Completely agree, also on other "happy songs" of them they are always smiling, nowadays artists are always depressed like they doing a special favour on being what they are, with ABBA this didn't happen, they were always genuinely smiling.
We hear this song every new year's eve at 00.00 on our national radio one (I'm writing from Finland, the neighbor of Sweden). Personally, my new year's eve isn't complete without hearing this song as the first thing to give a lift for the upcoming year. I have loved ABBA since I was 7 or so, at the time of Waterloo, and Agnetha was my first crush back then...
When I was nine years old, in 1977 I heard "Take A Chance On Me" and I was SOLD on ABBA. I became obsessed with them and thankfully my parents fed that obsession, getting me all their albums. I've loved them for the rest of my life ever since. I'm always so happy when someone else loves them!
Almost every year end r around Xmas time we were waiting with excitemant the new Abba album.I lived again that dream in Nov.21 after a 4 decades gap!Finally an oasis after all that drought.
I had the fortune to meet all members of ABBA back in 1980 when they were guests of CBS at a hotel I worked in. Remember serving them their champagne and asking them all for an autograph on a napkin I had at hand. Great memories. "Wishing You All A Very, Very Happy New Year". ❤️ 🏴
Spot on Jay :) Agnetha Fältskog´s voice is clear as a diamond and soft as silk, at the same time.. And when Anni-Frid joins in with her warm deeper voice to make the perfect duo, even the angels gets jealous :D
@@vanessafletcher6710 Me three! I grew up with ABBA's music on the radio, but never bought their albums, so I only knew their hits. Then this past year I bought all their albums on CDs, so I could hear their other songs that were not released as singles. I really liked them too. I was so happy when they released one more album 40 years later!
I think even the saddest Abba songs have bits of happiness, positive "lightness" and hope sprinkled in, due to the extreme talents and unique contributions of all 4 members
Our radio station (in Germany) plays this song every new year at midnight sharp! It's the most important part about the New Year's celebrations for me and it just gives me hope and joy. Happy New Year! :D
ABBA - Knowing me Knowing you - Fernando - SOS - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Does your Mother know - Dancing Queen - Angel Eyes - Waterloo - Lay your Love on me - Super Trouper - Voulez Vous
Absolutely, I'm also from the GDR - "at the end of 89" the wall had just fallen down making my hometown Berlin ONE big city again. I had just turned 25. What a time! What a prophetic song! This line still gives me goosebumps 🤗
@@ingvarjensen1088 If you knew how hated ABBA was in the 70's by the left wing/communist music establishment for their "commersial music". I'm glad ABBA gave you a song to celebrate freedom
I am a lifelong hard rocker, but ABBA has always been a guilty pleasure! My favorite ABBA song is Knowing Me Knowing You. I think you guys will really like that one, but if you do it you must do the video. Great reaction as always guys!
you are not the only one.I got a cousn iwho was into punk music.Abba's records and 7 inch vynils were hidden well within the albums of The Sex Pistols and The Damned lol.
I went back and watched a few of your other reactions to them. You commented on the toxic relationship in "Mamma Mia." I'm sure others have told you by now, that Agnetha and Bjorn (the guitarist) and Frida and Benny (the bearded pianist) were married, and subsequently divorced, yet they still worked together. They did a great job, but I'm sure there was a lot of pain and sorrow and they were able to channel that into some of the best music ever. Light pop melodies often covering dark or painful lyrics. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a really wonderful example of this and a fantastic song.
I think anyone who was aware of the band at all back when, knows just how autobiographical and heartbreaking :The WInner Takes It All" was at the time... The fans having to deal with the double trauma of both couples splitting, not amicably either. And then just a year or so later they broke up the band itself. I really do think THAT song has left it's mark on anyone who has heard it and saw their own lives sung out so painfully.
Regarding the lyrics which Amber touched on as sounding sad, I think that's what makes the song great, actually - it's realistic. For most of us, when we look back at the past year, there is always a bit of melancholy when we think of things that didn't go right (either for us or for others) or things we wanted to accomplish but did not. And the next follow-up lyric is saying that we should strive for hope, otherwise there's no point to life; it's _not_ saying we should just give up and die, but just the opposite: that we should embrace the idea of a better future, as that is what fully living is all about.
I must admit I understand the melancholy that many feel about New Year. Many people have regrets about the previous year and I find the practice of giving oneself targets to be stressful pressure I could do without on what is supposed to be a celebration. There's also the fact it signals the end of the holiday season (at least in my country) and a return to normal life during what is a cold dark time of year. Still there is the sense of a new purpose and energy that offsets this.
Many have considered this song which was released in 1980 to be prophetic especially in this line "we don't know what's waiting down that line, in the end of '89". The end of '89 was also the mark of the end of the Soviet Russia.
Well, the Soviet Union, yes. Russia sadly has slid backward, or sideways, as is all too evident now. But that period around 1990 was, indeed, such a time of hope, and in some places where it had been absent, democracy that came in then holds on still...
This was off their 1980 album Super Trouper, the same album that spawned "The Winner Takes It All". I think you'd also love the title track, as well as "Lay All Your Love On Me" and "On and On and On". I hope you'll also check out "I Have a Dream" at some point, it's truly breathtaking. Happy New Year, indeed! (And I think it's pronounced ag-NYET-a)
I love this song. Every new year, listen to it and tears always come to my eyes, happy that it's a new beginning but when think back on the year we leaving behind, always had to say goodbye to a loved one or a friend. It makes me feel sad, like I am writing this message and tears are rolling down my face, for all who didn't make it to this new year.
