First Time Hearing ABBA - Me And I

[@johnwalsh7578]

ABBA..is the reason..why us olders say... music was better in our time....Thank you ABBA..

[@johnsramek3905]

I love how Frida sings so choppy at the starts, it goes well with the synth 😄👍I remember listening to this on cassette for years until I had Souper Trouper on CD, I don't think I ever got the LP. and iirc Me and I was like the last song on side A, you'd flip the cassette over, and the first song on side B was Happy New Year. I don't know if it was because it was on cassette instead of LP, but Souper Trouper sounded different from earlier Abba albums, almost like impending sadness. when The Visitors came out, the transition from bubbly, fun, young love Abba to a more mature, serious, dour Abba was evident 😟

[@christianterraes8334]

I love l love this song merci Tyler and Marissa 🙋👍🙏

[@supastah68]

Frida can do magic with her voice, there were no new “technologies” in 1980.

[@bpfromowc]

ABBA singing “The Way Old Friend Do” (live in London) will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

[@tuijakarttunen9164]

Agree 100%.

[@alexioverdo5225]

An epic concert closer and a great anthem to friendship.Lyrics are so simple yet so strong.

[@aeproductionstm1150]

Agreeeee!

[@hovergrl]

I LOVE this song!!! Frida’s vocals are great and the synths are heavily displayed making it sound very “grand”. Benny does love his synths (he said so himself 😂)

[@Bandido894]

He had just got new (Yamaha GX-1) synthesizer at that time, which can clearly hear used through this album!

[@80ssynthfan48]

"Expansive" is the word I would use. Love that GX-1 sound.

[@alejandrosantanaborquez917]

Bang a boomerang (oficial video) You won't regret it Greetings from Chile 🇨🇱

[@craignotgreg547]

I agree. And it's so much better with the video, back when they were so young and their joy of being so in love is so apparent. It's such a peppy song. The song (especially the video) never fail to cheer me up! Do it. Just do it!

[@christianoazzuro6711]

Agree!Just do this plz!

[@aperinich]

yassss!! Finally. I love this song so so much

[@Melb1]

ABBA at the height of their powers! This album was perfection. This song in particular is a classic ABBA track! Great sounds, great vocals and lyrics!

[@ralphhendriks1460]

Me and I has always been one of my favorite ABBA songs, it could easily have been a big hit if released as a single. Frida's vocals are so good!

[@nellies]

One of my favorite songs! The lyrics is so good and relatable and Frida sounds amazing and the harmonies are stunning and it's just so catchy and I love the weird robot part lol. Such a masterpiece, very underrated I think. I wish it would've been a single and then become a hit.

[@Shadi092986]

The beats of this song is so damn catchy. The girls' vocal harmonizing of "everyone's a freak" is so good! Please have Bjorn's "Another Town, Another Train" or "Two for the Price of One" next. For the whole group, "Tiger" is also a great one.

[@bettinafischer3896]

Abba...my love and my life...ich liebe sie seit über 40 Jahren 😍

[@brandoncruz3102]

On of the most underrated for sure, this one and Elaine are my pop songs to listen to from this album

[@gustavoguh4102]

omg, that's my fave ABBA song! the best part for me is the "what jekyll must have been to HI-I-I-HIIIIDE!" eargasms, hands down. amazing reaction guys 💚💚

[@bjorkeskog]

Not many react to this great song because it wasn't released as a single. One of my favorite songs from the album. The synths and harmonies..just perfect

[@tommyeriksson6044]

Loved this song from Day one!! Fridas voice ❤️

[@Tom_McMurtry]

:)) Kisses Of Fire by ABBA and My Mama Said by ABBA are some older ones that have an infectious energy that I think you'll like. My Mamma Said has an excellent baseline.

[@ingvarjensen1088]

Oh yes, I wonder how they'll like "Kisses Of Fire"!

[@claudeghanimeh1728]

I love this song 🎵 Thank you guys💜💜

[@mickeefreeman2898]

Every tune abba produces....is so different ...from all other's.= . _ the gift that keeps on giving ..! X.

