*first time hearing* ABBA- Chiquitita|REACTION!!
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"Chiquitita" means 'little girl' (with affection) in spanish And the melody have a spanish tune, specialy by the acustic guitar But the center is the wonderful piano, like akmost all ABBA songs
"Chiquitita" is a beautiful song, it has hopeful lyrics, a melody that starts very soft with the blonde Agnetha's solo, then grows and explodes in a powerful chorus; Agnetha and Anni Frida's vocal harmonies are of excellence (Agnetha is soprano, Anni Frid is mezzo soprano, and together blending together the 'Third Voice' of ABBA)
"Chiquitita" was composed especially for the Concert by UNICEF, invited (with a lot of artist) by Bee Gees
ABBA premiered "Chiquitita" that night in January 9 (1979), and its royalties are eternal for UNICEF
"Chiquitita" was ABBA's greatest success in Latin America, that prompted ABBA to record it in Spanish, and its success was so extraordinary that in the following years ABBA recorded an album with its best songs entirely in Spanish
"Chiquitita" was specialy the greatest hit of ABBA in my country Argentina
"Chiquitita" is in the Top 3 of all ABBA worldwide biggest hits, with 'Dancing Queen" and "Fernando", and it's a fantastic Masterpiece
This promotional video was in February 1979 in Swizterland, when ABBA go there to a special TV "ABBA in Switzerland", for the 'International year of the Child'
(That's why the snowman)
It's their only promotional video that ABBA made without Sweden
I wish to see you soon in another reactions to ABBA songs
Maybe the next could be
"Thank you for the music" (1977)
another beautiful ABBA song recorded in spanish
GOD bless you and stay safe
My best regards from
Buenos Aires Argentina
South America
Thats the Joy you should have for listening to Chiquitita. "You be dancing once again".
Hi Sheray! Thanks for reacting to this TRULY beautiful song! This is one of my favourites from ABBA! My other favourite is Fernando! Not sure if you have reacted to this one or not! If you haven’t I would love to see your reaction! Thanks for every thing you do for the channel! Peace and Blessings to you and yours from Australia!
Only THE BEST ⭐ POP ⭐ MUSIC ⭐ EVER! 😃
Great react Sheray!
See you soon ✌️
Love ❤️ from Chile 🇨🇱🤗😘👍
My favourite ABBA song
ditto!
My gosh, you're beaming. This is why I love music. It's ability to transport people to their happy place. Your smile couldn't have gotten any bigger; and it was infectious. It put the biggest smile on my face watching you react to this song. So endearing. Keep it up Sheraytv. I just subscribed. Greetings from Toronto.
Best harmony song, good to see you reacting this song
The group did a version in Spanish which was very popular with the mothers of the 'disappeared' in Argentina. The lyrics were changed a bit to go with the language change.
A most fantástica reaction 🪅! I see 👁👁 you have reacted to ABBA before: SOS, Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!, Dancing Queen, Happy New Year, The Name Of The Game, Knowing Me Knowing You, Does Your Mother Know, Mamma Mia and Take A Chance On Me. Chiquitita was released as the lead single from ABBA's 1979 album: Voulez-Vous. It was written and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus. The song reached #15 on the AC chart, #29 on the Hot 100 and #36 on the Cash Box 100. It peaked at #1 in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Ireland, Mexico, Finland, Argentina, Spain, Rhodesia, New Zealand, South Africa and Belgium. It climbed to #2 in the UK and Sweden. The single sold over 3 million copies worldwide.
The music video was directed by Urban Lasson. The song was one of the few singles ABBA released without an official custom-made music video. Since then, on compilations of the group's videos, a contemporary TV performance of the song has been used, recorded in mid-February 1979, a month after the single's release. This clip was taped by the BBC during recording of the show ABBA in Switzerland, broadcast across Europe at Easter 1979, but this clip did not feature in the broadcast, being intended for a Christmas program.
ABBA are seen performing the song on a mountainside, with a snowman in the background. Throughout the clip, the bad weather and bad light caused problems during filming, which affected Anni-Frid Lyngstad; her hair constantly flew in her face, and she was forced to keep moving it out of her eyes, so it was not used. During the location shoot in Leysin, the BBC recorded two other versions of the group lip-synching to the song. The group performed the song inside the BBC Big Top used to host ABBA in Switzerland, which was included in the final broadcast, and a second video was shot of the group sitting around a table in a cafe, for the show Christmas Snowtime Special shown on BBC1 on December 23, 1979, hosted by Dame Edna Everage.
