ABBA The Visitors Reaction
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- ABBA The Visitors Reaction
1. Is that Mario picking up coins at the beginning and throughout the song?
2. This sounds like an upbeat song but the lyrics seem a bit dark and intense at times.
The Visitors
ABBA
I hear the doorbell ring and suddenly the panic takes me
The sound so ominously tearing through the silence
I cannot move, I'm standing
Numb and frozen
Among the things I love so dearly
The books, the paintings and the furniture
Help me
The signal's sounding once again and someone tries the door-knob
None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient
And they don't dare to come here
Anymore now
But how I loved our secret meetings
We talked and talked in quiet voices
Smiling
Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm
Crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror evergrowing
Crackin' up
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm
Crackin' up
These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation
And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces
And now they've come to take me
Come to break me
And yet it isn't unexpected
I have been waiting for these visitors
Help me
Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm
Crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror evergrowing
Crackin' up
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm
Crackin' up
Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm
Crackin' up
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror evergrowing
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
Now I hear them moving
Muffled noises coming through the door
I feel I'm
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
Voices growing louder, irritation building
And I'm close to fainting
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
They must know by now I'm in here trembling
In a terror ever growing
Crackin' up (I have been waiting for these visitors)
My whole world is falling, going crazy
There is no escaping now, I'm
Crackin' up 
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ABBA The Visitors Reaction
1. Is that Mario picking up coins at the beginning and throughout the song?
2. This sounds like an upbeat song but the lyrics seem a bit dark and intense at times.
Written at the height of the cold war. They said is was written about that. How people in Russia would hear a knock at the door and never be seen again when they were trying to change things in Russia. They would just vanish. So a song about fear at the height of the Cold War. In a nut shell.
Super Mario was released two years later.
1. Its Supposed To Be The Doorbell Being Pushed .
2. Its About The KGB Picking Up A Dissident.
"The lyrics seem a bit dark and intense at times." AT TIMES? The protagonist is in a horrible, anxiety-inducing situation all the way through. Yeah, it's dark. I LOVE IT.
This was a hit on the dance charts in the United States. The first time I heard it I was actually blown away. It sounds so good to me.
The whole album (1981) is a masterpiece of sound engineering, recongnized lately by critics
This was ABBA's crowning achievement. And we loved dancing to it.
"THE VISITORS" is a masterpiece. Love it !
The drums are sick! Gotta love the drummer for his amazing performance on this track
It's Per Lindvall, in his early 20s. (Here is the same guy in a more laid back jazz-funky setting, but now middle aged :D ruclips.net/video/pcKjNuZoc-M/видео.html )
This song went to #8 on the Billboard Dance Charts (along with 'When All Is Said and Done') and was HUGE in the gay clubs back in the early 80's. In fact, I went to Ft Lauderdale a couple of years ago and it still filled the dance floor! Thanks for posting your reaction video to this INCREDIBLE song!
that's awesome.
Can confirm
Good name for your channel.
Yes, it was a HUGE dance club song even if it fizzled on the pop charts. Here is a clip of what every dance club was like when it came on (start at 1:00). The way it soooo sloooowly builds up to the climax is amazing. nothing like it, especially if you are drunk and maybe under the influence of other things:
ruclips.net/video/9czMC0U-L2k/видео.html
Visitors is an under-appreciated gem and is one hell of a great dance song.
Masterpiece of sound engineering
wow!!! Im so impressed. You have reacted to one of the most admired song among hardcore ABBA fans like myself.
I LOVE THIS song
Lyrics are good.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 I love the double meaning in the lyrics. Could also be about paranoia. Interestingly, a dance remix of this was pretty big at clubs around 1981-82
The Visitors was a huge underground club hit for several years. To put put its arrangement in context, see Human League's Don't You Want Me or Kim Carnes' Bette Davis Eyes among others. The sparse, cold synthesizer driven arrangement was very contemporary. ABBA was expert at the very juxtaposition you put your finger on: dark lyrics and danceable accompaniment. It made their music beautifully ironic.
Agreed
I remember dancing to this. The crowd would rush the dance floor when this played.
It's a song about a Soviet dissident being taken away by the KGB in Soviet era Russia! Bjorn has admitted this.
Thougth it was due the tax. Many rich and musicians at that time got hunted for the tax Bill.
Remember an incident they went to take the house of a famous billionaire. He went insane and wanted to defend it with a shotgun. He got killed.
Later they found out that he had actually payed all his Bills, they had no rigth to take his house. But there were no consequences to them. They could do what they wanted,
It was a governmental hit on an undesireable.