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC, without a song and a dance where you would we be?Without the four what would they be? The synergy of the collective YES!! Thank you for the music and the love, joy and sweet, sweet memories they bring every time I hear that awesome raw talent that is ABBA❤❤❤
It has literally been 40 years since I heard this song and I drew strange looks in Marine barracks as the other guys were either into Led Zeppelin or Michael Jackson. We were the last barracks to get cable TV (long story) and MTV would take a year or two to show ABBA. Thanks for the reminder.
I didn't expect to see you review this ABBA lovely song. You are right, it is about hope for the future, keep moving forward, despite today, the past, etc. You will seldom find a fully cheery ABBA song because the guys wrote real life...often their own. That means a mix of happy and sad, and sometimes profound such as He Is Your Brother. Keep listening to these icons of music. Agnetha's soprano so sharp and crystal clear and Frida's (Annifrid...an actual Princess) mezzo so rich and full. Gorgeous music.
Great way to start the New Year, hopefully you'll do some more ABBA during the years. Some song suggestions: - "Slipping Through My Fingers" - as parents, you have to do this one - "Does Your Mother Know" - one of the guys sings lead - "I Let the Music Speak" - Frida's most awesome performance - "The Visitors" - edgy and very relevant to current events
Yes, I would love them to listen to 'Slipping through my fingers'....there will be tears. (I didn't even know this song until I saw the film 'Mama Mia' at the cinema with my own daughter....there were tears 😥)
This song is on repeat every new years eve. A happy/sad feeling and another great song with ABBA. Next one with ABBA??? - Slipping through my fingers - Lay all your love on me - The day before you came. 3 fantastic songs. Pleaaaase react to them :)
My top favourite Abba song is Summer Night City. Also love Does Your Mother Know, Voulez Vous, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, Under Attack and The Name of the Game. Happy New Year guys! Love you both! :)
Little known fact about ABBA: ”The girls”, as Benny likes to call them, always had a lot of input into the vocal arrangements - arguably the most intricate vocal arrangements in pop history. (Especially Agnetha has claimed partial ownership, and she was an accomplished songwriter before joining ABBA). Lyricist Bjorn had one regret about this song: That he dated it with by referencing 1989 in the final verse. (This was their goodbye to a decade, the 70s - ”their” decade).
All their songs have meaning. But my favorite are 'The Visitor's 'Lay all your love on Me' 'On and on and on' 'Super trouper' . Do them you'll understand why. All the best in the New Year.
It can be rather melancholy for me. Ready for a fresh start, but sometimes burdened with heavy things from the year we just closed out. I am more an optimist than a pessimist, so it all comes out in the wash. Love you guys & I am so grateful to have y'all in my life. 🥰
🇩🇪👈Hier wird das Lied ziemlich oft Silvester um Mitternacht gespielt.Mich zieht die melancholische Melidie dann immer für ein paar Minuten runter auch um das vergangene Jahr Revue passieren zu lassen 🤗
I remember hearing this song when it came out in 1980 as I was turning ten and thinking how strange it was to be entering a new decade that I knew nothing about. It seemed like the song was about leaving behind what you know and facing a new world and decade as a kid it really resonated with me. The harmonies and melody really touched me and they still do 43 years later.
What you maybe didn't know: The song was written on an airplaine to Barbados and the idea came up to extend it to a whole musical. On Barbados they met Python John Cleese and asked him if he would help writing this musical. Imagine what would have come out of it, if this would have worked out :D Nevertheless after several failed attempts (Thank you for the music...) to write a proper musical, the guys did it 3 years later after having disbanded and divorced from the girls. CHESS was born - imo one of the greatest musicals ever written (collaboration with lyricist TIm Rice) - Check out: Merano (opening), One Night in Bangkok, I know him so well (one of the most beautiful duetts ever) and Anthem - a song that til now I can't listen to without crying like a baby. I am far from a musical lover but Chess is a masterpiece covering all kind of styles and genres from classical, to a capella, hard rock, folk and pop weaved in a very moving story.
Abba put out a new CD last year, you might want to check out 'I Still Have Faith In You' it's amazing how much they sound just like they did in the 70's especially when they harmonize
considering thos women are now IN THEIR OWN 70s (haha) they are amazing.. You can hear the realiies of aging vocal cords, but the clarity is still flawless
Sad how the "record store" is now almost a vanished thing. I have still not seen the 2021 ABBA CD anywhere yet, and have only heard brief clips of a couple of the songs online...and I live in a substantial city in a very heavily populated area.
I've listened to ABBA since they started and yet never heard this tune until just now. Not one of their hits, obviously, but still has a beautiful ring while delivering a message of hope... and regret? She's on the sofa; he's standing at the window. Why aren't they together celebrating? ABBA always draws you in.
I hope you guys can watch and do many more ABBA videos..they are the crop of the cream as I see it in music and the reactions too...this is yet another great classic ABBA songs..