The video clip of the group filmed outside with the snowman was intended for this Christmas show, but producer/director Michael Hurll recorded the second video clip because he was not happy with the first one. In March 2022, a new lyric video was released featuring the mountainside footage.
Miscellaneous Notes 🗃:
Originally, the song was called: "In The Arms Of Rozellita". Bjorn Ulvaeus, who wrote the song, liked the title but couldn't find a matching story, so it became "Chiquitita". Chiquitita, in Spanish, means "Little Girl".
ABBA performed this song in 1979 at the Music for UNICEF Concert. ABBA donated half the proceeds from the song to UNICEF in recognition of the "International Year of the Child" in 1979. In 2014, all ABBA members agreed on increasing their donation to 100% of all royalties from the song to UNICEF. As of 2021, the song's royalties have raised $4.8 million for the charity.
To facilitate a breakthrough in South America, ABBA recorded a Spanish-language version of this song, despite the fact the band had never learned the language. The group sang the song phonetically and their efforts enhanced their popularity in a number of Latin America countries. With the success of the English version, ABBA recorded the song: "Chiquitita", in Spanish, and it was one of the featured tracks on their 1980 Spanish-language album: Gracias Por La Música.
Leona Lewis performed this while she was a contestant on The X Factor (UK) in 2006.
As of September 2021, it is ABBA's ninth-biggest song in the UK, including both pure sales and digital streams.
The song has been covered by other artists including 📻: Menudo, Cher, Stephen Gately, Richard Clayderman, Sinéad O'Connor, Joel Theodore, Roberto Delgado, Nana Mouskouri, Ray Conniff, Caravelli, Bonnie St Claire and José Hoebee, Perla, René Simard and Nathalie Simard, Laleh, Zdenka Vučković, Sharifah Aini, Chico & The Gypsies, Amaia Montero, Kress, Marco Paulo, Andy Dimes, Leonardo Paniagua, Charo, Pandora, E-Rotic, Nana Mouskouri and more.
Critical Reception 🗣:
Cash Box wrote that it has "a bouncy tune" with "soaring harmonies".
Song Credits 📝:
Agnetha Fältskog - lead vocals
Anni-Frid Lyngstad - backing vocals
Björn Ulvaeus - guitar
Benny Andersson - keyboards
Lyrics 🗒:
Chiquitita, tell me what's wrong
You're enchained by your own sorrow
In your eyes there is no hope for tomorrow
How I hate to see you like this
There is no way you can deny it
I can see that you're oh so sad, so quiet
Chiquitita, tell me the truth
I'm a shoulder you can cry on
Your best friend, I'm the one you must rely on
You were always sure of yourself
Now I see you've broken a feather
I hope we can patch it up together
Chiquitita, you and I know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and I cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, Chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, Chiquitita
So the walls came tumbling down
And your love's a blown out candle
All is gone and it seems too hard to handle
Chiquitita, tell me the truth
There is no way you can deny it
I see that you're oh so sad, so quiet
Chiquitita, you and I know
How the heartaches come and they go and the scars they're leaving
You'll be dancing once again and the pain will end
You will have no time for grieving
Chiquitita, you and I cry
But the sun is still in the sky and shining above you
Let me hear you sing once more like you did before
Sing a new song, Chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, Chiquitita
Try once more like you did before
Sing a new song, Chiquitita
ABBA Info 📰:
ABBA are a Swedish Pop supergroup formed in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972 by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The group's name is an acronym of the first letters of their first names arranged as a palindrome: Agnetha, Björn, Benny, Anni-Frid. The group members of ABBA were married as follows: Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Ulvaeus from 1971 to 1979, Benny Andersson and Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad from 1978 to 1981. They are one of the most popular and successful musical groups of all time, and are one of the best-selling music acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982, and in 2022. In 1977 ABBA: The Movie, was produced. It is a mockumentary comedy-drama film about ABBA's Australian tour. An international co-production from Sweden and Australia, the film was directed by Lasse Hallström, who helmed most of the band's videos.