John Williams and Benny & Bjorn got together and said, "let's take the Close Encounters soundtrack to a new level...and let's make it about Russian KGB going all 1984"
Thanks for the reaction. It's really hard to pick but I would say this is my favorite ABBA album. You have to remember both couples had split by this point. Their recording engineer said it was like polite torture in the studio. He also tells of Agnetha coming in and singing "The Day Before You Came" alone and in the dark. When she was done she took off the head phones, hung them up and opened the door to walk out into the light. He said I knew right then ABBA was over. That was their last recorded song. Anni-Frid has talked about putting down "Like An Angel Passing Through My Room" alone in studio with Benny playing organ. She said she had tears in her eyes and was was waiting for him to say something so she could let him have it. This album is dark but it's there masterpiece.
It's unfortunate that these power couples don't last.
This was their last studio album for thirty years until 2021 when they reformed to make voyage which is now a holographic show in London currently
It's on their more experimental, techno side, coming after a number of years of more traditional, pure pop. I like it. It has a lot of texture, and has held up well over time, as has most of their oeuvre...
I think you are not prepared to admire the masterpieces of ABBA, you make some strange faces
Well…I mean let’s be real here I’m not an expert. This is just my opinion of course. This channel is my learning experience.
This is my favorite ABBA song. I loooove ABBA in a gloomy and desperate mood. A masterpiece.
Our dark side can bring out some good stuff.
It was the only political song they had !! THEY thought the Russian a were going to take there Country !! 😰😰😰😰
I agree...just look at what is happening today...
Brilliant song! Brilliant album!
the song hit #8 on official bb dance charts. that is a big hit. It was the most requested hot tracks remix of all times
Merry Christmas!!!
I must admit not one of my favourite Abba songs but has grown on me over the years. My favourite songs from that album are One of Us, Slipping through my fingers and When all is said and done.
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She is a sovjet dissident trapt and they are coming to get her. The chimes in the beginning is the doorbell ringning.
During my teens i was an abba fanatic this was a great album. Went to skiathos where they filmed mama mia for the abba sights,its truly breathtaking try listening to the eagle its hauntingly beautiful
hauntingly beautiful? Okay well....with that description I'll do that one.
This is my favorite ABBA songs. My take on it is someone slowly going crazy. Her friends abandon her and the men in the white coats are coming for her. The only solitude is in her mind.
You got a good imagination.
@@jaybrielakoi7747 Probably true!
It's about the constant threat you lived under in Sovjet as politcal dissident, and for that matter still do in Russia.
This song IMO is very science fiction, sounding and it tells me about alien lifeforms invading other planets and trying to takeover the planets the aliens invade and also cause interplanetary war.
I feel like they wanted to keep "the air of mystery" for the fact that if you make this about a moment and place in history, you forget it's happening still and in more than one country
Have you done Like An Angel Passing Through My Room from this album? The ABBA version with Frida singing lead is my favourite track by them, and the song has been covered gorgeously with full orchestra by Norwegian soprano Sissel Kyrkjebo, too...
It has also been covered by Madonna. It was never released though. Found a leaked demo version on RUclips.
The lyric is from the point of view of a dissident in the Soviet Union who has been found in her hiding place by the authorities. Dark, it indeed is. That was a dark place and time...
Merry Christmas!!!
Mario was really really into ABBA
It's the outside face vs the actual reality. Yes, the sound is upbeat (the outside face), but the lyrics are the actual reality. A brilliant work.
Great reaction!
I agree in most of what you said. One thing I want to ad is a very special and interesting melody for the song.
Research just showed me that Super Mario Bros came out in 1985. This song came out in late 1981 (...and not April 1982).
Other interpretaions of the lyrics, before Björn let people know the meaning behind his words, are being about an UFO abduction, and also - someone being taken away to a psychiatric hospital (those were my original interpretations).
That's what's good with metaphiric and cryptic lyrics, is that it give the listener a chance to use their imagination more 😊
check out 'the gulag archipelago'.
it's a long read, but it will explain the constant fear that political dissidents, and christians, lived with in the former soviet union and other communist countries.
there's an audiobook version here on youtube if you'd rather listen to it.
for millions of people, the state police knocking on the door late at night was a terrifying reality.
this is still happening in north korea and communist china.
I'm not sure which other ABBA song the "Now I hear them moving..." part sounds like.
It cannot be that I remember this one (I think), I haven't heard it that many times :)
But the layering and the effect on fridas voice at the end was very cool.
The chorus is actually a remake of their song `Summer Night City´, which I love. They weren´t too happy how that song turned out and was a stand alone single. They never included the song on the next album. However, the song features on the greatest hit album `More ABBA Gold´. They didn´t release any new album in ´78. They always release a new album every year. I think they released this single, despite of dislike from the members, just to say `Hey, we´re still around´.
@@niclas.olsson Thanks, that's clearly, now that you mention it, the one I couldn't put my finger on.
@@niclas.olsson and the beginning of the verse ("I hear the doorbell ring and suddenly the panic takes me") is coincidentally similar to the melody line in the beginning of their single B-side "Happy Hawaii".
