I've always pictured it as being about this unpopular girl who is crowned homecoming or prom queen and has the night of her life. Sort of a disco fairy tale. :)

I have never considered a meaning or story to Dancing Queen by Abba, but the record does and will always remind me of that long hot summer back in 1976.

A common misconception about 'Dancing Queen' is some folk think is was written to commemorate the 1976 wedding of King Carl Gustav of Sweden and his new bride...

Yes, Abba did play at the wedding and they did play 'Dancing Queen', but the song was written a good year earlier...

And the new queen was in her thirties at the time...not exactly 'young, sweet and only seventeen!'

"Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine"

Dancing with a tambourine, does bring gypsy connotations?

I just thought she loved to dance and was so good that she could choose any partner she wanted.

everyone loved to watch her.

otherwise, just more fab pop from Abba

It was a song about disco dancing (what everyone was writing songs about back then)
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It's just a really great, fun pop song. Still retains its freshness after 31 years

I always thought it was about a repressed young girl who wants to go out partying and tempting older men.

"Dancing queen, feel the beat from the tambourine"

Dancing with a tambourine, does bring gypsy connotations?


gypsy or hippie....although if you're familiar with the film Dangerous Minds then the tambourine man was a drug dealer so... okay even I am too tired to follow this train of thought.

It's just a really great, fun pop song. Still retains its freshness after 31 years

I always thought it was about a repressed young girl who wants to go out partying and tempting older men.



like the music version of  Looking for Mr Goodbar?

gypsy or hippie....although if you're familiar with the film Dangerous Minds then the tambourine man was a drug dealer so... okay even I am too tired to follow this train of thought.
I was reflecting on the Gypsy Dance at the beginning of Act 2 of Carmen, the gypsys dance with increasing pace with tambourines.

I have never seen "Dangerous Minds", but you do bring to mind the song "Mr Tambourine Man".

I was reflecting on the Gypsy Dance at the beginning of Act 2 of Carmen, the gypsys dance with increasing pace with tambourines.

I have never seen "Dangerous Minds", but you do bring to mind the song "Mr Tambourine Man".


there is a point in the film where they deconstruct Dylan and Dylan.... Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan so at one point they analyze Mr. Tambourine Man and deduce that it is about a drug dealer

Is Dancing Queen about 3 or 4 minutes long?

Is Dancing Queen about 3 or 4 minutes long?


3:49 on the "Gold" album.

3:49 on the "Gold" album.
Thanks, I knew that someone would know.

she just was in the mood to dance and have the time of her life. but disco clubbing at 17  :-\\  sounds a little young to be going out to clubs. at that age, the dances were usually school dances in the gym

she just was in the mood to dance and have the time of her life. but disco clubbing at 17  :-\\  sounds a little young to be going out to clubs. at that age, the dances were usually school dances in the gym
May be the minimum age is lower in Sweden for disco club dancing?

May be the minimum age is lower in Sweden for disco club dancing?
that's quite possible, but then maybe Abba just made up that story & wrote a song about it. although some kids do go out and do whatever they want and don't always tell their parents like I did.  ::)

I think maybe you guys are reading too much into it.  Badfinger is closest.  It is how I felt when I was 17 and got on the dance floor, all dressed up, loved the music, and just had fun.

she just was in the mood to dance and have the time of her life. but disco clubbing at 17  :-\\  sounds a little young to be going out to clubs. at that age, the dances were usually school dances in the gym


Maybe they were doing it for the British audience? I started clubbing at the weekend when I was 15.  By the age of 18 it was old hat and boring!

she just was in the mood to dance and have the time of her life. but disco clubbing at 17  :-\\  sounds a little young


not in sweden, my friend.  ;)


this song really is not that deep.

On wikipedia:

""Dancing Queen" has a relatively straight-forward lyric/storyline; it's about a seventeen-year-old girl having a good time on a Friday night. Not fazed by the social pressures in her daily life as a teenager, all she wants to do is go out and look for a 'king' to dance with."

On wikipedia:

""Dancing Queen" has a relatively straight-forward lyric/storyline; it's about a seventeen-year-old girl having a good time on a Friday night. Not fazed by the social pressures in her daily life as a teenager, all she wants to do is go out and look for a 'king' to dance with."


Actually, having been a 17 year old dancing queen, she is more looking to make guys wish they were king, as opposed to finding one.

I always thought "Dancing Queen" was about a girl who was the queen of the dance floor, the queen of disco.

I always thought "Dancing Queen" was about a girl who was the queen of the dance floor, the queen of disco.




It is about all of us "Dancing Queens".  All of us at once.  :)

It is about all of us "Dancing Queens".  All of us at once.  :)
So if all the "Dancing Queens" gather on the dance floor all at once, there will be no room for the "Dance Kings"?

So if all the "Dancing Queens" gather on the dance floor all at once, there will be no room for the "Dance Kings"?


I have noticed that Dancing Kings of all ages derive great amounts of pleasure just watching 17 year old Dancing Queens

I have noticed that Dancing Kings of all ages derive great amounts of pleasure just watching 17 year old Dancing Queens
The Dancing Kings just sat there drinking and watching?

The Dancing Kings just sat there drinking and watching?




and scratching, farting, burping.......... ::)

and scratching, farting, burping.......... ::)


...ordering my drinks for the bar...

...ordering my drinks for the bar...


LOL ;D

Ever since I heard that Saddam Hussien liked Abba I always think of him dancing to that song in one of his palaces.

she just was in the mood to dance and have the time of her life. but disco clubbing at 17  :-\\  sounds a little young to be going out to clubs. at that age, the dances were usually school dances in the gym

Too young?  Not at all?  Too young for us guys?  Uh, yeah.
:(

Too young?  Not at all?  Too young for us guys?  Uh, yeah.
:(
It could be a school disco?