[@jamiew6438]

Nice to see another reaction . Would you consider Dance(While The Music Still Goes On) for the next video plz dear girl and boyo x

[@birgittae9046]

Thanks for playing this song. Long time ago, a lot of memories arises 🎶🎶🥰

[@Tom_McMurtry]

This one always gets my head nodding. Love going for walks or runs with my headphones when this comes on, or of course just playing the super trouper album. Love the lyrics too

[@johnlargan6045]

Definitely try to check out Dick Cavett Meets ABBA from 1981. It contains a half-hour live concert where they do this song.

[@hahatoldyouso]

One of my favourite ABBA songs

[@jimhoppe8317]

This song reminds me of Tyler and Marissa reacting to the ABBA songs. You never know which one of their "persons" will show up.....their 'Me" or their "I"!!! And that's why I ALWAYS look forward to their reviews!! So unpredictable!! "Dance (While the Music Still Goes On)" and "Another Town, Another Train" are two early ABBA songs that I believe are worth reacting to.

[@marissa6805]

I actually love this comment! We don't know which one will show up either 😂

[@jimhoppe8317]

@@marissa6805 🤣😄😂 Too funny!!!

[@Zentrix-24]

Another fav song I listened to alot when it was released. Just a great rhythm with great lyrics and production. Also Abbas staple heavy drum beat added to the sound.......

[@herrbonk3635]

You should really listen to the live version of this, it's just as good. A small concert of perhaps 5-7 songs was recorded live with audience in Stockholm for American Dick Cavett Show in 1981.

[@helenpeterson]

I second that, great segment.

[@Earcandy73]

I love this song!

[@stevemariman8769]

Abba always exploring sound and new songwriting etc. You guys might enjoy another Abba B-side (from the days when a pop single [A-side] was issued on a 45 rpm vinyl record, with another song on the B-side) song, "Elaine." The beginning is awesome, and you know you're in for a ride!

[@miguelvilchez1854]

Again, congrats dear fellows for appreciating good music like ABBA's. Miguel Lima Peru

[@Payne2view]

Another excellent track from "Super Trouper" led by Friday. Notice the "everyone's a freak" doesn't have the effect on it the last time around, perhaps just to clarify the lyric? In spite of it being so modern for the time (it sounded so futuristic & 'space age' to me back then) the structure is quite conventional, including the key change for the final chorus. Can't help anticipating the opening bars of "Happy New Year" at the end. I've heard that album in its original sequence so many times, perhaps because my dad bought it on tape cassette. Also another track that can be great to practice guitar shredding to.

[@Bandido894]

This is like a fanfare for 80's on it right beginning of 1980 mostly because (Benny's new) synthesizer and vocoder used!

[@cannedmusic]

Yeah, I liked this song upon first listening when I got the LP for Christmas in 80. I keep mentioning you may like Watch Out and My Mama Said, from their Waterloo release. One is really dark, one is an "OMG, is that ABBA?"

[@lenaengell8528]

Fantastic song! Thank you for your reaction.

[@davidcowan4378]

Great choice, this is such a great Abba album track.

[@syediy]

Nice reaction to another great ABBA song.................you should try to react to "Like an angle passing through my room", "Should i laugh or cry", "Love light", "He is your brother" and "Elaine" next or at least try to include these tracks in your forthcoming reaction list. Thanks

[@lorrainekitson1362]

Frida rocks, love your reaction, gets the head nodding, the feet tapping, so catchy, just love it! Please react to BANG-A-BOOMERANG it’s awesome! 🤩 👩‍🦰🧔👩🧔‍♂️ 😘😘

[@randonjack6184]

Please react to "Kisses of Fire." Sending greetings and love all the way from the Marshall Islands! ❤🇲🇭

[@christianoazzuro6711]

Yes but the famous ABBA in Switzerland tv version!

[@CraigMcKee]

I'm anxious for you to do Honey Honey, which was an early hit (at least in Canada). So catchy.

[@nielsulriksrensen9818]

How about 'Should I Laugh or Cry'? B-side of One of US, but far more experimental and alternative. Great vocals put to the forefront.

[@DC-vv5ii]

Another under rated masterpiece. Loved this since I heard it in 1980.

