Abba - Dancing Queen (Analysis) SIMPLY FANTASTIC
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- Опубліковано 31 гру 2020
- It's not very often that i comment in the description. And, i would normally revisit a track in context of the month it was released.... but, there are always exceptions. I took a deep breath and jumped into this one. I'm glad i did. I feel totally energised now. Peace and love to ya'll.
Have a superdupermegamungas 2021
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Thanks for posting. ABBA's just a magical group. Even more so as I grow older. Keep spreading it and make the world a better place. 😀
Thank you, you're very welcome. It was a pleasure to review this track xx
Fantastic description of what will always be a classic song...simply great reactions!!! 😁👍 Oh have a exceptional 2021... 👏😊
Thank you. You have a great 2021 too x
Thx for the nice reaction
For me it's also a masterpiece
It's just the feeling I get with this song
My one and only all-time favorite song
No other song impressed me so far (from any artist)
It's just a red line through my life.....it always makes me wanna listen to it
Thx again
An intetesting and good analysis of this brilliant song! Abba is somehow getting better the older I get. I was 10 when they won the Eurovision song contest in Brighton 1975. I met Agnetha a few times in my neighbourhood as a child. Her parents lived quite near me in Sweden. I think Agnetha is one of the best female singers in popular music ever. And I'm still totally thrilled over her stage appearance. She just don't sing like an angel, she looks as one also! And Anni-Frid is not to be forgotten! Fantastic! Not to mention Björn and Benny, the two guys, who wrote all the music!
I think this is the perfect pop song of all time also. I'm a 54 yr old male from the US who has been a metal head and hard rock fan. I hated this as a kid but as I grew up I realized how great this track is and how great it is perfected. The drums are at the most desirable beat, the voices are angelic and soothing and the piano touches the heart. A great song and a great reaction review. Glad I found your channel. Best of luck with it.
I was lucky enough to see them live at Wembley arena 1979, and let me tell you it was one of the best concerts I have ever seen, and I’ve been to a few, really looking forward to hearing their new songs.
ABBA is another of my guilty pleasures! Or, at least it was when I was growing up. It wasn't, 'in', for a young man to like ABBA at the time, and yet, this song and many of their other hits were always liked. The video to this always reminds me of a shampoo commercial due to the amount of hair flicking that goes on, particularly toward the end of the song. The song does seem to escalate the mood as it goes on. Especially during the chorus. Something a lot of ABBA songs tend to do is be very uplifting and up-tempo, despite some of them being quite sad songs, lyrically. Even this one has a kind of sad undertone running through it, somehow despite it being an ultimate, 'dance', song.
I'm sure you're familiar with many of the other ABBA songs worthy of reacting to which I look forward to seeing your reactions to!
Thank you, and my mind is awash with music to react to thanks to all the folk on my channel x
There is SO MUCH going on in this song, everything is just perfectly placed, it lifts you up instantly, whirls you around in euphoria and then placec you down gently at the end. The piano intro is called a Glissando.
Thank you. I love information like this xx
I still have a soft spot for ABBA after all those years. They were everywhere when I was starting my musical journey as a boy. They were masters of compelling pop composition. Their songs may seem simple from the outside, but they're not. There are not many pop artists who managed to keep up that kind of amazing musicality over a ten-year career. Top-notch music, will listen to it till my dying day on Mars in a thousand year or so (some over-optimism on january 1, 2021 is in order I guess :-D) But I will also continue to listen to my prog metal stuff. Weird mix, isn't it? :-) Happy new year!
ABBA also has a song...Happy New Year
Your insights are very good, I’ve always thought of it as a nostalgic song, looking back at carefree younger days. But it’s hard to put a finger on it. What a song.
