ABBA Reaction I Let The Music Speak (Audio) | Dereck Reacts

[@JennieWrenStar]

Apparently this is one of Frida’s favourite songs. The lyrics are beautiful. 🌹

[@federicoariel3536]

this song is a masterpiece

[@supastah68]

Frida has the most beautiful voice I have ever heard

[@NatSci]

This is one of DOZENS of lesser-known ABBA songs that are masterpieces.

[@anthonysmith8800]

One word: PERFECTION

[@519forestmonk9]

At 13 years old I heard this first time and it literally almost knocked me over. Not typical for a child but I wasn’t a typical child!

[@Grafrey]

It's a masterpiece! 🥳👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🔥🔥🔥

[@andymcdonald3236]

This is an adult song. Beautiful and professional. You need to be a musical lover to really understand the complex beauty melody in this song.

[@tinnnn1]

I feel he doesn't get it....his hand movements and interpretations are so wrong.

[@semipalatinsk1]

B&B have said, "If ABBA hadn't recorded this song, we probably would have used it for Chess".

[@semipalatinsk1]

@@tinnnn1 If the song is all new to him here, you can't really expect him to have the choreography down can you?

[@vanjalavoie550]

And the wordplay!

[@veronicas.b5907]

@@semipalatinsk1 This whole album is far ahead of its time. The world just wasn't ready for it at the time ❤🙏🙏

[@Anastasia-wo1tz]

Frida , perfect. ❤❤❤

[@joselacao8422]

Frida is top. Wonderful!!!

[@leestephenson7042]

This is my favourite ABBA song

[@paulecrosby2006]

We all adore Frida. ♥ she is always in our hearts. She's had a hard nd difficult life.

[@joelsondiedrichs9543]

Wonderful ABBA. Great job. 👏👏👏

[@dont.wilson2121]

A true masterpiece!

[@jamesdomonte9900]

The Visitors album is a masterpiece!!! 👍

[@daveb9920]

The Visitors might need to be reviewed/reacted to as a whole album instead of by singular tracks. It might not be a concept album, but it has a certain feel to it as a whole that's hard to describe

[@jamesdomonte9900]

Strongly agree with you. The album (to me) is going into a museum. It's mysterious, creative, intriguing & full of wonder.

[@garethkennedy3488]

I love this, it's one of my favourite songs, and just shows the vocal ability of Frida so well. Interestingly, I also feel it is one of the foundations of Chess the musical as you can really hear the similarity in music styles, and chord progressions between this and Chess ... bits of it could almost be from the musical ... of course it wasn't so long after this that they wrote Chess. All in all, I think one of the many hidden gems of ABBA's back catalogue

[@luizinacioschneider784]

This is CLASSIC! ROCK and POP at the same time.....

[@TangoEliott]

Frida. Magic. ABBA, Agnetha, magic. All of them. Frida suits this song. This song suits her

[@VERDEESCORPION1030]

This song has one of the most beautiful lyrics amongst ABBA's songs. 💚💚💚

[@xballsport]

In my opinion this song deserves the attention their top hits received. Besides the incredibly beautiful melody and voice it has huge depth that most people can't understand.

[@josny1]

This song is a Masterpiece

[@moised96]

This is a MASTERPIECE period!!

[@achnabsafiruv3727]

Это за гранью совершенства!!!👏👏👏☺😀😀😀

[@BlytheWorld1972]

Its absolutely stunning her voice just rips into your soul the production is spell bounding .

[@artroyo9202]

Dramatic approach..seems like musical...fantastic...frida lead vocals...🤩🤩🤩😁😁🤗🤗🤗

[@careygustafson495]

Frida Forever

[@jino4280]

I have been an Abba fan for most of my life - they were around for almost all of my childhood. I've listened to their music over and over and I've never really heard all the little musical pieces they put into their tunes until I watched your reactions. Now I'm hearing Abba all over again but not just listening to the girls' voices but hearing the synths, the flutes, the guitars, the piano, the bass, the drums, etc. It's like discovering them all over again! Thanks for opening my eyes... or should I say ears!

[@TangoEliott]

You have to realize the maturity level had grown by the time this song came out. Both for the composers and the performers. They are a mature group. Well done song. It is quite good. Perhaps you have not gone through the same growth that they did as you did not listen to their songs in chronological order. It is a journey.

[@thisworldofwater8017]

It is QUITE good?

