Abba - The Winner Take it All - Panflute - Eduardo Garcia The Winner Takes It All is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA. Released as the first single from the groups 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 singles B-side was the non-album track Elaine. History The Winner Takes It All, original demo title The Story of My Life, was written by both Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson, with Agnetha Fältskog singing the lead vocal. The lyrics to the song were thought to mirror the divorce between Ulvaeus and Fältskog in 1979, similar to the 1981 song When All Is Said and Done, in which Ulvaeus deals with the divorce between Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Benny Andersson in 1981. Ulvaeus denies the song is about his and Fältskogs divorce, saying the basis of the song is the experience of a divorce, but its fiction. There wasnt a winner or a loser in our case. A lot of people think its straight out of reality, but its not.[1] 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.[2] 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. Ulvaeus also wrote the lyrics for Fältskogs 1979 live number Im Still Alive. In a 1999 poll for Channel Five, The Winner Takes It All was voted Britains favourite ABBA song. This feat was replicated in a 2010 poll for ITV. In a 2006 poll for a Channel Five programme, The Winner Takes It All was voted Britains Favourite Break-Up Song. https://youtube/watch?v=uC0Em_ECKO4
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