn) is more the lead - try watching/listening to "Does your Mother Know". A couple of the best where Frida (brunette female) is singing lead try: "Knowing me, Knowing you" or "Money, Money, Money".
A group of two couples who has all the fame and fortune in the world thrown at them... glad that we have as many songs as we do. BTW, Frida is actually Norwegian and German. I heard that Agatha never learned English, but sang phonetically.
the blonde girl with soprano voice Is Agnetha
she could understand sing and speak english,
because she learn it in swedish school,
but not so well (in her own words)
If you like the feeling of being a grown upp man with teary eyes, then you could listen to their "Chiquitita". Greetings from Sweden!
Yes,it was Job.
ABBA is the first letter of each of their names. They are the greatest pop band ever
Yes, Olliwood..it was Job. great analogy!
Her ex- husband who wrote the song stands beside her with the guittar. They were divorsed by then. ❤
Best Band Ever
Great guys, very good reaction, this song is Agnetha's (the blonde) favorite, because they wrote it about their breakup at that time, now please react to Mamma mia!, it's a great song.
Untouchable harmonies, right up there with the Beach Boys imo
Benny is a self acclaimed huuuuge Beach Boys/B.Wilson fan.
For my taste (and regarding mixed male/female vocalizing bands) i could easily pick The Mamas and the Papas as a supreme harmonizing team close to ABBA.Esp. Cass and Michelle who sounded heavenly when they blended their voices.Yet ABBA is my favourable top choice ever.
The blonde: Agnetha was married to the one who plays the acoustic guitar and sings backing vocals, he wrote the song after getting drunk and he gave the song to his Ex-wife Agnetha, when she read the lyrics she understandably got emotional and cried in the studio before singing the song to record it.
Fantastic song. ABBA have got quite few songs they were going for 10 years. Listen to knowing me knowing you mama Mia take chance on me tiger money money money listen to them. They are all still alive
This was their last album in 1980. After 40 years the did a new one, Voyage and they still has the hang of it. They even have their own hologram theater in London with a last consert in AI, but with real music.
Such a great song, especially considering that she had dediced.Her husband Feller recently around this time.And the other pair in the group.They also had divorce.So these people knew what they were talking about. But if you think that that's the end of a story oh no, these guys just came back with a force you would not believe and mainly thanks to Australia, who suddenly discovered them and took them to their hearts to such an extent that they put them on a film called Priscilla Queen of the desert. As the music and that was all it took to open things app in Hollywood and away, we go. But Wayne Britain took them to our hearts. After they won the Eurovision Song Contest, I think in 1976 I really I'm not sure and from that point on that was it. Oh, and all the outfits were designed by freedom, who is the darkhead singer so Hey? Blame her.
Heartbreaking song for me to this day
I wouldn't be a big fan of ABBA but they do a great line in break-up songs.
I was feeling down so the doctor told me to take two ABBA songs every day 🐈⬛🐈🫂❤️
Majestic !
ABBA's "band" name is (supposed to be;) the first letter of each of the four's first names. But I don't remember their names right now, and I just don't wanna look ' em up, so who knows . . . ? 🙄 🎵 😜
A- Agnetha (blonde singer)
B- Björn (guitarist songwriter)
B- Benny ((pianist songwriter(
A- Anni Frid (brunette singer)
@@eduardooscar309 Perfection x 4! 😁
You have to do, The day before you came. That is a hauntingly beautiful masterpiece.
I don't think that the day before you came is a song for Americans, let alone racialized, it's too lyric, bordering on a song with French lyrics. It's not the same genes, DNA, history, culture, regards.
This was released in July 1980, the month Agnatha and Björn's divorce was finalised. They had been seperated since January 1979. Björn says that he does not usually write when drunk, but when he started this one, he opened a bottle of whisky. It was empty when he got to "The gods may throw the dice."
It is not autobiographic. Neither had found a new partner when they divorced. Even so, it is of course about their divorce. It is said that Agnetha wept when she read the lyrics.