Monumental and melancholy! Lyrics also are always so relevant every new year, everyone should be playing this every new year! Happy New Year Jordan and Amber , much love and many blessing to your whole family in 2023! 🙏🏾♥️✌🏾👍🏾🎇🎆🎉🎊
If you have not heard Abba "Under Attack" yet, I highly recommend. It is also the last music video they filmed back in the day. It's a perfect song that is fitting for their end of that era, while at the same time being the first song in a long time that sounded like Abba at the beginning. Also "If It Wasn't For the Nights" is an Abba song that always gets overlooked, but is terrific.
Happy new year!!! Great pick!! Ive listen to this every year!! Abba I have been listening to since the early 70's. The new year to me means a time to reflect on the past year and how I've grown spiritually, taking that into the new year with positive thoughts ❤️!
In this entire song the most interesting comes at the very end. Here's the end of third verse: It's the end of a decade In another ten years time Who can say what we'll find What lies waiting down the line In the end of eighty-nine Indeed. At the end of '89 the world was very much different than 10 years before.
ABBA had phenomenal talent ! If you want some rockin' ABBA - try "Hey Hey Helen", "So Long", "Hole In Your Soul". Or for some good old fashioned rock & roll - "Why Did It Have To Be Me". Plenty to choose from. Don't discount their early stuff from 1975 or before.
It is indeed as Jordan says. When I see happy New Year written somewhere, this wistful songs is humming in my head. Thank you for another great reaction! We love your ying and yang! Wishing you a happy New Year ✨✨
Agnetha ( ag-nee-yay-ta) has a beautiful voice...its delicate & beautifully controlled one minute then powerful and soaring the next BUT..... Anni-Frid (Anne-ee-freed) is easily as good. PLEASE do a reaction to " Our Last Summer " by ABBA.... Anni-Frid absolutely Nails It. The Emotion, vibrato, pitching and her crescendo build to the very last note as it fades out...is worthy of a mention. Please please please 🙏
Thank you so much for this reaction and a very happy new year to everyone!😊🎉 A meaningful song with depth, I would say. ABBA is always worth to be played. „One of us“, „Summer night city“ and „Eagles“ could be your next reactions.😉
Hello again Thanks for your new reaction to ABBA songs This is an ABBA song classic for all December/January dates A beautiful song with a soft melody at the beginning, a melancholic lyrics with the beautiful and very sweet interpretation of the blonde singer Agnetha, a brilliant chorus with the brunette Frida (especially the power of her second voice in the second and third stanza) and a catchy chorus with the melody that grows and falls in love All ingredients of ABBA The lyrics are so emotional, contrast with an very catchy chorus It's no funny, it's melancolich, but have a message of hope "Happy New Year" (1980) is a great song from the "Super Trouper" album (which includes the homonymous song and "The winner takes it all" among others) It has a version in Spanish: "Felicidad" which was a hit here in my country Argentina "Happy new year" have two ABBA official videos, these in English and another in Spanish, and an only TV perfomance in France 1980, and now a new ABBA official lyric video inthe end of 2022 in last November 2021, ABBA include a Christmas song tittle "Little things" in their new album "Voyage", that also was released as a single with a special video with childrens ABBA donated your royalties to UNICEF, as ABBA did before in 1979 with "Chiquitita" Best wishes to you with good music My best regards from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 South America Happy new year 2023
It’s a beautiful song. Nice reaction guys. ✌️ Please consider a (Live) ABBA reaction, this one sounded so good that they included it on their upcoming album, as a live track. It’s called “The Way Old Friends Do” live at Wembley, London. Link in the reply . Thanks 🙏🏻
✨🧨HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎇 I've loved this song since I was a little kid - I think my parent's had it on an 8-track (Lord, I'm old)... Please consider ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know" & Bonnie Pointer's "Heaven Must Have Sent You" & Everything But The Girl's "Missing" & "Before Today" - keep smiling y'all!! 🥳🥳🥳
Happy New Year! They released a new album last year called Voyage. Not sure if you've done "Fernando" "Honey, Honey" "Super Trouper" "Does Your Mother Know" "Thank You For The Music" "Money, Money, Money" "The Name Of The Game" "Slipping Through My Fingers" "Ring, Ring" "The Day Before You Came" "I Still Have Faith In You" "I Have A Dream" and many more. Have fun in choosing what to next.
They never released this as a single in the UK and i think if they had it would hve been another no.1 maybe even the coverted Christmas no.1 but all the same great lyrics, great melody and great voices. Glad yoiu guys are still dipping your toes into ABBA. There are loads more gems to discover.
The second verse in this song is probably the single greatest piece of poetry ever written in pop music, period. It took me 35 years of listening to this song on New Years Eve and during the year on the radio occasionally to finally one time listen to the actual lyrics and understand them and damn! that verse summarizes human nature like nothing else. I'll just paste those lyrics here for anyone who might have missed them so far, like i did for so much time: "Sometimes I see How the brave new world arrives And I see how it thrives In the ashes of our lives Oh yes, Man is a fool And he thinks he'll be okay Dragging on, feet of clay Never knowing he's astray Keeps on going anyway."