[@alexioverdo5225]

ABBA- live ( THE MOVIE) next.Time for you to watch the masses reacting to them.Their impact to us while being at your age.

[@bettinafischer3896]

Da krieg ich gleich gänsehaut 🤩

[@viktorthefirst]

next week, Should I laugh or cry, pls. :) another great lead by Frida

[@stephanburgess654]

I just made a comment on another video you guys reviewed on ABBA. A suggestion for you is to try and get hold of ABBA the Movie. It was totally recorded in Australia during their Australian tour. I am in the movie but even for my friends it's hard to see me as I was in the crowed of 90,000 people in the Audience standing in the rain watching ABBA perform, and they never missed a beat during the whole concert.

[@anotherview7937]

Nice track. Like an angel passing through my room by this group on their final album is a masterpiece in melancholy, otherworldly, like someone in an apartment in the winter of their life seeing their life replayed in the 'dying embers' as it snows below. Love and loss, nobody does it better.

[@Spiritof1955]

I have to agree about the clarity of the vocals. I've heard this song many times, but it's the first time I've noticed Bjorn's backing vocal on the chorus. The strange electronic vocal at the end of the chorus makes use of a Vocoder. If you want to hear more use of a Vocoder I strongly recommend listening to ELO's The Diary Of Horice Wimp.

[@frankjoi6403]

Frida doing the main vocal, both Agnetha and Frida doing the choruses. Very good reaction as always. Here is the live version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWnXent6hc2tZrs A suggestion for the next ABBA song: "Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) Absolute classic. Their early albums are full of gems.

[@swifty8503]

Fab song, one of the best on this album. Please react to Like An Angel Passing Through My Room next, its a masterpiece!

[@terrykemp1876]

I love Tuesday!

[@claudeghanimeh1728]

Time to react to ABBA'S" VOULEZ VOUS"

[@terrykemp1876]

That one's been done.

[@claudeghanimeh1728]

Thank you

[@Bjorn9284]

thre is an athletic wear line, called AND I. And I think of this Abba song evertime I see it LOL! Who looks better on a clothing line, than ABBA!!!! :)

[@dreasbn]

On Super Trouper they started to shift already away from the organic sounds and became more synths based and almost electronic. Lay All Your Love On Me, Me And I and the best examples.. and they played with voicedeoders or how it's called on both tracks.. the 1981 Dick Cabett live version is worth a listen. They lyrics are about having an "extreme" both sides character like fire and water at the same time. Good and evil, shy and outgoing all in all contracdictional.. First time Frida sings in that style. a bit pressed vocals and her shining velvet voice like Super Trouper... she extended that direction of playing with her voice on The Visitors even more and with her solo records. If you look at her catalogue from the 60's to 1996, she did almost everything with her voice possible.

[@JCWiley2300]

Vocoder.

[@dreasbn]

@@JCWiley2300 yep, that's the term i was missing out on...

[@timderry8458]

And the vocoder is used again on ‘Two For The Price Of One’ on The Visitors album when Bjorn says “Alice Whiting”…

[@whatup6350]

Frida really attacks the lyrics with what she called her inner feeling of being a tiger...which inspired their designer Uwe to create their famous outfits with the cats designs. They credited their whole team with their success.

[@Payne2view]

That "nothing new of course" part especially. Frida is great at bold dramtic interpretations of lyrics.

[@Lisa-M]

This song has nothing to do with the creation of the cat outfits. It didn't exist when the cat outfits came out. Or did I understand you wrong?

[@Payne2view]

@@Lisa-M WhatUp can say for themselves but if you don't mind me sticking my nose in, I think they were not saying the song inspired the predating outfits. I think it was just a reference to Frida's view of her vocal style inspiration, which predates this song, inspired the costume designer and is once again, years after, present in "Me and I".

[@Lisa-M]

@@Payne2view Ah, okay, that can be possible. Thanks.