The discography of Swedish Pop music group ABBA consists of nine studio albums, two live albums, seven compilation albums, four box sets, five video albums, 50 singles, and 43 music videos. To date, ABBA has sold 150 million records worldwide becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history. They have scored 9 No. 1 singles and 10 No. 1 albums in the UK, becoming the most successful Swedish act of all time on the Official Charts. ABBA are among the best-selling music artists in history, with record sales estimated to be between 150 million to 385 million sold worldwide and the group were ranked 3rd best-selling singles artists in the United Kingdom with a total of 11.3 million singles sold by November 3, 2012.
In 1974, ABBA were Sweden's first winner of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song: "Waterloo", which in 2005 was chosen as the best song in the competition's history as part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the contest. The band members were married. With the increase of their popularity, their personal lives suffered, which eventually resulted in the collapse of both marriages. The relationship changes were reflected in the group's music, with later compositions featuring darker and more introspective lyrics. After ABBA disbanded in December 1982, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus continued their success writing music for multiple audiences including stage, musicals and movies, while Agnetha Fältskog and Björn Lyngstad pursued solo careers releasing several albums.
Ten years after the group broke up, a compilation album: ABBA Gold, was released becoming a worldwide best-seller. In 1999, ABBA's music was adapted into the stage play: Mamma Mia!, that toured worldwide and, as of April 2022, is still in the top-ten longest running productions on both Broadway (closed in 2015) and the West End (still running). A film of the same name: Mamma Mia!, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. A film sequel: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, was released in 2018.
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On March 15, 2010, ABBA were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by Bee Gees members Barry Gibb and Robin Gibb. The ceremony was held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. The group were represented by Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson.
In 2016, the group reunited and started working on a digital avatar concert tour. Newly recorded songs were announced in 2018. The group's album: Voyage, their first new album in 40 years, was released on 5 November 2021 to positive critical reviews and strong sales in numerous countries. ABBA Voyage, a concert residency featuring ABBA as virtual avatars, opened in May 2022 in London.
In 2024, ABBA still performs their music on stage in 2024 via their virtual concert residency: ABBA Voyage. These concerts feature virtual avatars, depicting the group as they appeared in 1979, and use vocals re-recorded by the group in a Swedish studio specifically for this show, accompanied by a live band on stage. However the group doesn't perform together live on stage. Benny Andersson still performs live with his Benny Andersson Band (BAO). Björn Ulvaeus still performs live with a backing band as well. Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskög don't have any events scheduled for 2024.
Miscellaneous Note 🗂:
Owing to a Musician's Union ruling, ABBA were forced to perform their 1975 song: "Mamma Mia", live on the UK television show: Top Of The Pops, when it hit #1 on the UK Singles music chart, the only time they appeared live on the TV show.
Legacy 🛡:
In May 2023 ABBA were awarded the BRIT Billion Award which celebrates those who have surpassed the milestone of one billion UK streams in their career.
ABBA were the first group from a non-English-speaking country to achieve consistent success in the charts of English-speaking countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, United States, Republic of Ireland, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.
They are the best-selling Swedish band of all time and the best-selling band originating in continental Europe.
ABBA had eight consecutive number-one albums in the UK.
The group also enjoyed significant success in Latin America and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish.
ABBA were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2002.
The group were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010, the first recording artists to receive this honor from outside an Anglophonic country.
In 2015, their song "Dancing Queen" was inducted into the Recording Academy's Grammy Hall of Fame.
