Simply 80's wishes to share one of it's top 5 songs of all time...ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" is a tribute to all of those out there who have experienced tremendous heartbreak!
This song is a absolute masterpiece in ar…
Simply 80's wishes to share one of it's top 5 songs of all time...ABBA's "The Winner Takes It All" is a tribute to all of those out there who have experienced tremendous heartbreak!
This song is a absolute masterpiece in arrangement and execution in lyric delivery. Listening to this song one can't be overcome with the emotion that is delivered. An emotion that one would not wish on their worst enemy!
This song rates as the best song that ABBA ever released in a recent poll. It hit # 8 on Billboard's Hot 100 in 1980 but #1 on the Adult Contemporary Chart.
"The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA. Released as the first single from the group's Super Trouper album on 21 July 1980, it is a ballad in the key of F-sharp major, reflecting the end of a romance.
"The Winner Takes It All" - which had the original demonstration title "The Story of My Life" - was written by Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal.
Ulvaeus denies the song is about his and Fältskog's divorce, saying the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction. 'Cause one thing I can say is that there wasn't a winner or a loser in our case. A lot of people think it's straight out of reality, but it's not". American critic Chuck Klosterman, who says "The Winner Takes It All" is "[the only] pop song that examines the self-aware guilt one feels when talking to a person who has humanely obliterated your heart" finds Ulvaeus' denial hard to believe in light of the original title. And the booklet for the double CD compilation The Definitive Collection states "'The Winner Takes It All' is the song where Bjorn admits that the sad experience of his and Agnetha's divorce the previous year left its mark on the lyrics."
Fältskog has also repeatedly stated that though "The Winner Takes It All" is her favorite ABBA song and that it has an excellent set of lyrics, the story is not that of her and Ulvaeus: there were no winners in their divorce, especially as children were involved.
In a 1999 poll for Channel 5, "The Winner Takes It All" was voted Britain's favorite ABBA song. This feat was replicated in a 2010 poll for ITV. In a 2006 poll for a Channel Five program, "The Winner Takes It All" was voted "Britain's Favorite Break-Up Song."
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