[@TangoEliott]

@@thisworldofwater8017 I was trying to not be over zealous. It is FABULOUS

[@TangoEliott]

@My Name Is Dito You said it perfectly. I wonder why people do not realize this, especially after we have told them! You are 100% right.

[@Tom_McMurtry]

@Marvin Morawski I love listening to their albums in order backwards as well to really get a kick out of going back to where they started from

[@TangoEliott]

@@Tom_McMurtry Do you get younger?

[@irenedownie6559]

Have you ever noticed that when you listen to an album there are instant favourites, and there are slow burners? As time passes and you’ve heard all the tracks a few times, the slow burners very often turn into firm favourites. This one falls into that category for me. Frida’s voice is amazing.

[@lolerie]

@Marvin Morawski new album is all slow burners. But I love it now. Quite crazy.

[@erion777spain1]

The best group ever!!!!! I adore abba

[@ysaacwichmann8675]

Awesome , very beautiful !!! Made for minds of genius . This one is a gem and absolute masterpiece forever .

[@sensitivedogs]

Where is the Derek approved? Wow, Derek this is a masterpiece! Complex, melodic, inventive and beautiful and you did not let it take over you! I listen to it and sing it and absolutely love it!

[@Smaugstreasure]

I like the theatrical element of this song combined with Frida's fine vocals. I can imagine this song being used in a ballet or theatre. Very different and unique just as ABBA is and they never disappoint. Thanks for sharing :)

[@stansolo4138]

Frida's voice sounds great on " I WONDER (DEPARTURE) " .....give it a whirl

[@ChrisKbgg]

Yes!! & the live version is even better! 🙌🏼

[@HolgerJakobs]

It's Agnetha singing the lead vocals on "I Wonder".

[@meropale]

@@HolgerJakobs You might be confusing with another song. That song is a Frida solo from beginning to end practically. There is virtually no Agnetha featured on I Wonder, certainly no solo passages and I don't recall hearing her even on any shared passages, if there are any but I don't think so.

[@michielrampaart9565]

@@HolgerJakobs nono Holger. Frida sings I wonder. And one of my fave frida songs. such a beautifull song

[@andreakoschu4660]

@@HolgerJakobs NEIN

[@erikskifte8862]

ABBA DID LET THE MUSIC SPEAK, BETTER THAN ANYONE. POP, ROCK, FOLK, REGGAE, CLASSICAL, COUNTRY, FUNK AND DISCO IN A PERFECT BLEND, RESPECT 💘💘💘💘

[@carlosgarjon8340]

It's a song that seems to belong to a musical. I love it. Frida's vocals are among her best ever.

[@mirjanabittar7781]

Frida's vibrato is unique ! ❤❤

[@ysaacwichmannantinao3502]

All the ABBA music's one very wonderful and divine spiritual experience ever .

[@dinodasbunce6224]

This is 'one' of my favorite ABBA songs. I wrote 'one' of my favorites because so many ABBA songs are my favorites.

[@cw-crazyworld8259]

this is not only a pop-song, this is music on a higher level...genius ABBA...this song could have been used for their musical CHESS...also genius music on a higher level.... ABBA forever!!

[@michlkwitz]

Bits of it do appear in some Chess tracks -- I think "Anthem" specifically.

[@a._wesker]

It is similar to Where I Want To Be from Chess.

[@sensitivedogs]

Definitely not pop

[@kevhynaleks2631]

Since Arrival album ABBA step by step left the field of pop…

[@DannX68]

Such a beautiful song ❤️

[@mikesmithson6805]

My favorite Frida lead ABBA song! Her vocal performance here is superb! You have to understand that when they recorded the visitors album the boys were moving away from creating the typical 3 minute pop song of the few years past. They wanted something different that is why ILTMS sounded very different from what they've done. Musical theater is the obvious choice for Bjorn and Benny and i think ILTMS is a great recording by the band.

[@supastah68]

Like An Angel Passing Through My Room is my favorite Frida vocal

[@h.sch.5717]

"The Visitors" album is a pure masterpiece! All songs are at least very good, but some are just perfect! ABBA produced true art with this LP! I compare the elegance of this album with the elegance of Mona Lisa! Maybe this is THE best album of all time, maybe it is just one of the best albums of all time...

[@Dadak]

One of ABBA´s greatest songs ever!

