LISTENING"The Winner Takes It All" is a song recorded by the Swedish pop group ABBA. This page provides information about the song and links to the lyrics and the official video.
Level
Intermediate and advanced students.
Facts about the song
- Song:
The winner Takes it all
- Album:
Super Trouper- Date of release:
21 July 1980- Genre:
Pop, soft rocK- Length of the song:
4 minutes and 54 seconds.- Writers:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
- Produced by:
Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus
Interesting information about the song
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 Fältskog's divorce, saying the basis of the song "is the experience of a divorce, but it's fiction. 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".
The video
The lyrics
Language points
The song includes many interesting language points:
Eexpressions that may be useful to students:
- I don't wanna talk
About things we've gone through
Though it's hurting me
Now it's history
I've played all my cards
And that's what you've done too
Nothing more to say
No more ace to play
Source: Wikipedia