If you would like to hear ABBA live, here is the link to "Does Your Mother Know/Hole in Your Soul" performed at Wembley Arena in 1979. Their lineup on stage is quite impressive. In addition to ABBA there are three backup singers, two guitar players, a keyboard player, bass, two guitar players, and two drummers. They were big fans of Phil Spector's "wall of sound". ruclips.net/video/JEyYTANSPj4/видео.html
PS the meaning of it is about Aliens. Which is a metaphor for the way countries in War think of their adversaires.
7:30 I don't think "Mario" existed when this was recorded in 1981.
This song is about authoritarian regimes oppressing citizens who think freely within their own homes (at the time, the symbol was the USSR).
Frida delivers a vocal made by herself, without "autotune", which did not exist at that time, demonstrating all the "anguish of humiliation". The "sound of Mario Bros." is from before the Mario Bros. game itself.
Masterpiece.
They weren't allowed to play that at a conference/meeting because of the lyrics. Also, during soviet era, hiding lyrics to abstract enough not to get arrested was a thing too. Many pop songs out of Latvia are very much in line. If you want a tougher one to decipher, Heart's 'Barracuda' has a very serious meaning too, but it's very hidden as well.
CRANK IT UP
I believe it has to do with the secret police....
They were light years ahead of anyone else with their music which is why they set the standards for music today nd your number one point, really?
LOL it does sound like Mario picking up a coin! I believe 1982 was before Mario though!
Another side of ABBA is the song "I Let the Music Speak" which is sung by Frida. This is one of my favorite ABBA songs. Here is the link to a very well produced fan video. ruclips.net/video/wx1ZfuZXztA/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/yqbZ-dFDDJQ/видео.html Aight, I'll do it but I'll just use the boring album version. If i use that version people will flip out and I'll spend all. day explaining that you wanted this one in the comments.
From before fame; People Need Love, Nina Pretty Ballerina, He is Your Brother, Dance (Whilst the Music Still Goes On).
Wow, all this time I've been listening to ABBA wrong. Should have been standing stock-still, expressionless, thumb on chin, blank and befuddled afterward. 😐🤔🥱🤷🏽♂️
It's sexy isn't it.
So you want a fake reactor
Then again, this is not exactly a song to dance to. I've been listening to this song since 1981 and it never even crossed my mind that I should move my body or dance to it. Like oh hey, she's panicking about being arrested shortly, let's dance a bit. It's not a song to make you smile, grin or whatever, either. It is indeed one that makes you think and this reaction was authentic, in my opinion.
@@AnssiRai Then you're not listening to it properly. It is a dance song. I have never NOT moved my body to this song in 40 years of listening to it. It is propulsive, it is physiologically involving. They played it at the clubs in the 90s, they used it for a TV dance competition in the early 80s. You don't dance to lyrics.
@@deliuslyndon8340 Ok, a song can be interpreted in many ways. I appreciate "the VIsitors" for its soundscapes and atmosphere, but I have never regarded it as a dance song, particularly with the slow first part. Even the more upbeat chorus just serves to describe the narrator's growing anxiety. They might have used it for a dance competition in the early 80s but that was because it was the latest by Abba at the time, so they thought it would be the cool thing to do and there was nothing else on the Visitors to really dance to (save for maybe Head Over Heels, but I have never heard that one hit the clubs). And I doubt the clubs played the Visitors song in its entirety, with the slow first minute or so - what a way to kill the party mood. There might have been a special mix for the clubs. Anyway, quite a feat for an album track that never was a single. - My point being: if I want to dance to Abba, I choose something else. And if someone chooses to listen to this song in a more introspective/analysing fashion, it should be fine.
The lyrics,if its positive or sad doesnt make me like or dislike the song in either way...the way they fit the song,how smart they sound woven together with the song and how good they sound,and also the melody,is how I judge a song...I like this..great song,maybe one of their most interesting later songs...
Sounds to me like,🤯
my eyes suck I have no idea what that emoji is.
That sound is blowing my head up.🤯 we use to say it's blowing my mind.🤣🤣
mental issues rather than political. the Securitate showed up at 4 a.m. so she wouldn't expect friends at that time.
So many people know so much stuff about this song.
I thought the same thing about Mario.
I'm really trying jay to be honest about the music I react to.there has to be a reason why there's a thumbs down button on here. So I keep trying, 😇fir you👍👍
thanks
Gee it's a song about my elementary school years!
Not surprising, but this song (and the entire album) was banned from being played or sold in the USSR.
I have never seen robin sing like this song.😍😍 I can't see nobody. Live midnight special. I wouldn't steer you wrong, I almost cried.😢😢
Please listen to the music from the movie the Warriors from the 70,s, the theme song by Barry DeVorzon. Really good.
always thought the meaning of this song was about aliens and not about the political climate of europe at that time.
Then ABBA should sue Nintendo as the song was released before Mario lol!!
your microphone is not good quality
YOU ARE RIGHT. I'm changing my setup soon.