The blonde ABBA babe Agnetha Faltskog had a number of solo European hit songs that never made it big in North America. If you love her voice here are some songs to check out: 1) The Last Time (Her nicest song out of this batch). 2) I Stand Alone 3) Man 4) The Angels Cry 5) I Wasn't The One (Who Said Goodbye) (This is a duet with Peter Cetera from the band "Chicago"). Lastly, Frida Lyngstad had a pretty good '82 hit song "I Know There's Something Going On." (Phil Collins plays the drums on this song).
You guys should listen to Barry Manilow’s, It’s Just Another New Years Eve… even after the holidays. It’s such a beautiful song. Fun fact: Barry used to sing it before the countdown on Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve, when Dick still hosted it. It was a tradition for Barry to perform it every year.✌🏼🦋💛
Amber & Jordan, I want to wish U n ur luving fam A Happy New Years 2023!!! May the new year bring ur fam Happiness, Joy, Good Luck n the most important thing is ur Health. Without health we R not able to accomplish what we should be accomplishing. God Bless u guys n ur luving fam.
Agnetha is great, but if you want to hear some songs with Frida in lead vocals, I’d recommend “Fernando” and/or “Knowing Me, Knowing You”. 2 of ABBA’s biggest hits! Their most popular song though is Dancing Queen. Not sure if you guys have done it yet.
I've mentioned this group here before, but one 60's group none of the YT reactors seem to have discovered is The Association. They were big from about 1967-1969. Their hits include Cherish, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You, and Windy. They reformed in later years with various different lineups, so the trick is to make sure to get a video from the 60's.
I'm glad you guys came back to ABBA. Recall your first reaction to ABBA. The song was "The Winner Takes It All", Agnetha's favorite ABBA song. During that same performance they did another song that was totally different. Check out the video "ABBA - On And On And On (1980) HD 0815007". And there are more titles you guys will appreciate. Some are well known "voulez vous ", others not as well known "Hole In Your Soul". For "Hole In Your Soul" I recommend the "ABBA In Concert" version.
Y'all love ABBA so much I'm surprised you haven't done the movie "Moma Mia! " on the movie channel. I know I have suggested it before and others probably have, too.
The thing that is so genius about Abba is that many of their songs are very uplifting and very melancholy at the same time.
Very true , a contempery group who do this very well too is Chvrchs , brilliant uplifting lead vocallist but quite dark lyrics .
Completely agree, also on other "happy songs" of them they are always smiling, nowadays artists are always depressed like they doing a special favour on being what they are, with ABBA this didn't happen, they were always genuinely smiling.
Well spoken, sir!
Thats true
Mamma Mia, a prime example.
It's called melancholy, and it's deeply rooted in the nordic spirit. It permeates all of ABBA's songs.
We hear this song every new year's eve at 00.00 on our national radio one (I'm writing from Finland, the neighbor of Sweden). Personally, my new year's eve isn't complete without hearing this song as the first thing to give a lift for the upcoming year. I have loved ABBA since I was 7 or so, at the time of Waterloo, and Agnetha was my first crush back then...
You can't go wrong with ABBA, they have so so many hits, you can listen to each album form start to finish and love them all
Maybe besides the very first 1 or 2 albums, this is literally true!
Agreed 😊
I agree with you 200% - can't ever go wrong with ABBA !!
You are right.About 60 of their song has been number 1 in a lot of countrys
When I was nine years old, in 1977 I heard "Take A Chance On Me" and I was SOLD on ABBA. I became obsessed with them and thankfully my parents fed that obsession, getting me all their albums. I've loved them for the rest of my life ever since. I'm always so happy when someone else loves them!
I first heard ABBA when Waterloo came out & have loved them ever...I was VERY sad when I heard that both couples had divorced 😔
Almost every year end r around Xmas time we were waiting with excitemant the new Abba album.I lived again that dream in Nov.21 after a 4 decades gap!Finally an oasis after all that drought.
I had the fortune to meet all members of ABBA back in 1980 when they were guests of CBS at a hotel I worked in. Remember serving them their champagne and asking them all for an autograph on a napkin I had at hand. Great memories. "Wishing You All A Very, Very Happy New Year". ❤️ 🏴
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Do you still have that napkin? Just curious...........
¡Qué suerte la tuya!
Good luck yours!
I envy you
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awesome
amazing experience!
Spot on Jay :) Agnetha Fältskog´s voice is clear as a diamond and soft as silk, at the same time.. And when Anni-Frid joins in with her warm deeper voice to make the perfect duo, even the angels gets jealous :D
I've been listening to ABBA since 1976 and I'll never get tired of listening to them!!
me too, 1976
@@vanessafletcher6710 Me three! I grew up with ABBA's music on the radio, but never bought their albums, so I only knew their hits. Then this past year I bought all their albums on CDs, so I could hear their other songs that were not released as singles. I really liked them too. I was so happy when they released one more album 40 years later!
1976 for me as well!
Same here . . and fell for Frida as soon as I saw her . . in one of those teenage couldn't help it moments!
I think even the saddest Abba songs have bits of happiness, positive "lightness" and hope sprinkled in, due to the extreme talents and unique contributions of all 4 members
Our radio station (in Germany) plays this song every new year at midnight sharp! It's the most important part about the New Year's celebrations for me and it just gives me hope and joy. Happy New Year! :D
ABBA - Knowing me Knowing you - Fernando - SOS - Gimme Gimme Gimme - Does your Mother know - Dancing Queen - Angel Eyes - Waterloo - Lay your Love on me - Super Trouper - Voulez Vous
Never heard this song 🎵 from ABBA. Really good song!!! 👍 I really like it.