[@AzoreanZionist]

Frida's voice is also very strong in «Put On Your White Sombrero»,,,, and Agnetha joins in very nicely. 👍🎶🎤✨

[@clarkkent8173]

Abba’s Bohemian Rhapsody

[@danbike9]

This song is for the more sophisticated. Their masterpiece.

[@Boybilly]

I'm happy you reacted on this song which is absolutely beautiful

[@Spider-ll5tr]

This is (as so many have already said) a complete masterpiece and is definitely theatrical and most definitely the early works of CHESS. Genius! 😊

[@tool_fighter]

It's about the power of music....

[@lolaclyde7915]

This song is haunting. It’s so deep and beautiful. To me, the Visitors album is their best by far.

[@kattahj]

This is one of my favourite ABBA songs, both music and lyrics. That beginning, "I'm hearing images, I'm seeing songs no poet has ever painted," gives me chills.

[@dont.wilson2121]

Agreed!

[@mrfantastic8451]

OMG ... I'm glad you're not listening to only their biggest hits, but also other, little-known songs. You are the best 😁 I can recommend you the song "Kisses of Fire". This is one of their most surprising songs. I hope you like it like me 😊🤩 And if you want to listen to something unusual, you should listen to "Disillusion" because it is the only song written only by Agnetha and "Suzy Hang Around" because it is the only song in which the leading voice there's Benny (he's a piano player).

[@michielrampaart9565]

love kisses of fire

[@michielrampaart9565]

you know what non abbasong sung by agneta I also like? Her version of Frida Boccara's Un Jour, un enfant....in swedish. Sov gott min lilla van. It is sooo beautifull, full of love for her child

[@opicatchu2164]

Wow what a song!!! 😍😍😍

[@richardbishop6055]

Sadly overlooked is right. This song has several beautiful passages that are so reminiscent of a couple of songs from Chess. It is a real winner.

[@ernestocroas4081]

Abba for ever!!!!

[@Mark-zu6oz]

I love the way they end this song - perfect.

[@miltonpablosv5813]

What a beautiful song ! Amazing!

[@mkartmkart6335]

My absolute Favourite of all Abba Catalogue !! When Abba is nostalgic, they are like NONE else. Hello from Sweden btw

[@alejandroerne2771]

Derect don't forget The Song The Visitors.

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Yes, a big tune in the gay discos of the era. Because of the high energy beat and the subject matter, I guess. And because it's very COMPELLING. You listen with baited breath.

[@dlind1985]

This is masterly made and done. Not many could write something like this and also play the way they do. I heard this here the 1st time - and now again: I cannot stop listening to this song. (It reminds me somehow about "The Phantom of the Opera" in style.) A great joy for me (& you) is this man and how he reacts to it! *Dereck adds zest to the listening adventure!* Thank you for the meal!

[@josue-joshuacordova3847]

Another great song from The Visitors.... their best album.

[@paulatelling9514]

A musical masterpiece! Great reaction to an amazing song! I have loved listening and singing along to this since 1981!

[@leilashampoo1408]

This is the song Frida chose to end his 2021 interview at BBC2 radio.

[@martincharron2399]

Great song from ABBA. Frida’s voice at her best !! You should be listening to MOVE ON, ANGELEYES and HEAD OVER HEELS .......the latest being probably the most joyful song from their « The Visitors « album.

[@JCWiley2300]

I think this song would throw anyone who had no experience with European musical theater or cabaret.

[@glennmetters3637]

Dear Dereck love your ABBA journey and watching you realise their musical genius,please allow yourself the magical experience of Move On another track that is pure genius.

[@martincharron2399]

MOVE ON is also my favorite song from ABBA along with LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME......

[@patrickperdacher9074]

Frida is the best

[@karlturner9038]

One of the most complicated songs ABBA created ever throughout their career.

[@renekoenders1937]

Wow, thanks for reviewing this song and practically the entire Visitors album. It's my all-time favorite album of any artist. It's great to see you discovering it.

[@DereckReacts]

It's an amazing album, that aged so well

[@ramonsobreira8061]

No words.

I always thought "I let the music speak" sounds like a mini operatta-musical-piece. I love to sing along it though, but it´s damned hard and I always fail. Lol.

[@user-mv6he6gl8m]

It sounds like a foreplay to Chess and Kristina...

@@user-mv6he6gl8m Yeah, in a way it was the prologue to what they did later, after "The Visitors". It was more than pop music and not yet a musical. But this song actually is a musical song, I think.