[@whatup6350]

@@Lisa-M Uwe took Frida's statement that she sometimes feels like a tiger and ran with it in his own way. The only connection between Uwe's creation and the song is that part of Frida's personality seems to come out in the way she delivers the lyrics...her vocals are fierce as a tiger in this song, and many others, as well. Maybe, I wanted to say a few extra things about Frida, since I know Marissa is a big Frida fan. Love your thumbnail...if that's what that photo of Frida beside your user-name is called :)

[@mikesmithson6805]

Please react to ABBA - the last video. It's so funny and so many easter eggs

[@teromattila72]

I am an A.

[@alexioverdo5225]

Hadn't thought about it!I'm sure both TYLER,MARISSA will love this and have great fun!

[@mikesmithson6805]

@@alexioverdo5225 yeah and the video is done with the fpur members full support and cooperation

[@birgittalagerstrom6264]

I think you need to look at the documentary about ABBA. You will learn a lot of there produktion. Great reaction!

[@alexioverdo5225]

Abba documentary is a MUST!

[@fernandomunoz3180]

so underrated song :(

[@marcelotto6825]

I watched a KZbin video a few days ago of the top 50 Abba songs on Spotify. Very interesting list. Maybe you should listen to the list to check which songs you haven't covered yet.

[@martinbatallan3734]

Deberían reaccionar a ese video y verían las canciones a las que no reaccionaron aun

[@martinbatallan3734]

Ya no me gustan sus reacciones como califican con baja nota a grandes temas como por ajemplo ahora a ' me and i" la verdad no me dan ganas de pedir reacciones otros KZbin q saben mucho de música les a encantado

[@martinbatallan3734]

@German Morawski una cosa es una critica a otra la falta de respeto mucha veces dicen no entiendo y ponen baja nota si te fijas el otros youtubers investigan y saben d lo q hablan antes de hacer críticas

[@joewhite6421]

Agneta and Frida were more than singers but they were World Class vocalists..

[@christianoazzuro6711]

You still haven't done yet their early banger HONEY HONEY that was also popular again after The Mamma Mia theatrical/movie .Also 'Bang A Boomerang''s fun video.Good early Abba track too.

[@craignotgreg547]

Both are great. Bang has got my vote. Do it Tyler, do it! (But it needs to be the video). The girls are so cute and bouncy, especially Frida.

[@edned5504]

Is that a suppressed yawn at 2'48" TCC? Great song, Frida's brill vocals of course. The vocals are clear, but not any more than in Money, Money, Money for example, or Knowing Me, Knowing You.

[@robertwest5141]

Strong ELO vibes in this track.

[@robertpaisley8643]

Great song ..loved your passion..😋🔥not sure if yr friend got into it !..

[@martinbatallan3734]

frida tells you stories like no one else with that tone and her voice envelops you Pleasw reac to ..... i have a dream ....should l laugh or cry

[@sds6303]

The Super Trouper album was released in 1980, so it’s definitely later ABBA lol

[@petersinnott2114]

Dance while the music goes on from Waterloo album you might like it the guys sing to

[@iznone]

Dear Boy and nice girl you have never heard syths of early 80's - there is so much "weird things" for you!

[@danbike9]

Frida channels the great Ertha Kitt.

[@medmon3476]

Very astute observation 🐱🐾

[@christianoazzuro6711]

Agree!

[@mikesmithson6805]

Here is ABBAs studio albums in chronological order. Ring Ring (1973) Waterloo (1974) ABBA (1975) Arrival (1976) The Album (1977) Voulez-Vous (1979) Super Trouper (1980) The Visitors (1981) Voyage (2021)

[@nealwhaley63]

It’s not surprising they tried out the synth approach since groups like Duran Duran and The Human League were making their ascent at the time.

[@mikesmithson6805]

@German Morawski agree

[@80ssynthfan48]

To be honest it sounds a little like they took a slight cue from Heart of Glass, but a great song none the less.

[@iznone]

I am sure: you want to be born 50+ years before now!

[@The_Jupiter2_Mission]

Damn! I was hoping you would do the trainwreck that is Two For The Price Of One from The Visitors. The one thing I liked less about Super Trouper was the overuse of synth sounds. Granted it was a period where Benny over indulged with every new whiz keyboard because it was the in thing of the time. It would have been nice and a lot more interesting to use more natural brass in this track instead of the fake synth sound. You never get tired of hearing original instruments but fake sounds like the keyboard here overstay their welcome when there is too much of it. There's too much of it here and it gets repetitive. This backing track soundscape has a similar sound to Sombrero.