ABBA Group Members 👩🎤👩🎤🎸🎹:
Agnetha Fältskog - lead and backing vocals
Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad - lead and backing vocals
Björn Ulvaeus - guitars, lead and backing vocals
Benny Andersson - keyboards, synthesizers, piano, accordion, backing and lead vocals
ABBA Tours 🏟:
1. Concert Tours
Swedish Folkpark Tour (1973)
European Tour (1974-1975)
European & Australian Tour (1977)
ABBA: The Tour (1979-1980)
2. Concert Residencies
ABBA Voyage (2022-2024)
ABBA Albums 📀:
Ring Ring (1973)
Waterloo (1974)
ABBA (1975)
Arrival (1976)
The Album (1977)
Voulez-Vous (1979)
Super Trouper (1980)
Gracias Por La Música (1980)
The Visitors (1981)
Voyage (2021)
Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad Albums 📀:
Frida (1971)
Frida Ensam (1975)
Something's Going On (1982)
Shine (1984)
Djupa Andetag (1996)
Agnetha Fältskog Albums 📀:
Agnetha Fältskog (1968)
Agnetha Fältskog Vol. 2 (1969)
Som Jag Ar (1970)
När En vVcker Tanke Blir En Sång (1971)
Jesus Christ Superstar Movie Soundtrack (1972)
Elva Kvinnor I Ett Hus (1975)
Nu Tändas Tusen Juleljus w/ Linda Ulvaeus (1981)
Wrap Your Arms Around Me (1983)
Eyes Of A Woman (1985)
I Stand Alone (1987)
Kom Följ Med I Vår Karusell w/ Christian Ulvaeus (1987)
Geh' Mit Gott (1994)
My Colouring Book (2004)
A (2013)
Björn Ulvaeus And Benny Andersson Albums 📀:
Lycka (1970)
Chess w/ Tim Rice (1984)
Chess Pieces (1986)
Chess: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1988)
Chess In Concert (1994)
Kristina Från Duvemåla (1996)
Från Waterloo Till Duvemåla (1998)
16 Favoriter Ur Kristina Från Duvemåla (1999)
Mamma Mia! (1999)
Mamma Mia! (2000)
Chess På Svenska (2002)
Mamma Mia! På Svenska (2005)
Mamma Mia! The Movie Soundtrack (2008)
Chess In Concert (2009)
Kristina At Carnegie Hall (2010)
Hjälp Sökes (2013)
Some more good ABBA songs 🎶: Super Trouper, He Is Your Brother, Ring Ring, Hasta Manana, Nina Pretty Ballerina, Honey Honey, So Long, I Do I Do I Do I Do I Do, People Need Love, Tropical Loveland, I've Been Waiting For You, Another Town Another Train, Andante Andante, Move On, Sitting In The Palmtree, Dance (While The Music Still Goes On), Hasta Mañana, Summer Night City, Lay All Your Love On Me, The Visitors (Crackin' Up), Gonna Sing You My Lovesong, The Winner Takes All, I Have A Dream, Bang-A-Boomerang, Money Money Money, Voulez-Vous, Hey Hey Helen, What About Livingstone, Under Attack, My Mama Said, Our Last Summer, Fernando, That's Me, Slipping Through My Fingers, The Day Before You Came, Waterloo, Angeleyes, When I Kissed The Teacher, Lovelight, Eagle, Head Over Heels, I Wonder (Departure), One Of Us, Thank You For The Music, When All Is Said And Done, I Am The City, So Long, Honey Honey, Just A Notion, Intermezzo No 1, Rock'n Roll Band, I Still Have Faith In You, Don't Shut Me Down, Love Isn't Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough), Rock Me, Cassandra, The Way Old Friends Do, As Good As New, On And On And On and Suzy-Hang-Around.
Fun Fact 🕵♀: On May 8, 2020, Cher announced she had re-recorded ABBA's 1979 song: Chiquitita, in Spanish with all proceeds going to UNICEF, similar to how ABBA had done in 1979 with the release of the same song. Cher's Spanish version became her first song to chart on a Billboard Latin music chart #6 on the US Latin Digital Song Sales. A music video for the song premiered on UNICEF's website on May 9, 2020, and was uploaded to Cher's official RUclips channel shortly afterward.
The best song for a girls sad BFF!
Benny's awesome on the piano.
70's... you gotta love them!
You can speak quicker than I can type 😄
Nice reaction.
Could you react to ABBA "If it wasn't for the nights" Japan please
Greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 🙏🏼
During covid period unoffiocial Spanish national anthem.
I can´t help seeing the race dimension of this. I love when black people react to our classics / I´m Swedish / and take it to their hearts. To see how there are no boundaries. Your joy in this reaction, it´s lovely! They - the boundaries - are in my mind you might say, since I see the race aspect, and I couldn´t argue against you. But I know what world we live in. I´m married to a 45 % African woman, not that it should mean anything...
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Try there songs That´s Me , Kisses Of Fire, When I Kiss The Teacher, Voulez Vous ,
Some reactions to consider 🤔: Bananarama - Cruel Summer (Official Video), Bryan Adams - Summer Of '69 (Official Music Video) or Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime (Official Audio).
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Now give another Swedish group, Dirty Loops, a chance. "Next to you" or their Thriller cover for example. Get prepared to fall into a rabbit hole!
Song request: "The Power Of Love" by Alton McClain & Destiny. Please and thank you.
It's pretty awesome to just listen to music for how it sounds..lol. completely ignoring the bad ass harmonizing elf guy!