[@mortenBP]

Bjørn and Benny early started writing musicals. They brought in a few songs from a minimusical called "The girl with the golden hair" in the album simply called "Abba, The Album" from 1977. "Thank You For The Music" is one of them.

@@mortenBP That's true. And also "I wonder". Both are actually musical songs, splendid songs that became classics.

[@sensitivedogs]

Keep trying!

[@kevhynaleks2631]

This song trying to explaining how a music could creating, the process of composing…. This type of songs are very rare in the world of music….A kind of very deep confession from Benny and Bjorn… Yes, theatrical, with the highest possible quality…

[@chrisblyth4072]

When the boys wrote the music for the girls, they would write it with either of the girls in mind as some songs would've been written in a style specific to the voice required. This is a beautiful ballad with a lot of pictorial imagery woven into the lyrics. A truly mature, deep and unusual song for Abba. Listening to it a number of times the meaning comes thru.

[@Christina-sf2fn]

An absolute masterpiece❤️❤️and Frida’s vibrato is unique❤️❤️

[@Emmenem68]

They started recording sessions for 'The Visitors' album right after Benny & Frida had announced their divorce. The sadness of it all coloured much of the atmosphere on the new album, with most songs dealing with regret, loss, loneliness and melancholy. For the first time on an ABBA album, Agnetha & Frida did not sing in unison in the verses on any song. Also, unlike the previous albums, 'The Visitors' had very few potential singles. ABBA was becoming less accessible and less commercial. It also showed in its chart performance. Although the album shot to the top in most territories, its chart life was much shorter than usual. The first single 'One Of Us' was a major chart hit but with the second single 'Head Over Heels', commercial decline set in on most of the singles charts as well, by not getting into the top ten (or even top twenty) in a lot of countries. This was unheard of for ABBA, especially in countries like the UK and Germany, where every ABBA single had been a guaranteed top five hit. The album sleeve for 'The Visitors' also gave a clue that they were drifting apart. For the first time they were not portrayed as a close unit, but standing apart, as four individuals, as if they didn't even acknowledge each other's presence. Benny & Bjorn were keen to start writing a musical and you could say that 'I Let The Music Speak' was their first venture in this territory. It's not really a pop song, with its changing tempos and moods. It's a song that would be better suited in musical theatre than on a pop album. That being said, Frida delivers a masterful vocal performance and Bjorn's lyrics are profound and poetic. The song is one of my big favourites and I'm glad it was included. According to ABBA - The Complete Recording Sessions, Benny, Bjorn and Frida have all singled out this particular track as one of their five favourite ABBA tracks a few years ago. On a side note: 'The Day Before You Came' was not part of the original 'The Visitors' album. It was released as a stand-alone single almost a year after the album (and at the time included on a greatest hits package). On later CD issues of 'The Visitors' it was added as one of the bonus tracks.

[@mikesmithson6805]

Very good insights for this song. Thank you.

[@Mark-zu6oz]

I always thought the whole album had a bleak feel to it, like being outside on a cold day late in the year. Still, it is a favorite.

[@michielrampaart9565]

as was under attack

[@edned5504]

An unassuming banger of a song this is. Yes it is theatrical, but that's where the similarity with Money Money Money starts and ends. It's such a beautiful song, but you must listen to the lyrics to get this song. It's tough, requires a great deal of decoding and needs effort. It's not song you'd understand in one sitting.

[@dragpalace]

I hear strongly in this song that Björn and Benny probably were already working on a musical (Chess) when they wrote "I let the music speak". Indeed this song sounds theatrical like it was a part of a musical. When the Visitors came out, no one knew that is would be their last album. But when ABBA broke up as a group and Björn and Benny came with their Chess musical, everything fell on its place .

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Ooh, what a fantastic deep cut (as you youngsters call them). This is basically a stage musical tune, indicative of the way Benny and Björn went afterwards. (There's even a part that sounds a bit like One Night In Bangkok - another strong rec, by the way.) It's also initimidatingly *musical* in the sense that it takes several listens to fully take in such a complex melody and arrangement.