Good morning and happy new year (like ABBA's song from 1980)
So happy to have discovered your channel, to see and hear your reaction to ABBA's classic "Dancing Queen"
You have been very clear and generous in your analysis It is a beautiful song, which shines in the loftiness of its vocal harmonies
The boys achieved here an extraordinary work of Agnetha and Frida, each one gives its best effort to match the other (Frida rises in the highs, Agnetha lowers more to the bass) and thus their combined voves achieve records of perfection
(I'm not a technician, I read it from specialists)
And the music is bright and enveloping, from the initial chord it introduces you into the atmosphere of the disco and invites you to dance
I think that the English public has voted it as one of the songs they want to hear the most, because of the feeling of joy and energy it gives them (another I think is "Don't stop me now" by Queen)
I have seen on your channel that you have reactions to different groups and interpreters But this is your first reaction to an ABBA song
Because of the affection with which you did it, I feel that you know very well the excellent Swedish pop group
That is why I will tell you about what they are for me: the best, most versatile and most important group of the 70s, in the post BEATLES decade (the revolutionary group of the 60s)
ABBA, as in its time BEATLES, was a musical and cultural phenomenon, and its legacy lives on
I personally believe that its milestones are:
"Waterloo" (his baptism in Eurovision 1974)
"S.O.S." (confirmation in 1975)
"Dancing Queen" (the Consecration in 1976)
And a wonderful series of more than 20 world hits and no less than 50 other great songs
That is why I would very much like to see your reactions to those two milestones:
the iconic and founding moment of "Waterloo" at Eurovision
and the great merit of S.O.S. to reinsert ABBA in the world market with its second international success
Thank you very much for reading me
I hope to continue seeing your reactions
GOD bless you and have a very good year 2021
my regards from Argentina
Thank you. Read your comment and found it really interesting xx I've only just started with Abba and really looking forward to more of their music xx
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thank you for your words
I give you the link with the ABBA's perfomance at Eurovisión Song Contest in England 1974:
ua-cam.com/video/3FsVeMz1F5c/v-deo.html
I hope You enjoy this
Date: it's a competition
are another 16 songs from some countries of Europa
(included Oliva Newton John from England and Gigliola Cinquetti from Italy as a favorite previus)
Normally Agnetha does more of the highs and the dramatic parts, and Frida the lower and sometimes smoother. You can see the contrast in The Name of the Game. I like it when you see that contrast rather than them always singing together.
One of the best songs of them singing together is Angel Eyes, the same year as the Roxy Music song but better than that.
The engineer Tretow experimented with their voices, double tracking them and helping to create the power to their voices.
I heard it said that they worked around Agnetha's voice when it wasn't a Frida solo song as she had the high dramatic parts. Both of them very good singers offering different things to the group, though Agnetha got more of the spotlight in media.
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lovely two voices
Agnetha and Frida
and their armonies
nobody does it better
May 21, 2021
the official video of
"Dancing Queen"
the biggest global success of ABBA
exceeded 500,000,000 views on UA-cam
and #ABBA remastered it in HD
Spectacular image, it's like being there with Them
thanks so much to ABBA
and congratulations to
Agnetha Fälkstog
Benny Andersson
Björn Ulvaeus
Anni Frid Lyngstad
The soundtrack to my childhood xx
And everytime I listen to this it's like listening to it floor the first time. x
Agnetha Fältskog (mistake type)
I think everybody has a favourite Abba song. This is up there, but for me SOS get he nod? Musically, lyrically and vocally. A great refreshing review
Thanks for this thoughtful and insightful analysis of my favorite pop song. It is indeed something special and I think you capture well what it is that makes it so special.
You're very welcome and thank you x
Really enjoying your reaction and deep dive into this song. This song really captures the vibe of the early disco era 🎵🎵🎵.
I was wondering which ABBA song you would look at. A few months ago I looked at all their albums and there's definitely plenty more to them even beyond the singles. Dancing Queen is their biggest hit but they definitely did much more, not all of it disco even. Sometimes there can be a rock, folk, schlager, musical, even classical influence (intermmezzo no 1).
Of the singles Chiquitita is a major ballad, as is Thank You For the Music (Benny Andersson did a nice piano version of that). The Name of the Game is an unusual stately kind of mid-tempo song which is quite a few people's favourite, Money Money Money and Knowing Me Knowing You are also heavyweights. The best videos they did are probably the last two songs I mentioned. I constantly played The Name of the Game a few months back.
I actually had the Name of the Game lined up in November but for some reason didn't follow through. Back in the 70s my mom used to buy a lot of there singles and i always played both sides, although i cannot remember most of their b sides. I do remember vaguely listening to one called the Eagle, but i have no recolection of how it went. xx
@@gpreactions3194 Eagle is a great track, quite progressive sounding.
One of the best b-sides was Happy Hawaii which was on the Knowing Me Knowing You single. This was originally meant to be on the Arrival album but they changed the song into Why Did It Have To Be Me. But many prefer the original version which was finally released as a b-side.
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"Eagle"
an extraordinary track aperture of a greatest "ABBA The Album"
"The name of the game" sublime piece, but was #1 only in UK
All these songs included in "The Album" are true mssterpieces,
specialy the metal rock "Hole in your soul"
ABBA is so versatil
I enjoyed your personal thoughts, sounded like a meditation quality to it, on Dancing Queen. You mentioned a melancholy feel to it. Like a lot of ABBA songs, this is a rather sad song. It's the point of view which is the trick that Bjorn used. Anyway, there are quite a few takes on this. One interesting take is from Vice.com writer Agnus Harrison. www.vice.com/en/article/gvnwx4/abba-dancing-queen-essay. It's another perspective. He mentions some things you talked about, for example the loss of carefree youth. I'm not trying to take the joy from the song that you have. Song is in my top five ABBA songs. Actually, most ABBA songs hit my top five.