" ... in the end of '89". I grow up in the GDR. But we know and hear ABBA too. This textline was like a prediction. ABBA ❤
So hab' ich das noch nie gesehen! Danke!
Absolutely, I'm also from the GDR - "at the end of 89" the wall had just fallen down making my hometown Berlin ONE big city again. I had just turned 25. What a time! What a prophetic song! This line still gives me goosebumps 🤗
Such a time of hope that was.
@@ingvarjensen1088 If you knew how hated ABBA was in the 70's by the left wing/communist music establishment for their "commersial music". I'm glad ABBA gave you a song to celebrate freedom
I am a lifelong hard rocker, but ABBA has always been a guilty pleasure! My favorite ABBA song is Knowing Me Knowing You. I think you guys will really like that one, but if you do it you must do the video. Great reaction as always guys!
you are not the only one.I got a cousn iwho was into punk music.Abba's records and 7 inch vynils were hidden well within the albums of The Sex Pistols and The Damned lol.
Not Quite as good as Michael McDonald's wonderful, house full of love!
I went back and watched a few of your other reactions to them. You commented on the toxic relationship in "Mamma Mia." I'm sure others have told you by now, that Agnetha and Bjorn (the guitarist) and Frida and Benny (the bearded pianist) were married, and subsequently divorced, yet they still worked together. They did a great job, but I'm sure there was a lot of pain and sorrow and they were able to channel that into some of the best music ever. Light pop melodies often covering dark or painful lyrics. "Knowing Me, Knowing You" is a really wonderful example of this and a fantastic song.
I think anyone who was aware of the band at all back when, knows just how autobiographical and heartbreaking :The WInner Takes It All" was at the time... The fans having to deal with the double trauma of both couples splitting, not amicably either. And then just a year or so later they broke up the band itself. I really do think THAT song has left it's mark on anyone who has heard it and saw their own lives sung out so painfully.
Regarding the lyrics which Amber touched on as sounding sad, I think that's what makes the song great, actually - it's realistic. For most of us, when we look back at the past year, there is always a bit of melancholy when we think of things that didn't go right (either for us or for others) or things we wanted to accomplish but did not. And the next follow-up lyric is saying that we should strive for hope, otherwise there's no point to life; it's _not_ saying we should just give up and die, but just the opposite: that we should embrace the idea of a better future, as that is what fully living is all about.
I must admit I understand the melancholy that many feel about New Year. Many people have regrets about the previous year and I find the practice of giving oneself targets to be stressful pressure I could do without on what is supposed to be a celebration. There's also the fact it signals the end of the holiday season (at least in my country) and a return to normal life during what is a cold dark time of year. Still there is the sense of a new purpose and energy that offsets this.
Many have considered this song which was released in 1980 to be prophetic especially in this line "we don't know what's waiting down that line, in the end of '89". The end of '89 was also the mark of the end of the Soviet Russia.
Well, the Soviet Union, yes. Russia sadly has slid backward, or sideways, as is all too evident now. But that period around 1990 was, indeed, such a time of hope, and in some places where it had been absent, democracy that came in then holds on still...
This was off their 1980 album Super Trouper, the same album that spawned "The Winner Takes It All". I think you'd also love the title track, as well as "Lay All Your Love On Me" and "On and On and On". I hope you'll also check out "I Have a Dream" at some point, it's truly breathtaking. Happy New Year, indeed! (And I think it's pronounced ag-NYET-a)
Lay your love on me was a big favorite of mine. I also loved Andante Andante
Great recommendations!
no Hard G in the swedish "gn" combination
I love this song. Every new year, listen to it and tears always come to my eyes, happy that it's a new beginning but when think back on the year we leaving behind, always had to say goodbye to a loved one or a friend. It makes me feel sad, like I am writing this message and tears are rolling down my face, for all who didn't make it to this new year.
It's always something to remember these songs were recorded without the use of auto tune... Which tells you just how good they were
THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC, without a song and a dance where you would we be?Without the four what would they be? The synergy of the collective YES!! Thank you for the music and the love, joy and sweet, sweet memories they bring every time I hear that awesome raw talent that is ABBA❤❤❤
Musicians like Abba were telling stories with their songs and what a great arrangement that was. I love the melancholic vibe of the song.
I have grown up with this group and their music and will enjoy them until the last breath I draw whenever that shall be.
Voulez-Vous, Does Your Mama Know, Eagle...back in the 80's, my mom had the greatest hits and we listened to it all the time.
Can’t go wrong with ABBA!
They are flawless! What can I say that hasn’t been said! Thank God for ABBA!
You both would like "Slipping Through My Fingers ", Bjorn wrote it about their daughter Linda and Agnetha sings it. It is just beautiful.
Good suggestion!
I can never help but cry with this song, because I can so relate.
@@susansokoloski2233 And it's not just a mother/daughter thing because it gets me the same way.
@@rayjennings3637 well, me too but I think of my relationship with my mother when I hear this. ❤
ABBAs music will outlive us all. Happy new year earthlings!
Amber says "It's kinda happy and it's kinda sad." Perfect description of every ABBA song ever.