Something about your body language tells me you rather enjoyed that ;-)
The New York Times article from 1983 years:
Abba: The Singles'' (Atlantic 80036-1-G) sums up the first decade in the career of the Swedish pop quartet that claims to have sold more albums worldwide (well over 100 million) than any group since the Beatles. With 23 songs sequenced chronologically, the two-disk set traces the development of Abba's sound from a jingly hard-edged pop toward a grander, texturally more expansive mode of synthesizer pop.
Abba's success is attributable above all to its irresistible tunes. Written mostly by the group's songwriter-producers and instrumentalists Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, Abba's melodies have the indelible charm of Christmas carols like ''Jingle Bells.'' These assertive, happy melodies that practically flaunt their cliched turns of phrase, are ideally suited to Abba's lead singers Agnetha Faltskog and Anni-Frid Lyngstad, both sopranos with clear, light voices and careful diction. Just as Abba's songs seem remote from any sense of personal involvement, the women in the group sing from the polite distance of choirmistresses.
The combination of simplicity and formality in Abba's music jibes with the group's goal of crafting a global pop style that's a sort of pop music answer to Esperanto. Instead of Swedish, the group has written and recorded most of its material in a grammatically correct but nonidiomatic English, using the simplest of vocabularies. Pronounced phonetically, the lyrics become a kind of computer language, made all the more abstract by Abba's faraway pose of gleaming angelic cordiality.
The earliest songs on the anthology, ''Ring Ring,'' ''So Long, ''Waterloo'' and ''I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do'' echo American hits from the late 50's and early 60's by Pat Boone, Connie Francis and other singers who used rock and roll as the basis of a tinny, blandsounding American pop. ''Waterloo,'' the international hit that launched the group when it won the Eurovision song contest in 1974, is their most appealing early song, with its peppy marching tune and grand choral vocal arrangement.
As Abba's sound grew more spacious, the group's aural models became more fashionable. The exuberant female choruses and airy textures of such hits as ''Knowing Me, Knowing You,'' ''SOS'' and ''The Name of the Game,'' look back to the producer Phil Spector's hits with the Ronettes and the Crystals. The harmonized syllabic incantations of songs like ''Take a Chance on Me'' recall such Beachboys hits as ''Barbara Ann'' and ''Good Vibrations.'' During the same period that Abba parodied American rock and roll from the mid-1960's, the group also cultivated specific European markets with songs like ''Mamma Mia,'' ''Chiquitita'' and ''Fernando,'' whose melodies adopted traditional European flavors.
With the singles ''Dancing Queen'' and ''Voulez-Vous,'' Abba's music also incorporated Afro-American inflections, as they bowed to the late 70's disco craze. Their verses of ''Dancing Queen'' feature a Bo Diddley riff, while ''Voulez-Vous'' uses snappy light funk horn charts. In both songs, the combination of airy dance rhythms and candied studio textures suggests a giant singing merry-go-round.
As the disco craze waned, Abba's music once again became more European in feel. With their lavishly harmonized vocals and such florid touches as choirs of mandolins and electric sitar, songs like ''Super Trouper,'' ''I Have a Dream'' and ''The Winner Takes It All'' suggest a massive children's chorus echoing through the Alps.
Stylistically, Abba's music has proved to be a decisive bridge between the 1960's, when American pop styles dominated international markets, and today's synthesizer pop, which is more European than American in its orientation. Abba's sketchy skeletal tunes with their childlike repetitions were obvious forerunners of the electronic chants of contemporary English techno-pop groups like Human League and A Flock of Seagulls. Even Elvis Costello, the foremost singersongwriter of the British new wave, has acknowledged Abba as an important influence on his songwriting. Many of Mr. Costello's tunes share with Abba's a martial melodic impulse with a staccato-like matching of note to syllable.
Most importantly, Abba was the first group to market itself successfully as a musical entity with a global point of view. While other groups, notably the Clash and the Police, have carried the concept of internationalism further by writing socially relevant lyrics and bringing African and third world rhythms to their music, it was Abba who pointed the way. Never in the annals of modern pop has a major group had so little to say of literary interest, yet been so influential. ''Abba: The Singles'' is a testament to the unstoppable power of the catchy tune.
A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 13, 1983, Section 2, Page 28 of the National edition with the headline: ABBA LOOKS BACK ON ITS FIRST DECADE.