The winner takes it all

“The winner takes it all.” This was ABBA’s one of the most popular songs during the 70’s and also one of my mom’s favourite songs. But do you know that this song can be related to 2 things? The first is all about broken relationships and the second is all about principles. Let’s summarize these 2 things related to this song.

1.       Broken relationships

-          Why this song is all about broken relationships? This song is all about the divorce of the 2 band members of the group ABBA (Agnetha Faltskog & Bjorn Ulvaeus) in 1979. In real life, Agnetha was the one who broke up with Bjorn because whe didn’t want their relationship is in the eyes of public and she’s got sick of it. The composer, Bjorn Ulvaeus, said that this song takes the experience of a divorce. He is right. There wasn’t a winner or a loser and in every broken relationship, there is no win-win solution. Both parties are losers. The first stanza of the chorus “The winner takes it all, the loser standing small” means that in a broken relationship, there is no winner and both are standing small.

2.       Different principles (better related this to some PROs and ANTIs)

-          In some cases, this song is somewhat related to different principles. I will site a good example and that is the controversial “RH Bill”. There are PRO-RH advocates and the ANTI-RH advocates. Well, why did I relate this song to different principles like this issue? My answer:

A.      “The gods may throw a dice” – meaning that in destiny, there is no one who can make a dice turns out the way they want to.

B.      “Spectators of the show, always staying low” – the people who are watching what is happening will not get involve. Why? Who cares???? Maybe they will tell you, “If you don’t educate us about this issue, well, we don’t care what you are arguing about.”

C.      “The winner takes it all” – this line will be reserved for the one who will win in the debate about a certain issue.

In every game of life, there is always a winner and a loser. But we should also remember this line “I apologize, if it makes you feel bad.” Meaning we should also apologize in every not so good situations that we made.

The stanza “The winner takes it all, the loser has to fall” is simple and plain. So why should we complain? But I tell you, the loser will not always be a loser…