OMG! A Abba song that I have never ever heard before! Once again, it's great. They can do no wrong. ❤🎵
Lord, I love their sound.
It has literally been 40 years since I heard this song and I drew strange looks in Marine barracks as the other guys were either into Led Zeppelin or Michael Jackson. We were the last barracks to get cable TV (long story) and MTV would take a year or two to show ABBA. Thanks for the reminder.
I was an ABBA fan in the Corps as well (77-81) Semper Fi, BE WELL! OORAH!
Epic vocals! Rock and Roller by heart, but these gals have always had a special place in my feels!
They make singing look so effortlessly beautiful 😊
Do yourselves a favor and hear the "Super Trouper" ABBA's album that cointain this song, along many more songs as unforgettable as this is.
I didn't expect to see you review this ABBA lovely song. You are right, it is about hope for the future, keep moving forward, despite today, the past, etc. You will seldom find a fully cheery ABBA song because the guys wrote real life...often their own. That means a mix of happy and sad, and sometimes profound such as He Is Your Brother. Keep listening to these icons of music. Agnetha's soprano so sharp and crystal clear and Frida's (Annifrid...an actual Princess) mezzo so rich and full. Gorgeous music.
Great way to start the New Year, hopefully you'll do some more ABBA during the years. Some song suggestions:
- "Slipping Through My Fingers" - as parents, you have to do this one
- "Does Your Mother Know" - one of the guys sings lead
- "I Let the Music Speak" - Frida's most awesome performance
- "The Visitors" - edgy and very relevant to current events
Oh yes, I'd love to see Jay and Amber do Slipping Through My Fingers. They'd melt...
Yes, I would love them to listen to 'Slipping through my fingers'....there will be tears. (I didn't even know this song until I saw the film 'Mama Mia' at the cinema with my own daughter....there were tears 😥)
This song is on repeat every new years eve. A happy/sad feeling and another great song with ABBA. Next one with ABBA??? - Slipping through my fingers - Lay all your love on me - The day before you came. 3 fantastic songs. Pleaaaase react to them :)
My top favourite Abba song is Summer Night City. Also love Does Your Mother Know, Voulez Vous, Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, Under Attack and The Name of the Game. Happy New Year guys! Love you both! :)
I absolutely love Andante Andante and I am an eagle
The thing about ABBA is that both the girls have beautiful voices but when they sing in harmony it takes it to another level.
Little known fact about ABBA: ”The girls”, as Benny likes to call them, always had a lot of input into the vocal arrangements - arguably the most intricate vocal arrangements in pop history. (Especially Agnetha has claimed partial ownership, and she was an accomplished songwriter before joining ABBA). Lyricist Bjorn had one regret about this song: That he dated it with by referencing 1989 in the final verse. (This was their goodbye to a decade, the 70s - ”their” decade).
Happy New Year to you guys
ABBA never dissapoint 👌
Love ❤️ from Chile 🇨🇱😘👍
All their songs have meaning. But my favorite are 'The Visitor's 'Lay all your love on Me' 'On and on and on' 'Super trouper' . Do them you'll understand why. All the best in the New Year.
It can be rather melancholy for me. Ready for a fresh start, but sometimes burdened with heavy things from the year we just closed out. I am more an optimist than a pessimist, so it all comes out in the wash. Love you guys & I am so grateful to have y'all in my life. 🥰
Benny and Bjorn are amazingly talented songs writers and composers.
🇩🇪👈Hier wird das Lied ziemlich oft Silvester um Mitternacht gespielt.Mich zieht die melancholische Melidie dann immer für ein paar Minuten runter auch um das vergangene Jahr Revue passieren zu lassen 🤗
I grew up with ABBA. Happy New Year!
I remember hearing this song when it came out in 1980 as I was turning ten and thinking how strange it was to be entering a new decade that I knew nothing about. It seemed like the song was about leaving behind what you know and facing a new world and decade as a kid it really resonated with me. The harmonies and melody really touched me and they still do 43 years later.
What you maybe didn't know: The song was written on an airplaine to Barbados and the idea came up to extend it to a whole musical. On Barbados they met Python John Cleese and asked him if he would help writing this musical. Imagine what would have come out of it, if this would have worked out :D
Nevertheless after several failed attempts (Thank you for the music...) to write a proper musical, the guys did it 3 years later after having disbanded and divorced from the girls. CHESS was born - imo one of the greatest musicals ever written (collaboration with lyricist TIm Rice) - Check out: Merano (opening), One Night in Bangkok, I know him so well (one of the most beautiful duetts ever) and Anthem - a song that til now I can't listen to without crying like a baby. I am far from a musical lover but Chess is a masterpiece covering all kind of styles and genres from classical, to a capella, hard rock, folk and pop weaved in a very moving story.
Abba put out a new CD last year, you might want to check out 'I Still Have Faith In You' it's amazing how much they sound just like they did in the 70's especially when they harmonize
considering thos women are now IN THEIR OWN 70s (haha) they are amazing.. You can hear the realiies of aging vocal cords, but the clarity is still flawless
Sad how the "record store" is now almost a vanished thing. I have still not seen the 2021 ABBA CD anywhere yet, and have only heard brief clips of a couple of the songs online...and I live in a substantial city in a very heavily populated area.
