How refreshing and beautiful!! - the world is now such a dismal place compared with the 70's! God Bless Bjorn and Benny (and Agnetha and Frida always!)!!
Good to see Benny in the back row [third left] Love the down to earth vocals. It's a group work song, people. Great selection of faces and actions plus enigmatic lyrics ["There has to be a moment when the time is right for revelation"] and a magnificant seven finale.
The song has many good qualities. I enjoy the use of the guitar sporadically. I like the unison singing, even though others complain that the ABBA harmonies are missing. There are other qualities that are ABBA-like, including the doubling of instrumental parts. Good structure. Actually, the weakness to me is the less-than perfect English. A Foreign accent has charm, but the usage of the 's' sound with disregard to the z sound is apparent. But I don't condemn the song. I do love it.
While it isn't the same quality of ABBA, it could have easily been a ABBA song, if God forbid, they were still around. It is certainly sounds more ABBAlike than most recent Andersson-Ulvaeus compositions. By this, I don't mean it is a good as some of their recent work-it's just more in the pop/rock style of ABBA.
@stevenkentmurphy Wasn't the Scandinavian non-differentiation of "s" and "z" part of the charm of Abba? And that in Waterloo, they seemed to sing "distiny" rather than "destiny" (can't spell it phonetically). I stay at that great hotel often and the whole point of the song is that regular people are performing it.
I cannot believe some of the comments here, people saying Aggie and Frida should sing it, that it doesn't match Abba etc etc.. Good God people, ITS A HOTEL ADVERTISING THEME SONG. Aggie and Frida are NOT going to do this, even for Benny. The staff do really really good singing it, they are just amateur singers at best, Benny wanted them there to be authentically representative of his hotel, do you need EVERYTHING explained to you like children ???
Wow, it really does grow on you, but I have to agree, the video itself is silly. They should have cast a impish Amelie-type to portray a guest having the time of her life, frolicking through the facilities, and maybe having a little romantic affair with a hunky guest... great song, male ABBA!
Best pop melody of the year! However, it left me strangely bewildered. Why did they have the 'entire' staff singing it? They had no choir-like qualities, and didn't even harmonize. That, and the overwhelming (very late-80s') percussion just left it sounding a bit noisy and dated. It's like some sort of bizarro-world team building exercise as executed by Mozart and a High School Drama Teacher. The Genius of the tune was somehow mired by mediocrity in the execution. Very strange.
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How refreshing and beautiful!! - the world is now such a dismal place compared with the 70's!
God Bless Bjorn and Benny (and Agnetha and Frida always!)!!
i really like it!
but would love to hear agnetha and frida's voices sing this song!
Good to see Benny in the back row [third left] Love the down to earth vocals. It's a group work song, people. Great selection of faces and actions plus enigmatic lyrics ["There has to be a moment when the time is right for revelation"] and a magnificant seven finale.
ABBA is doing a little recording again. I hope they record enough for a whole album, and this would be part of it!
Very skilfully edited
A true ABBA song melody
if it only had two certain lead voices
hej hej-- I love it --a new benny and bjorn song
The song has many good qualities. I enjoy the use of the guitar sporadically. I like the unison singing, even though others complain that the ABBA harmonies are missing. There are other qualities that are ABBA-like, including the doubling of instrumental parts. Good structure. Actually, the weakness to me is the less-than perfect English. A Foreign accent has charm, but the usage of the 's' sound with disregard to the z sound is apparent. But I don't condemn the song. I do love it.
While it isn't the same quality of ABBA, it could have easily been a ABBA song, if God forbid, they were still around. It is certainly sounds more ABBAlike than most recent Andersson-Ulvaeus compositions. By this, I don't mean it is a good as some of their recent work-it's just more in the pop/rock style of ABBA.
Loving it !!
How it would be sung by Agnetha and Frida !
Does anyone else think that this sounds like 'Don't Shut Me Down'??
There's something there yes...🤔😃
Yeap! Come here to listen again since this comes to my mind.
It's the Abba formula.
along with "If it wasn't for the nights" too.
i can feel like all the great abba tunes in this one song
great for the advertising if it's for that. but thanks anyway!
and hello from Russia :-)
leuke bende in een leuk hotel...
ABBA forever !!!
@stevenkentmurphy Wasn't the Scandinavian non-differentiation of "s" and "z" part of the charm of Abba? And that in Waterloo, they seemed to sing "distiny" rather than "destiny" (can't spell it phonetically). I stay at that great hotel often and the whole point of the song is that regular people are performing it.
@danieladanis that would be heaven!
I cannot believe some of the comments here, people saying Aggie and Frida should sing it, that it doesn't match Abba etc etc.. Good God people, ITS A HOTEL ADVERTISING THEME SONG. Aggie and Frida are NOT going to do this, even for Benny. The staff do really really good singing it, they are just amateur singers at best, Benny wanted them there to be authentically representative of his hotel, do you need EVERYTHING explained to you like children ???
Great music. An obvious candidate ABBA should record for Voyage 2.0. with changed lyrics and more refined sound. Also “Just Like That”.
Where can i find the download?
Benny Andersson owns the hotel, so guess was inside job. Great tune though.
omg that blonde girl is so damn hot
Should have been an ABBA song!
It's a Song from Benny, he is the Owner from the Hotel
Wow, it really does grow on you, but I have to agree, the video itself is silly. They should have cast a impish Amelie-type to portray a guest having the time of her life, frolicking through the facilities, and maybe having a little romantic affair with a hunky guest... great song, male ABBA!
Those comments... Just shut up and enjoy it! Very ABBA-esque! I love it! (ABBA is long gone, so don't try to be ABBA purists and complain for nothing)
They're back, baby. Back. Hoping this is on the new album, given the treatment it deserves.
@@chrisirvine3055 The Voyage album complete tracklist was already announced, it doesn’t have this song
@@JF-sh2sm That's a shame. Cheers, my man.
Best pop melody of the year!
However, it left me strangely bewildered.
Why did they have the 'entire' staff singing it? They had no choir-like qualities, and didn't even harmonize. That, and the overwhelming (very late-80s') percussion just left it sounding a bit noisy and dated.
It's like some sort of bizarro-world team building exercise as executed by Mozart and a High School Drama Teacher.
The Genius of the tune was somehow mired by mediocrity in the execution.
Very strange.
I couldn't endure the whole song. Repetitive and dull to death. Any comparison between this jingle and any ABBA song is criminal.
I'm still listening to it years later.