[@brandoncruz3102]

Well how misterious i actually love synths and I dont think this is repetitive at all, i have listened this song many times and i dont get tired

[@brunoliddle]

I quite like the synth sounds on a number of tracks from this album - I guess it forms part of the soundscape for the album (in the same way the previous album was pure disco, and the one before had influences of the laidback California-sound). Though the intro to Elaine possibly takes the synth effects a bit far...

[@badlongon525]

Waahhhhhuuuutttt????? 😂🤣

[@iznone]

I just want to say ........ Marissa is amazing!!!

[@timperry700]

Please react to ABBA’s pop classics like Ring Ring and Kisses Of Fire 🔥

[@helenpeterson]

Please do the Dick Cavett live show with ABBA.

[@ursgeiser6570]

This is a catchy and simple pop song on Super Trouper the only one that anticipates 80s synthi pop; of course later the title track The Visitors, a masterpiece. After the media and the old-Mamma Mia-SOS fans critisme about Voulez Vous and the disco tracks (certainly incomprehensible for young people today) ABBA did a traditional POP-tunes album Super Trouper, thought long the best, but a liittle too musically traditional. At that time it was the best decision to win back fans, what the commercial sucess approved. Suggestion: for me one of two (of the 5 best albums in series) most terrible ABBA skip song LOVERS/of Voulez Vous. The modern production technic -- as Melissa said about Me And I - for me wasnt working; it's so over-produced that both ladies voices lost their magics, Disney-Dukes--like. A few fans will write "so funky" .....🤩 . Tastes are so different 😛. Fridas solo single Something Going On: genious modern produced/and wrote by Phil Collins; US hit, banger in Mid-Europa, not UK.

[@mikesmithson6805]

This is about bipolar disorder? Or split personality

[@alexioverdo5225]

Split personality.That's why the music has a jolly flowerish chorus and some kinda dark/more shadowy bridges.It's Abba's bittersweet symphony.

[@christianoazzuro6711]

I guess,split personality....'we're like sun and rainy weather , sometimes we're a hit together,ME and I'

[@eduardooscar309]

"Me and I" (1980) song included in the album Super Trouper performed live in the TV special Dick Cavett meets ABBA (1981) honestly, this is in my opinion the weakest song on the Super Trouper album, 5pts for me one of the very few ABBA songs where I don't like the vocal part as it turns out, with an inconvenient ending but I like the synth and part of the chorus That's why for me is ok, it's acceptable but nothing more, could be better abd ABBA have better songs in these album my next suggestion is "Tiger" (1976) from "Arrival" album or "Bang a Boomerang" (1975) from "ABBA" album both have nice official video I hope to see you in next ABBA vídeo my best regards to You from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 South America

[@eduardooscar309]

it's great to be able to express when you don't like a song not all ABBA songs are impeccable and/or we can all like them each one have to be objective and not obsequious and the same happens with other groups or singers

[@eduardooscar309]

@German Morawski in my opinion I don't agree about "The way all friends do" I like it, in my Top5 of "Super Trouper" album

[@eduardooscar309]

@AK I don't agree, but it's all about test I like so much "Happy new year" in my Top3 of Super Trouper album but not because it's Agnetha in leads there are some songs with Agnetha in lead that I don't like so much, like "The day before you came" or "Lay all your love on me" but for the most of ABBA fans both are masterpieces, and I have to respect these another of Agnetha in leads that I don't like so much is "Kisses of fire" (and Agnetha is my favourite ABBA member)

[@eduardooscar309]

​@marvinquezada7203 I like the "Super trouper" album in my Top 3 of all ABBA albums (before Voyage arrives and change all rankings of the fans)

[@billyporter9869]

Try to connect your audio directly to the video :-) thanks

[@scottfarley3644]

WHAT!?????

[@rudigerritterfeld5493]

Kann der Typ nichts Anderes als " what? " sagen?

[@frankly-he1kf]

Blondie stole the guitar riff for heart of glass...