I love ABBA. I love this song. And I love this reaction video. Happy New Year everyone ✨ 💛 💖
I've listened to ABBA since they started and yet never heard this tune until just now. Not one of their hits, obviously, but still has a beautiful ring while delivering a message of hope... and regret? She's on the sofa; he's standing at the window. Why aren't they together celebrating? ABBA always draws you in.
I hope you guys can watch and do many more ABBA videos..they are the crop of the cream as I see it in music and the reactions too...this is yet another great classic ABBA songs..
If you haven´t heard or reacted to Abba´s I have a dream, I think you would love it.
Oh....I love ABBA and this song is one of my favorites. 😊👍
PS.... Happy New Year to you and your family!
To hear how also fantastic the other singer - Frida - is, please check out "Fernando" or "Knowing Me, Knowing You".
Monumental and melancholy! Lyrics also are always so relevant every new year, everyone should be playing this every new year! Happy New Year Jordan and Amber , much love and many blessing to your whole family in 2023! 🙏🏾♥️✌🏾👍🏾🎇🎆🎉🎊
Try 'Voulez-Vous' or 'Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!' for some upbeat songs from ABBA.
If you have not heard Abba "Under Attack" yet, I highly recommend. It is also the last music video they filmed back in the day. It's a perfect song that is fitting for their end of that era, while at the same time being the first song in a long time that sounded like Abba at the beginning. Also "If It Wasn't For the Nights" is an Abba song that always gets overlooked, but is terrific.
Happy new year!!! Great pick!! Ive listen to this every year!! Abba I have been listening to since the early 70's. The new year to me means a time to reflect on the past year and how I've grown spiritually, taking that into the new year with positive thoughts ❤️!
In this entire song the most interesting comes at the very end. Here's the end of third verse:
It's the end of a decade
In another ten years time
Who can say what we'll find
What lies waiting down the line
In the end of eighty-nine
Indeed. At the end of '89 the world was very much different than 10 years before.
Thanks, Jay & Amber! I really love this... the dichotomous mood resonates deeply with me. 🍾 #RobSquadReactions #HappyNewYear #ABBA
I'm a huge abba fan .. i love them ... And i love your reaction ... Happy new year guys
Jay & Amber, you'll love their "Dancing Queen", "Waterloo" and "Fernando" !!! These were huge hits!
Comercial rubbish compaired to their talent
@@kympridham8267 every ABBA song no matter how popular or unpopular is incredible
Don't forget "Winner takes it all" 😄
I think they may have already reacted to those …
@@RyanMcnll Every band has great song and brilliant
ABBA had phenomenal talent ! If you want some rockin' ABBA - try "Hey Hey Helen", "So Long", "Hole In Your Soul". Or for some good old fashioned rock & roll - "Why Did It Have To Be Me". Plenty to choose from. Don't discount their early stuff from 1975 or before.
"It's kind of happy and kind of sad"...You've just described 80% of ABBA's songs.....
HAPPY NEW YEAR! May your 2023 be full of joy and prosperity.
It is indeed as Jordan says. When I see happy New Year written somewhere, this wistful songs is humming in my head. Thank you for another great reaction! We love your ying and yang! Wishing you a happy New Year ✨✨
Agnetha ( ag-nee-yay-ta) has a beautiful voice...its delicate & beautifully controlled one minute then powerful and soaring the next
BUT.....
Anni-Frid (Anne-ee-freed) is easily as good.
PLEASE do a reaction to " Our Last Summer " by ABBA....
Anni-Frid absolutely Nails It.
The Emotion, vibrato, pitching and her crescendo build to the very last note as it fades out...is worthy of a mention.
Please please please 🙏
Every ABBA song makes you happy!
Thank you so much for this reaction and a very happy new year to everyone!😊🎉 A meaningful song with depth, I would say. ABBA is always worth to be played. „One of us“, „Summer night city“ and „Eagles“ could be your next reactions.😉
You should react to Angel Eyes, is one of my favourites and such a cool song especially the beginning.
Hello again Thanks for your new reaction to ABBA songs
This is an ABBA song classic for all December/January dates A beautiful song with a soft melody at the beginning, a melancholic lyrics with the beautiful and very sweet interpretation of the blonde singer Agnetha, a brilliant chorus with the brunette Frida (especially the power of her second voice in the second and third stanza) and a catchy chorus with the melody that grows and falls in love All ingredients of ABBA
The lyrics are so emotional, contrast with an very catchy chorus It's no funny, it's melancolich, but have a message of hope
"Happy New Year" (1980) is a great song from the "Super Trouper" album (which includes the homonymous song and "The winner takes it all" among others)
It has a version in Spanish: "Felicidad" which was a hit here in my country Argentina
"Happy new year" have two ABBA official videos, these in English and another in Spanish, and an only TV perfomance in France 1980, and now a new ABBA official lyric video inthe end of 2022
in last November 2021, ABBA include a Christmas song tittle "Little things" in their new album "Voyage", that also was released as a single with a special video with childrens
ABBA donated your royalties to UNICEF,
as ABBA did before in 1979 with "Chiquitita"
Best wishes to you with good music
My best regards from
Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷
South America
Happy new year 2023
It’s a beautiful song. Nice reaction guys. ✌️
Please consider a (Live) ABBA reaction, this one sounded so good that they included it on their upcoming album, as a live track.