Try 'Money money money'...
Love ❤️ from Chile 🇨🇱🤗👍
The video is better ..
Us rock heads , wouldn't admit we loved abba but secretly loved abba. It was Job. His children were also wicked the Word says, but his later children were holy.
They fizzled along with the genre and then they resurged years later
Maybe you guys can check out ABBA's Lay Your Love On Me ....which I feel doesn't get a lot of love from fans ironically lol.
Their best song...then . knowing me knowing you.
Should do " one night in Bangkok" kinda a Abba song they never song but wrote by bjorn after they broke up.
"I let the music speak" gave us a clue of where Bjørn and Benny were heading after ABBA. A true masterpiece 😊
final top 10 hit in the USA, but not elsewhere.
Please listen to The Visitor. It has everything when it comes to music genius
'The Winner..." is one of the 3 most popular break up songs of Abba.Next one u may try 'Knowing me Knowing you" with Frida on the lead.And also 'SOS' with Agnetha on the lead.Both non 'disco' songs.Again for u there ...Is someone is aware of their albums they recorded,ABBA weren't a 'disco' band.Abba's music ground was pop/folk genre but expiremented with various styles even classical music..Within their whole carrer they've recorded 9-10 disco tunes 2 of them you have already reacted.They even did some hard glam rock stuff in their early discography btw. try
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❤ABBA❤
Both couples got divorced after this song!
React to the name of the game. One of their most complex compositions
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The days when a woman could truly sing, fully clothed, without jigging and gyrating around, and the song comes across all the better for it.
Please react to the live concert of ‘In the air tonight’ from Phil Collins. Or to the video version of ‘Mama’ from Genesis.
The Group name is the Groups initials of their first names.,
Great reaction should check out the Allie Sherlock cover it is very good imo
your clip was mono not stereo
Hello gentlemen. Could you please review some Bad Company? The best band snubbed by the "Hall of Fame "
You should reacted the official video of this song instead of this tv performance video. What a lost opportunity
If you think you'd enjoy a slower song, e.g., not disco, from ABBA, check out Fernando.
They made so much money they had to stop. Their earrings were an actual percentage of the country's GDP. Kidnapping threats etc.
Abba Voyage in London 2 years running, seen by nearly 2 million people 2024. A well loved group
@@ian2402 YES indeed.About 2 million tickets sold!It's a dazzling number and a mindblowing show.People travel from all over the world to watch and see this more than once.It's addictive and very emotional.
Anni-Frid did all female backgound vocals..
No, she didn’t. Frida, Agnetha and some Bjorn vocals are backing
Hi Siv-Ann.Well not In Abba's version but in the French cover done by M.Mathieu.(Bjorn participated too).
Ok, I said female background vokal. Sorry, late answer from me in sweden, just discovered the answer again ❤ perhaps i got it wrong when i heard that Frida sings in the background alone..
@@siv-annsjostrom347 Well in this very popular video clip from the German TV show 'Show Express"(must have been) cameras show Agnetha on the lead and focus on Frida while her doing the backing vocals in this.Some may easily gets confused if he's not much aware of the Abba story anyway.
@@alexioverdo5225 I was talking about LP disc. During that time it was playback nearly every time on tv shows. Thank ou for answering so quick
This is a Tv-studio proformance. The Music-video is better. Listen to "Chiquitita" or "Eagle"
Bad request
ABBA is the super group hailing from Sweden and stands for the first initials of their names:
Agnetha (blonde singer)
Benny (piano player)
Bjorn (guitarist)
Annifrid (Frida - redheaded
singer).
This song was written about the breakup / divorce of Agnetha and Bjorn and adds to the emotional delivery of the sing.
Frida and Agnetha have the most beautiful voices and harmonies, and their Swedish accents add to the beauty of their delivery. Other songs I recommend are FERNANDO, MAMMA MIA, SOS and KNOWING ME KNOWING YOU. You can't go wrong with ABBA - they are pure genius.