[@glebeboi]

The entire The Visitors album is a break away from their other albums with a more complex adult sound to it. You are right regarding the song has a theatrics sound to it as Benny & Bjorn were wanting to create a musical score and as such, it needs to be meaningful and not so boppy like pop songs. The lyrics are also telling a story, creating an image that best suits something you would hear in a stage production. Frida's voice is totally suited to this song and being trained in opera allowed her to carry the notes the way she did. Lines like “I’m hearing images, I’m seeing songs, no poet has ever painted.” as well as "and in the dead of night, I find myself a blind man in some ancient valley." (not finds a blind man). You're also right about the drum sounds creating a type of marching beat which is also noticeable on a few other tracks esp Soldiers. The Visitors is my favourite album of Abba mostly due to the composition of the songs, the more mature lyrics & singing and the levels of different instruments being more broadway stage production orchestra.

[@ryszardwrobel4409]

Piękna piosenka

[@bobtrouper]

Bjorn is trying to explain in the song where he gets his lyrical ideas from, the ABBA backing tracks’ were recorded, and Bjorn would listen to it over and over, and he would say, eventually the song would tell you a story. “I’m hearing images, I’m seeing songs, no poet has ever painted” Benny said he would’ve used this song in their Musical ‘Chess’ if ABBA hadn’t recorded it.

[@cannedmusic]

Yeah, but just think what their music would have been like in 81 if this had been the B side to Dancing Queen back in 76.

[@theKarstenR]

Please do the title track next. It's my favorite song off the album. And again something totally different.

[@marvelboy74]

You are so right on all accounts, waltz, march, theatrical. You missed Frida's big breath phrasing. I also love the end when she sings "No expectations, no questions why." We hear so many tone colors from Frida in this one.

[@MariaCarabin]

You can defo tell that the guys had "musicals" on their mind... Beautiful lyric by Björn.

[@arquimedesxxi6419]

I asked for this song to react on in your last ABBA video "Like an angel passing through my room", and here it is. Thank you Derek! My suggestions are: "The way old friends do" by ABBA and HEART "Stairway to heaven" Led Zeppelin-Kennedy Center honors. Thank you for reading the comments!

[@johnmonahan7729]

Please review the song "The Visitors"!!! Best song on the album by far

[@thisworldofwater8017]

Very Balearic.

[@Mark-zu6oz]

I thought "Soldiers" had a similar bleak feel to it.

[@Mark-zu6oz]

@My Name Is Dito I think it is among their best songs.

[@uteorgahs815]

Ein Meisterstück, so etwas gibt es heute gar nicht mehr, leider!!! Derek's Reaktion ist süß, gefällt mir sehr gut 👍👌✌️‼️

[@cannedmusic]

Ja, vollständig zu jedem Aspekt Ihres Kommentars.

[@kazbaz8645]

Haunting ....

[@stevehulse4005]

I think you will be blown away with the title track from the album The Visitors. It has all the hallmarks you like: dance, synth and excellent lyrics.

[@liamjaezzemangubat191]

Perfectly suit to musical like sound of music.

[@cannedmusic]

Your mic is so good, my speakers and sound system are better than I thought...(I had to pause the video to listen to the police/emergency vehicle passing by my house, turned out it was on your recording...LOL). As several others have been encouraging, listen to the title track, it's the only ABBA piece that doesn't use the typical rhyme they, and most other groups, used in the lyrics, and it has an early industrial feel.

[@vanjalavoie550]

Very over-the-top. Perfect.

[@robertmacdonald4233]

Frida displaying her singing chops

[@robertdinmore1971]

You need to react to the song “the visitors”. And then go to the album Voulez Vous for “As Good As New” and “If It Wasn’t For The Nights”

[@thisworldofwater8017]

If It Wasn't For The Nights - Abba's tribute to Philly disco. Fantastic tune. Should have been a single. Frida kills it.

[@dragpalace]

yes!! The Visitors is also one of my favorite.

[@jerrycote659]

He’s already done a reaction video for “The Visitors”

[@linkey03]

The king has lost his crown 🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@michielrampaart9565]

love if it wasn´t for the nights. A great agneta song

[@jamesbachmann7376]

I think it's Bjorn and Benny's attempt at growing beyond just a pop song. They of course were striving to write musicals. This has that kind of quality.

[@lolaclyde7915]

if I were to rank my top 5 ABBA songs this would be included.

[@19Edurne]

I think you should listen again... The title says it all; it's a song about the suggestive power of music, able to create images in the mind and transport you to places.

[@davidneumann3527]

Waiting for your reaction of Abba should I laugh or cry ;)

[@joelsondiedrichs9543]

Great job. 👏👏👏