It’s called “The Way Old Friends Do” live at Wembley, London.
Link in the reply . Thanks 🙏🏻
ua-cam.com/video/rK8MdA2C5r0/v-deo.html
P.S. Agnetha is pronounced Anyetta. 🙂
✨🧨HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎆🎇 I've loved this song since I was a little kid - I think my parent's had it on an 8-track (Lord, I'm old)... Please consider ABBA's "Does Your Mother Know" & Bonnie Pointer's "Heaven Must Have Sent You" & Everything But The Girl's "Missing" & "Before Today" - keep smiling y'all!! 🥳🥳🥳
For some reason their "I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do" FEELS more like New Years.
Happy New Year! They released a new album last year called Voyage. Not sure if you've done "Fernando" "Honey, Honey" "Super Trouper" "Does Your Mother Know" "Thank You For The Music" "Money, Money, Money" "The Name Of The Game" "Slipping Through My Fingers" "Ring, Ring" "The Day Before You Came" "I Still Have Faith In You" "I Have A Dream" and many more. Have fun in choosing what to next.
Wishing you great humanbing. A blessed happy new year. And your beautiful family health and happiness. God's blessings and much love 🥂❤
Love their Chiquitita and One Man, One Woman
They never released this as a single in the UK and i think if they had it would hve been another no.1 maybe even the coverted Christmas no.1 but all the same great lyrics, great melody and great voices. Glad yoiu guys are still dipping your toes into ABBA. There are loads more gems to discover.
The second verse in this song is probably the single greatest piece of poetry ever written in pop music, period. It took me 35 years of listening to this song on New Years Eve and during the year on the radio occasionally to finally one time listen to the actual lyrics and understand them and damn! that verse summarizes human nature like nothing else. I'll just paste those lyrics here for anyone who might have missed them so far, like i did for so much time:
"Sometimes I see
How the brave new world arrives
And I see how it thrives
In the ashes of our lives
Oh yes, Man is a fool
And he thinks he'll be okay
Dragging on, feet of clay
Never knowing he's astray
Keeps on going anyway."
To me, this is one of the best ABBA songs at all
Abba - "Rock me", "I do i do i do", "Honey honey".
Happy new year I am looking forward to all the fun reactions you will be doing this year .
"Knowing Me, Knowing You" is one of their finest! Definitely need to check that one out!
Happy New Year Jay and Amber, AND family. 🎉🎉🎉 Make someone smile everyday! ❤
The blonde ABBA babe Agnetha Faltskog had a number of solo European hit songs that never made it big in North America. If you love her voice here
are some songs to check out: 1) The Last Time (Her nicest song out of this batch). 2) I Stand Alone 3) Man 4) The Angels Cry 5) I Wasn't The One (Who
Said Goodbye) (This is a duet with Peter Cetera from the band "Chicago").
Lastly, Frida Lyngstad had a pretty good '82 hit song "I Know There's Something Going On." (Phil Collins plays the drums on this song).
I play this every New Year, and have done so for more than 20 years.
You guys should listen to Barry Manilow’s, It’s Just Another New Years Eve… even after the holidays. It’s such a beautiful song. Fun fact: Barry used to sing it before the countdown on Dick Clark’s New Years Rockin’ Eve, when Dick still hosted it. It was a tradition for Barry to perform it every year.✌🏼🦋💛
Amber & Jordan, I want to wish U n ur luving fam A Happy New Years 2023!!! May the new year bring ur fam Happiness, Joy, Good Luck n the most important thing is ur Health. Without health we R not able to accomplish what we should be accomplishing. God Bless u guys n ur luving fam.
I play this song every January 1st. (for around 30 years). Love it.
Agnetha is great, but if you want to hear some songs with Frida in lead vocals, I’d recommend “Fernando” and/or “Knowing Me, Knowing You”. 2 of ABBA’s biggest hits!
Their most popular song though is Dancing Queen. Not sure if you guys have done it yet.
Happy New Year May it bring many Blessings to ur family, Peace
I love seeing peoples faces just absolutely light up when they sing the chorus. It is just so good.
ABBA is just incredible. I recommend "Thank you for the music"
I agree that the one genius quality of ABBA's song lyrics is the happy and sad feelings they provoke all at the same time.
I've mentioned this group here before, but one 60's group none of the YT reactors seem to have discovered is The Association. They were big from about 1967-1969. Their hits include Cherish, Never My Love, Everything That Touches You, and Windy. They reformed in later years with various different lineups, so the trick is to make sure to get a video from the 60's.
I'm glad you guys came back to ABBA. Recall your first reaction to ABBA. The song was "The Winner Takes It All", Agnetha's favorite ABBA song. During that same performance they did another song that was totally different. Check out the video "ABBA - On And On And On (1980) HD 0815007". And there are more titles you guys will appreciate. Some are well known "voulez vous ", others not as well known "Hole In Your Soul". For "Hole In Your Soul" I recommend the "ABBA In Concert" version.
Y'all love ABBA so much I'm surprised you haven't done the movie "Moma Mia! " on the movie channel. I know I have suggested it before and others probably have, too.
I 100% agree
My first time hearing this song...I feel happy and sad about my past, and hopeful for the future. I enjoyed all of it.